What do you do when you feel like the company you are interning for is just using you for the free labor and uses the excuse of “Money is tight for payment”? 

 I don’t want to feel like this anymore. I want to feel in love with the work I do and not feel as if I am obligated to someone who won’t even shell out any type of money for me. You’ve been in business for three years already. How are you telling me there is still money issues…… I honestly don’t know about this company. I mean, they’ve been featured in Vogue, Cosmo, Marie Claire, and a few international magazines, seen on a few celebrities but, what good is it when the people who help you (Or try to help you) are feeling as if they are just being used. 

They reassure me that they appreciate my help but, I honestly don’t feel that they do. I feel like I stuck in a bad relationship where there is no communication between each other. I really want to make this work and see if I can hold on longer in hopes that something good will come my way but, if one is not trying than how can there be any progress? I really know better but, I just don’t know if leaving would be the right thing.

 I think I should just looking for another place here in L.A. and find someone who wants the help and has the option of a possible hire. I just don’t think this company is going to cut it for me anymore. It’s pretty much been a year and nothing has changed, no growth for me, no new projects, no new responsibilities, nothing. Someone once told me that they needed me more than I needed them. This may be true but, if they need me they will meet my halfway at least. Not, leave me in the dark for a few weeks or a month and then expect me to know what’s going on. 

 Maybe it’s just time to move on. Like Madonna says “There’s only so much you can learn in one place. The more that you wait, the more time that you waste”