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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A nonprofit? Wasn't USAID an agency? What am I missing?[/quote]

OP are you ok? USAID isn't a nonprofit.

What was she doing for $272K a year that someone else couldn't do for say $120K or even $100K?

I do belive there are a ton of people being way overpaid in large cities like DC.[/quote]
Do you live in DC? Do you have any idea the COL here? 100k would be criminal exploitation for an educated, experienced employee.[/quote]

Based on what? Credentialism alone shouldn’t guarantee you a high paying job. What do you DO that commands a high salary? If you are fungible or easily replaceable for cheaper, tough luck. [/quote]

$100k would get you someone with four years of experience here. You seem completely unaware of the job market here.[/quote]

You are still focused on credentialism and rubrics rather than the value of what she actually DOES. You've been lost in the sauce for too long, you can't even see it. The whole premise of the thread is asking whether her skillset and was she DOES was actually worth it. Nobody is entitled to a high salary just because they went to some nice-sounding school and racked up years of service doing not much of anything. [/quote]

No, I’m actually not “lost in the sauce,” I’m just aware that you can’t find someone to do senior-level nonprofit work in DC for $100k, which is laughable. Senior roles in nonprofits have significant responsibilities that take time and experience to be able to do. You can’t find someone that can do that for $100k. It’s not hypothetical. I know nonprofits here. No one is getting someone with the relevant skills and experience to manage large budgets and teams for $100k.

Again, you clearly don’t live here so not sure why you are commenting on what the job market is like.[/quote]

You are lost in the sauce and still talking about an "job market" based on credentialism, cronyism and gatekeeping within a circumscribed, non-transferrable bubble. I know this world well and a lot of the senior people are absolutely useless, but they hid out in government, NGOs or contractors. It was turtles all the way down; the work isn't hard. The issue now is the rug has been pulled out from under that. What you are calling "skill" is really only germane to a niche that has been decimated and not really transferrable. It would appear that "program management" "strategic planning" and "budgeting" aren't as valuable as those of you lost in the sauce thought they were. [/quote]

Imagine thinking "budgeting" was an irrelevant job skill. Have you ever run anything larger than a lemonade stand?

The companies (NGOs) collapsed and melted away. That doesn't mean the jobs these people were doing were fake or unskilled. After the 2008 crisis nobody declared "banking" a niche skill without value, even though bankers couldn't get jobs. When a tech company collapses and a lot of programmers are out of work all at once, you don't say they were overpaid before because they can't find jobs now.

PP has a problem with "government, NGOs, and contractors" which is a huge swath of the economy to declare fake. Tells us PP, which jobs qualify as "real" jobs - just the one you do?[/quote]

You [i]still[/i] don't get it. The reason it's in quotes is because they are not actually that skilled in it. Many places are notoriously, horribly mismanaged and that is being exposed. Not exactly masters of resource management, innovation and lean service delivery models here. 
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How do you know this?[/quote]

[b]Citing tech workers and bankers is also dumb. [/b]People assume those jobs knowing layoffs are part of the game and the jig could be up at any given moment. No one is writing reams of think pieces profiling Jared the Managing Director from Morgan Stanley or Chad the Principal Engineer from Meta and lamenting the difficulties of his job hunt and begging for sympathy. Plus, a lot of software engineers out of a job simply freelance or coast until they find a job of their liking because...their [i]skills[/i] are in demand.[/quote]

DP but no, it’s actually not dumb. If your argument is that an inability to find other work when your industry gets wrecked means you don’t have valuable skills, then that applies to other industries where it has happened too. I’m old enough to remember what the job market was like after 2008 for people in finance and it was terrible. It didn’t mean they were suddenly all useless-skilled deadweight. Same thing happened with more tech more recently, and with law in the early 2010s as a knock-on effect of the financial crisis.

But Musk fanboys are too young or too brainwashed to know any of those things.[/quote]

+1. No one is inherently safe from this.

The pushback against well-paid former USAID or USAID-adjacent people isn't because they didn't spend a decade in grad school and training. Neither did software developers. And it's not because they're taxpayer-funded. Doctors are not just highly-subsidized, their wages are artificially high because of the AMA labor cartel. It's because you dislike their politics and you assume you're smarter and more competent than them based on about the same level of information as the people who killed USAID had.[/quote]

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