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I...don't think I'm cut out for this.
The board meeting went well, but how much time can I spend talking about branding and interfacing and whether a given event should be classified as black-tie?
This is what happens when you work for a not-very-nonprofitty nonprofit. I'm surrounded by hors d'oeuvres and posh hotels and CEOs in thousand-dollar suits who get their ten-year-olds BlackBerries without batting an eye.
Next month, I get to go to Puerto Rico for a few days because we're taking some of our bigger fish there for a retreat. I get to bring La Actriz. For free. It's going to be the most amazing Valentine's weekend ever. And I'm lucky for getting to experience that, and I'm learning a lot, about event planning and how to be nice with corporate bigwigs in order to get what you want and how to stay afloat in the DC business world, but I just feel like a sell-out.
To the ten-year-olds at my last job, blackberries were just things you picked off bushes and they were ecstatic if you gave them a few quarters for an arcade. I've been on both extremes of the nonprofit spectrum at this point, and I'm definitely finding out which I prefer. I plan to stay with my current job till May/June so I'll have it on my resume that I've been there over a year, and then...we'll see.
My old AmeriCorps team is doing Katrina relief for a week at the end of February and I'm taking some vacation time so I can go along. I'm really excited about that. And I don't have to wear a blazer.
The board meeting went well, but how much time can I spend talking about branding and interfacing and whether a given event should be classified as black-tie?
This is what happens when you work for a not-very-nonprofitty nonprofit. I'm surrounded by hors d'oeuvres and posh hotels and CEOs in thousand-dollar suits who get their ten-year-olds BlackBerries without batting an eye.
Next month, I get to go to Puerto Rico for a few days because we're taking some of our bigger fish there for a retreat. I get to bring La Actriz. For free. It's going to be the most amazing Valentine's weekend ever. And I'm lucky for getting to experience that, and I'm learning a lot, about event planning and how to be nice with corporate bigwigs in order to get what you want and how to stay afloat in the DC business world, but I just feel like a sell-out.
To the ten-year-olds at my last job, blackberries were just things you picked off bushes and they were ecstatic if you gave them a few quarters for an arcade. I've been on both extremes of the nonprofit spectrum at this point, and I'm definitely finding out which I prefer. I plan to stay with my current job till May/June so I'll have it on my resume that I've been there over a year, and then...we'll see.
My old AmeriCorps team is doing Katrina relief for a week at the end of February and I'm taking some vacation time so I can go along. I'm really excited about that. And I don't have to wear a blazer.
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