White Saviour Complex/grad school

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I'm pushing my kids to go to business school and make millions.

You guys simply cannot be pleased.

+1. Avoid nonprofit and intl development work at all costs. Just not worth it. You’ll be vilified and underpaid. Lose-lose

+2. No way in hell.

This is what worries me. Kid with a sociology major at an expensive university, interested in service in Central America. I have no clue how they'll be able to pay the rent after graduating from college or what a longer-term career might look like. How long will it take for said kid to see the writing on the wall and pursue something else? Will the summer service in Central America be enough.

Development professional here. It's not as gloomy as PP makes it out to be. No, I'm not making big bucks, but that's because I chose to focus my career on the nonprofit sector. Lots of folks from my graduate school peer group went to for-profit development firms and are doing very well for themselves. There are ways for this to be a perfectly fine, if not enormously lucrative, career. The big issue will be whether he genuinely likes it.