I was over at Brian Clark’s Copyblogger yesterday when I noticed an interesting post about a new “opportunity” being offered by Seth Godin. He wants an apprentice.

Straight from Brian:

If you?re selected, you?ll spend the next six months with Seth and his team. It?ll be like an MBA, except better. You?ll be learning how to change the world? and he?s going to teach you for free.

Maybe it’s just me … but doesn’t this seem a bit lame? I mean I know Seth Godin is the real deal – he’s beloved by nearly everyone on the interwebs. I subscribe to his blog and really enjoy a lot of his posts. But this “apprenticeship” is essentially a job (which doesn’t pay) where you do the grunt work on his projects. I’m sure afterwords you’ll be able to open up job interviews with a neat little “I worked with Seth Godin for a bit” – but does that really compare to an MBA (as Seth claims it does)? I’m not so sure.

I think this is more of a publicity deal than a real opportunity – as is everything Seth does I guess. By offering his “help” to some poor soul with the claim that it’s on par (if not better) than an MBA, Seth is sure to get a lot of attention. And he gets free labor out of it. Win/win, no?

All negativity aside (or at least some negativity aside … okay, next to no negativity aside), if you have the cash to blow, the time to kill, and don’t mind working on Seth’s next multi-million dollar project for absolutely nothing – feel free to check out his offer. I guess it just might be for you.