by: Nancy Stoker
August 5, 2011
Driving away from the appointment, though, I couldn’t stop dissecting what just happened in an effort to avoid such frustration in the future. I quickly concluded that the situation rattled my realm of expectations. Prior to the appointment, I based my knowledge only on my own, limited experiences without realizing that the range of possibilities I’d identified was simply not big enough. The reasons for my range turned into my expectations which were then not met.
by: Nancy Stoker
August 2, 2011
It takes a lot of guts to take a look at your own work and say, “Hmmm … really good. But, perhaps it could be just as good or better if I …” I think there are many reasons we might not even consider reinventing or modifying our own work, and those reasons are as numerous as there are people. But, isn’t it intriguing – if not exciting! – to think that in certain areas of our lives we can?!
During the past 30 years, the nonprofit world has grown tremendously, and it is now also considered a much more “glamorous” career path than when I began in it. I, along with many others, just “fell” into it. Now, it is more of a chosen and planned career path, and the sector is attracting more people who have put thought and study into ideas, philosophies and missions through post-graduate programs in nonprofit and public sector studies.
But, I, and many hiring and recruiting professionals, feel the interest explosion and rapid onset of attraction to the sector has also given people an unrealistic expectation about the compensation to expect within it.
Now we are here, and the reality has not at all lived up to its billing. We are in the third day of a nor’easter that has brought high winds and driving rain.
