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WouldbeRVAtourguide t1_j396v2f wrote

Have you thought about offering a paid internship at like VCU?

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VCUBNFO t1_j3c7kza wrote

Probably the one time I would recommend against it. A young VCU student isn’t going to recommend the boring old reliable stuff that a small business should have. They’ll end up with a custom coded website in rust with dev, stage, prod environments all infra as code, on AWS for just a restaurant menu…

“You want to edit your menu, just install MySQL workbench, connect to the VPN, …….”

My first IT job was at a hosting provider and I saw this too often. I was also the VCU student who would have thrown arch Linux on an old laptop and used it as your server because no need to pay evil corporations

An intern might be good for general maintenance of whatever ends up getting set up though.

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hornhead71 OP t1_j398wap wrote

I have not. How would I even begin to look for that?

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WouldbeRVAtourguide t1_j399ydt wrote

careers@vcu.edu this is what I found on the internship for vcu. It might be worth just reaching out and seeing what they think. You might end up with someone interested in your field who is tech savvy. Or just someone in a computer field that can save you a bunch of time good luck.

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