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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been stuck in the hellhole that is the Washington think tank and NGO scene. First I slaved away as an unpaid intern and now I make hardly anything. My life is at a standstill. I haven't even been able to move out of the suburbs or finance further schooling.

Please help![/quote]

OP, like others, I offer advice and some harsh facts.  
Whatever degree you got(if you have one), it helped you land that job, in that organization.  You took the job willingly.  I assume that you took the job because you believed in its mission/objectives.  If you worked for free, I assume it was to get experience.  But to stay in the same organization, and wanting not just pay, but higher/better pay, seems insane to me.  At a minimum, change jobs, and go to another think tank/NGO.  I am honestly not sure how you even survive on that kind of income.  Around here that seems like it would put you at or below the poverty line.

Meanwhile, what was your degree?  And seriously review what kind of skills you have. Do you have the skills to sell a product or service?  What are your strengths and weaknesses?  Are you better with numbers, or with people?  In a cube, or out working in the sun?  Where do your interests lie?  Any avenue that you can explore to combine the two? As for additional education, I would first arrive at a conclusion about how much you think you would like to make, and then, are you serious about working to get to that point? Also, what do you really, really want to do, career-wise?

Part of me thinks you should've asked these questions of yourself long ago.  The other part of me says you are only 28.  [/quote]

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