Girls that work at non-profits

[bodhisattva]

@CFAvsMBA

Nonprofits can attract the best and brightest of a respective industry. My man Peter Drucker found that Nonprofits are often called ‘bootcamps’ for corporate America. Furthermore, a nonprofit will also have an altruistic edge that often directly aligns with the employees personal interest and beliefs. Money is often a poor motivated at a specific threshold while ending world hunger can be a lifelong pursuit. This is where the passion comes from that you see. As much as I try, I can’t stay passionate about pushing buttons on a keyboard all day while shuffling paper to turn a little bit of money into a lot of money. Please.

I’ve been getting involved with local nonprofits and have been blown away at the number of high caliber associates and volunteers. I’ve met more BSD types in this realm than at a CFA/MBA function. The people often have less of a pompous attitude likewise, (ie I’m M&A’in on the Buyside!).

Nonprofits are not crappy organizations full of do-gooders. Many are extremely well run and capital rich. Unlike a corporation, residual profits either get reinvested or donated in order to retain the 501C or whatever their tax standing is.

This has been my experience as well.

I also know about a dozen people in the non profit sector that make well into the six figures. When you get into areas like fundraising and development or executive roles the compensation can be quite good and the work life balance is incredible.

It may be hard to believe but not everyone is as materialistic as us, in fact, those of us in finance tend to abnormally greed achievement orientated and materialistic relative to the mainstream.

[system]

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[krazykanuck]

@ohai

Hmm. I guess there is one more category then… The young people who want to do something altruistic, but realize that it’s impractical to do this for their whole career. For instance, I know some people who worked for Peace Corp, Teach for America, etc. But after their programs are over, they go get for-profit jobs. This was their intention all along; they didn’t just get burned out and quit.

Really a very good thread here. I don’t have a whole lot to add, but just go off ohai’s point, in my experience, lots of the chicks who do Teach for America or Americorps, something in the US that is altruistic but allows them to live in civilization vs. no running water in Africa, they get there because they don’t have a clue what they want to do with their lives and somehow think that teaching in a crappy school for 2 years will somehow help them figure out what they are looking for. I know this from college, but also I have met a shocking number of TFA teachers and Americorps girls via online dating.

[Analti_Calte_Equity]

I hooked up with a girl working for Children’s international. She had a nipple ring and was rambunctious. The day that we met (ie when she chased me down the street at Union Square), she started flirting with me immediately and then said she was going to ‘steal’ my number from my contact number on the sheet.

[JKW80]

CFAI is a non-profit! Wonder how we would class the women there.

[former_trader]

^ Good point! I would take the question as rhetorical.

[Analti_Calte_Equity]

@JKW80

CFAI is a non-profit! Wonder how we would class the women there.

[system]

Non-profits in liberal states are without question the biggest rackets out there. Joe Kennedy and his wife make over a million combined + lavish benefits at Citizen’s Energy. But of course, it’s for the poor people…

[krazykanuck]

I have this dream where after I’ve finished my primary career, I’ll find a cushy job as the head of finance and accounting at a university. Make good pay, have low stress, and maybe get free tuition for my kids. By then a year of school will cost like $100k.

[Analti_Calte_Equity]

my pinky ring cost like $100k