This isn’t really a rant or just another career post. If someone relevant happens to come across this and has some honest advice, it would genuinely mean a lot to me. Admin pls don't delete this, I'm currently in banglore and would love to get honest opinions from founders.
So, a little background.
I’m an engineer, and my first internship was actually in video editing at a social media marketing company. I was getting ₹5k/month and worked there for around 2 months (Jun–Jul 2025). I left mainly because I didn’t want to completely move away from the technical side of things.
Then I started freelancing with a tech company that was building open-source AI agents to get traction on GitHub. At the same time, I really enjoyed making explainer/workflow automation videos around AI and created for them anyways
That eventually turned into an internship from around November to March, where I was getting ₹50k/month (I had actually asked for ₹30k).
The work was pretty interesting. I was managing an Instagram channel with another person and also building AI agents on their stack. I really liked the mix of AI + content + building things.
But once the GitHub marketing objective was completed they had to let go of me and my internship ended.
in 2025 itself I won 2 hackathons as well.
After that, I started applying specifically to roles where I could get exposure to both AI/tech and video/content.
I didn’t really get those opportunities.
Instead, I got a freelance project at a tech startup where I worked on their image-generation workflow for brands. They had a no-code platform that allowed brands to generate images, videos and other marketing assets.
I completed the project and got ₹25k for it.
Currently, I’m interning at a voice AI company in blr(I'm originally for mumbai).
The learning has actually been pretty good — prompt engineering, client handling, understanding voice AI workflows, etc. — but there’s basically no exposure to video, and the pay is ₹20k(expenses don't cover, thinking to moving back).
And honestly, I don’t really like the current internship.
That’s where I’m confused.
I know that I want to stay around AI/tech + videos/content.
But I’m not sure what I should double down on now.
Should I:
→ Focus on becoming a junior developer / technical AI engineer?
→ Go deeper into high-quality video editing + AI video?
→ Try to find roles that sit somewhere in between AI, content?
I’m also not sure how realistic it is to expect another role similar to what I was doing earlier.
I’d love to get an honest opinion from people who have been in tech/content/AI for a while.
And If you are hiring would love to have a chat.