There comes a point in your life where summer is no longer filled with endless beach days, carelessness and freedom. Now your summer looks like a 9-5 in a cubicle at the bottom of the chain in an office otherwise known as interning. You might think it sucks but I’m here to tell you why all of your complaints about it suck instead.

1. You find out what you don't want to

While doing your “painful” job you realize what you’re doing is exactly what you don’t want to do. Why would you want to know that? The only way you know what you want to do is when you rule out what you don’t. Knowing what you don’t want to do is one of the most valuable things you can take away from a job especially at a temporary job at a young age.

2. You can't go out

While having a job that consumes most of your hours during the day, you can’t go out. God knows half the time you’re even too tired to go anyways. What you don’t realize is that work you put in over the summer is play you get to have at school. Who wants to go out when all your friends are scattered across the country anyways? After my internship I know I’ll be able to have that much more fun when I get back to my college town.

3. You’re paid sh*t or nothing at all

This is one of the worst complaints to me. A summer internship isn’t about making money. If that was what you wanted to do you shouldn’t have applied for an internship in the first place. The experience you get to learn and put on your resume is far more valuable than any amount of money you could possibly make at this age.

4. You didn't choose your position

This may not have been your ideal choice of work, but it was someone else’s. The very desk you sit at was someone else’s dream job. Nobody forces you to show up to work or even do it while you’re there. You applied along with many others, maybe even thousands, but you were selected. Clearly someone saw something in you that they didn’t see in others. Embrace it and be grateful somebody of power at a respectable company thought so highly of you that they chose to give you this position

5. Other people get to enjoy summer

You may look at it like you're not getting to do what people without internships are doing during summer when you should look at it like they can't do what you're doing. The only thing you're really losing is looking cool on social media and we all know that's all fake anyways.

So remember while you’re busy complaining about things at your internship you’re missing out on the opportunity you've been given. An internship definitely consists of things that might be boring at times but it's all worth it. Be grateful you were given this chance to step into the real world before you actually have to. Embrace what you have that others can't. You'll be thankful you did.