Plenty of UNPAID internships to go around at PCOM. Paid jobs? Does Minimum wage count?
A friend of mine recently received an e-mail blast from ‘career’ services at PCOM offering paid massage positions in NJ. I’m blogging about this because paid positions from PCOM are almost unheard of. My friend responded and received a curt response from Cynthia Neipris that the position is only open to current PCOM students. Is that why it was sent to the alumni distribution list? I guess even though she graduated PCOM, has an NJ massage license and is eminently qualified doesn’t count for much when PCOM has to parse out jobs because career services sucks.
That being said, I’d like to bring your attention to the NYT article that recently came out regarding the pushback employers are receiving when they depend on unpaid internships. People who peruse the PCOM NY job boards probably have to scroll for a few hours before finding PAID (minimum wage) jobs and then scroll until their computer equipment gives out to find anything remotely above minimum wage. Why would students pay $200K for a degree that only nets them unpaid internships and minimum wage jobs?
That brings me to my next topic: Gluttony. I think there are 2 kinds of gluttony in this world. Honest gluttony (where you treat yourself well from the fruits of your labor) and repugnant gluttony. Repugnant gluttony is what I feel PCOM NY engages in because they scam students into believing that they’ll earn a decent living when they graduate while charging them an arm and a leg. Employees at PCOM (I really hold the career services department to be the main culprits) are really fat (metaphorically, if not physically…but sometimes both) from repugnant gluttony.
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine NY Issues 
Posted by goodmedicineforbadschools on August 1, 2013 at 1:06 am
This reminds me of a very old, very classic SNL weekend update episode with Norm MacDonald relating the “worst job in America.” Since acupuncture schools are economic parasites, it stands to reason that the people who work to promote and get a paycheck from an acupuncture school should be at the top of the list of “most pathetic parasites feeding off of bigger parasites.” I think everyone should remind the people involved with acupuncture schools that what they do for money is NOT OK.
Posted by Anonymous on August 18, 2013 at 7:28 am
SEEMS MANYGEEK LESBIANS SIMPLY ARE TOO STUPID TO REALIZE THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY BACK THE GOV. LOANS.
Posted by Anonymous on August 19, 2013 at 12:17 pm
SNL needs to do a skit on this!