Permaterns

But aren’t there jobs for the hordes of serial interns? Don’t they just need to lower their sights? No one, after all, is forcing them into professions that make getting into Harvard look easy. Isn’t this just another example of the entitled Gen Y attitude that sees some work as beneath them?

The Week asks a bunch of questions about “permaterns” and attempts to answer them.

Edit: A longer version of the story originally appeared in The Washingtonian, which you can read here.

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