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[quote=Anonymous]yes, my 2nd job out of college i was hired to be the low level PR person at a nonprofit think tank. I had about 4 hours of work every month to put together a text based newsletter. I just took other people's copy and formatted. No content creation of my own.  It was insanely boring and i was glad to quit at the one year mark to go back to school. They continued to staff that job with 1-year hires for at least 5 more years.

I assumed they kept hiring for the role because to not hire would be to acknowledge that my boss (PR director) himself had very little to do. Like, if he declined to re-hire someone, people in the org would get the idea that there wasn't much going on in his department.  I still don't know what that guy did all day long and he's still there 25 years later as like a c-suite role now. Still living in his large bethesda house. Unbelievable.

My takeaway was to never work in nonprofit again. I am now a biglaw partner, work 60+ hours a week and am much happier. [/quote]

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