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I'm abroad for an internship, but I feel like I'm wasting my money.?

I've been at an unpaid internship abroad that I've paid $2400.00 to go to so that I could practice a foreign language simultaneously for two months, and I haven't yet done anything useful.

They just started me on some semi-useful work, because a new girl came in and was put to work right away. I am thoroughly pissed off, and am about to give my boss, who I like very much, an ultimatum. It's nothing personal, but I have a month left here, and damn it, I need something to say about this job during my interview besides "Excel data entry, and makes a good cup of coffee."

I'm doing absolutely NONE of the things that I was told I'd be doing when I went down, and I'm fed up to say the least. Any advice/similar experiences?

If you have the skills already that you are supposed to have been developing during your internship and that is what was originally described to you as being in the program, go ahead and put it on your resume anyway.

I had a mainframe computer operations job where I had the job title and the training, but almost exclusively operated four high-speed color printers for the company. On my resume, I put all of the things I was familiar with that were included in my original formal job description. No problems ever arose from it.

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