Overrated Career: Nonprofit Manager

Looks like the author is talking about...

It looks like the author simply means that many people who have not started their careers and are considering starting a non-profit may have perceptions about the career (in general) that aren't true.

It's very romantic to, for example, want to save a particular type of bird or insect, but the reality of creating or managing an org to do it would require skills that have more to do with selling, fund raising, etc. than with the environment.

I don't take this article to mean that directing a non-profit isn't awesome, I take it to mean that the reality of it isn't what a layman would first think of. For example, Wesley stated many cool things about about his job, but failed to mention what the non-profit org actually does (help the homeless, provide scholarships, etc), which is the only thing someone on the outside sees.

So, it's not that different sets of jobs were actually rated or ordered: as stated on the main page of the article, these are subjective.

A better title would probably be "jobs where the reality differs greatly from the layman's initial perceptions, which may lead to dissatisfaction when the reality sinks in if this is what you plan on doing after high school, and don't know anything about it yet."

Ryan of WI @ Sep 27, 2009 05:57:03 AM