[gte910h]

You need to put a email address in the profile notes section of your profile. I was going to send you an email to ask you a few questions.

While it's illegal to not pay someone for useful work in my country (US), if you were a match I'd look into internships and paying intern wages once you showed any capacity to do work we could use after bringing you up to bare competence via starter projects.

[onktak]

I have updated my profile. I have seen a couple of posts looking for unpaid interns so i thought for some companies its sort of routine to actually get people in as unpaid interns then hire them.

[silverlake]

There are tons of unpaid internships in the US. It's not illegal at all.

[gte910h]

You would be mistaken. You can be sued for back wages and be fined if you screw up there. Here is the applicable publication from the national department of labor.

From: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/scope/er15.asp

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If all of the following criteria apply, the trainees or students are not employees within the meaning of the Act:

The training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to that which would be given in a vocational school;

The training is for the benefit of the trainees or students;

The trainees or students do not displace regular employees, but work under close supervision;

The employer that provides the training receives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees or students and, on occasion, his operations may even be impeded;

The trainees or students are not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the training period; and

The employer and the trainees or students understand that the trainees or students are not entitled to wages for the time spent in training.

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Very few internships in the US can satisfy all of these.

[vanillagorilla]

Try again. http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/23795

[silverlake]

I am wrong. It's illegal but never enforced until recently.