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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ran into someone I know that I haven't seen in about a half year. We are both lawyers, only she is an associate at a small firm, and I am at a civil rights organization. The first thing she said to me was, "How's the non-profit job going?" Not even, "Hi, how are you?"

I think she knows where I work and the nature of my work so I found it odd that she phrased it as "non-profit job." Like, that's so broad. It's like me asking her, "So, how are you liking your business job?" The more I thought about it, the more I think that she was making a mild dig at me implying that working in the non-profit sector is somehow beneath working for a small firm. Maybe nothing about my role registered with her except that it was at a *gasp* non-profit?

Am I being overly sensitive and her question was a normal question? FWIW, I love my job and its mission, my co-workers, the flexibility, schedule, and decent pay (albeit not high-paying).[/quote]

You're overly sensitive and you're also in a wrong non-profit.  At my non-profit organization, lawyers regularly make 500K in salary and bonus.  The CEO of the non-profit is a lawyer from an Yale and his salary is around 4M.  [/quote]

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