My Gucci Affaire

  This post could be a continuation of the previous one, because it happened more or less in the same period. One day I got an interesting and random email. It was a Gucci pr asking me if I was interested in a paid internship at their press office in Milan. I was kind of surprised, but then again they were probably one of those 1000 + recipients to whom I had sent my cv for possible job opportunities. 

Even though at this point I was quite sure that journalism was the right path for me, I was still interested in making new experience in the pr world, mostly because it is paid better and it can really help you build contacts. But as I explained in the previous post, my situation with visa was complicated and internship just wasn't an option. Plus I already had a job offer from one semi-known magazine. I explained the situation to the Gucci pr and I guess they were very interested in having me because I was also contacted by their human resources office from Florence in order to discuss any other contract possibilities.  Eventually they decided that they just couldn't pay 20% more of taxes for a real contract so we said goodbye. I was asked, however, by the pr to let her know if my situation with visa changes in near future... 

Approximately six months later, when I already got my visa, started working at a magazine which then went bankrupt, I saw an ad for an internship at Gucci's press office. So I said why not, I had no other job at the moment. I sent my updated cv to the pr that I already knew, and this time I really thought it could work. Unfortunately, she let me know that because of a new law that was introduced in Italy couple of weeks prior, companies weren't allowed any more to take interns who have finished their studies more than 12 months ago, which was my case... So again, so close, yet so far. 

I still believe it could have been a great learning experience for me. But in the Republic of Interns, that is all that there is – just internships, and now the country was taking even that opportunity from me (officially because they wanted to prevent companies from always taking interns instead of hiring young people). Well, dear Gucci, we could have had it all, but it just wasn't meant to be...