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hi friends so I work at a nonprofit in fact I'm lowkey in my office right now and a while ago on Tumblr pretty little birdie asked me about how I got into nonprofit work and um he or she wants to also work on nonprofit what they should study in college so given that it's one of my last few days at my job here I thought I would tell you about that while uh the fact that I work in a nonprofit is still true so I got into nonprofits in kind of a weird way started out College majoring in advertising and weiz pretty quickly that I didn't want to just try and sell people things they didn't need and I especially didn't want to make them feel bad to do that so I switched my major to writing but quickly realized that a lot of jobs for writing majors are in advertising or marketing so I decided that if I was going to be using my writing to make people do a thing that it would be a positive thing so I did my first internship with a nonprofit helping to Market a farmers market market which takes me to my first tip if you are interested and working in a nonprofit and you are still in school do as many internships as you can in fact even if you don't want to work in a nonprofit I wish that somebody had told me that even doing like one internship is probably not enough start as early as you can do as many as you can it'll be a good way to figure out what you do and you don't like and that whole like meaning experience to get a first job thing internships are the way to do it the great thing about nonprofits is that you can also just volunteer with them which means you get to get that experience by doing good things for people also looks really nice in a resume makes you look like a good person makes you feel like a good person makes you a good person so volunteer also not that I was a writing major I didn't major in anything even slightly related to nonprofits and part of that is because I really philosophically disagree with the idea that college is just job training and so you should major in something like marketing or uh nonprofits or business because you don't have to come out of college knowing everything you just need to know how to learn things and quickly so I think study whatever excites you and gives you kind of a broad range of experiences maybe minor or double major in one of those more kind of straight to Career track Majors but the more diverse your experien is the better especially in a nonprofit resources are often stretched pretty thin so if you can do a lot of different things and you're not super specialized you're going to fit really well with a nonprofit team for example I write but I also do graphic design and I also do fundraising and I also do video production and I work at a fa really large office as far as nonprofit goes we have like 50 or 60 people but you may end up in an office of two and so the more you can adapt and pick up new skills and just be able to have a broad knowledge of a lot of things the better you're going to do another thing I think is hugely important is to open yourself to experiences that will help you develop your empathy I mean if you're already on tumble you're probably like halfway there but things like having volunteer interactions with people you normally wouldn't come across in your day-to-day life or studying other cultures traveling speaking other languages any kind of class or volunteer work or job that can help you see a little Beyond yourself and maybe feel like you are not the center of things is important and I mean a few business or marketing classes probably not going to hurt you either now when you start looking for jobs you probably already know this but you're not going to make a ton of money working for a nonprofit you're always going to be faced with the challenge of trying to do a little more with a little less both in your job and at home that's not a bad thing you learn how to be really efficient and effective at things which is a huge asset if you eventually decide to leave for the private sector also burnout can be really high in nonprofits partially because of the money thing but also a lot of it is because you go to work every day and you care so much about what you're doing and it kind of can consume you because there's always more to do you can always do more and if you try to you will eventually Crash and Burn I think it's one of the luckiest things in the world that I can do work that takes care care of other people but you have to also take care of yourself so if you're considering working for a nonprofit I definitely encourage it uh because you know it's not evil let me know if you have ever thought about working for a nonprofit or if you have questions about doing so in the comments and I will answer them also if you work for a nonprofit or have worked for a nonprofit if you have any ideas or thoughts or tips to share please share those as well if you like this video you can consider subscribing if you're so inclined um you can also 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