Working for a non-paying job

I was at Laberything books in Princeton wandering around the aisles full of books that I will never ever get the chance to read in my life. The majority of the titles I did not pay attention to, but a work-related book got my attention.

The book was Work Won't Love You Back. I decided to open it on a random page to see what's inside. For years I have noticed that opening a book on a random page provides to me very little insight. But I found a line that described that doing a not-paying job is a privilige.

That sentence caught my attention because it rang a bell inside of me - I knew it was true. While pursuing my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to participate in a research lab in my school. Many of my peers came from low-income backgrounds, but I had a constant daily wage from my parents to eat and solely focus on my studies. I did not have to spend hours outside of classes working for a paying job.

The hours spent in the research lab led to fruitful endeavors and set some direction to the unpredictable Present of me pursuing graduate education in the U.S.A. Many of the gates I had to cross to have access to privileged graduate education required that initial investment of time in a non-paying job.

If am searching for somebody with constancy, with the intention of trying to predict if a person would be able to sustain the difficulties of doing an international internship, should I not look for more than I way to test constancy rather than just searching for it in the vocabulary of a non-paying undergraduate research experience? yes, I should, it makes more sense.