I think lizzie is referring to Internships but as half of the post is taken up with yet anothee reprise of her (usual) attitude that formal education (including university) is producing 'irrelevant' people that

"can sell film and razor blades, push paper and talk on the telephones, or sit mindlessly before a flickering computer terminal but as human beings they are useless.
Useless to others and useless to themselves"

and
'a degree now become almost meaningless, as in 'everybody's got one of those' as
'so many kids at University who er...aren't really bright enough to be there'

with probably more than a hint of all employers are exploitative so unlike the roseate golden days

- it's sometimes difficult to tell

Interns 'exploited by employers', says TUC BBC News 13 March