Guess this person’s salary: He is Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medicine at the prestigious University
of California, San Francisco. His salary is $0.
In recent years, I’ve observed an acceleration of jobs that
have been converted from paid to unpaid or pittance-paid: jobs to internships,
jobs to volunteer work, full-time well-paying secure jobs to temporary,
unbenefitted contract work.
My PsychologyToday.com article explores this a bit but, alas, doesn't propose solutions--because I can't think of any that seem realistic. Anyone care to suggest something?
Part of the problem is so many people take jobs for the need to survive. Its the wrong fit that spurs lawsuits and other challenges. An partial solution is the approach presented by the founder of betterworkworld.com
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