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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to get out of nonprofits. They are a waste of time unless you are a director - paid well and largely left to their own devices.

You are only 28 and have time to make a change. You should be looking for federal jobs in your area of focus but don't be too narrow. And yes, you should take any fed job that comes along even if the pay is the same - you will be well compensated in terms of other fed benefits which may include grad school assistance.

You shoudl only go to grad school if you can approach it with a plan for how it will advance your career. I don't know your field but if you are in an IR nonprofit think long and hard before going to an IR school - Fletcher, SAIS, SIPA etc. - [b]they are costly and have questionable return on investment (I am a grad of one myself). [/b]Don't do IR or JD, etc without a plan for how it will advance your career. This means don't do JD unless you can get in to a top school.

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seconded. I'm a grad of one - did it help me get a job offer, yes. But that offer fell through and it has been brutal trying to find something ever since.[/quote]

To add to this, OP should emphatically NOT get a grad degree in public health.   It's one of those things that sounds like a good idea at the time but really is not.   Liberal types like myself -- who do/did work at nonprofits like OP -- are the kinds of people tempted by the MPH degree.   Don't be.  There's no ROI -- jobs are hard to land and they pay squat.  And the MPH programs all tend to be at expensive schools.

If you want to "help" poor women in Africa with reproductive choices, let's say, by all means do -- but don't go get a $100K master's first.  Just go. They'll take you.[/quote]

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