Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work.

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If educated Sri Lankans were allowed to work in India, they could get good jobs there instead of having to take menial work in the Gulf, thus easing a growing shortage of skilled Indian workers.

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His seven-man shop subsisted on menial design work.

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Most of the boys work menial jobs or steal, he tells us.

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Always have a positive attitude about the work, however menial it may seem.

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Off-shoring over the years has excellerated rapidly, and not just for menial labor, but engineering and legal work.

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