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December 28, 2007
Save the world or save yourself?
It is common to read about private-sector workers who leave the soulless realm of the corporate world for a non-profit job or some form of public service. Here is a perspective from a worker who did just the opposite. Ex-non-profit employee Melissa Hirchson celebrates life in the rat race.
What I found interesting about this piece was the insight that non-profit organizations are rife with the same frustrations that plague the for-profit world:
After 15 years, I knew it had to end. It was a hard choice. Didn’t I want to save the world? But while the company was not a Dilbert-ian hell, any job has its aggravations, and I was starting to go batty over the company’s penny-pinching and their slow pace in dealing with growing pains.
Any moment not spent producing at maximum capacity was considered wasteful. Our workspaces continued to shrink. They refused to hire an assistant, but heaped all the clerical work on me anyway
This sounds a lot like the sort of thing you might here from any corporate cubicle on any given day.
