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I wanted to write down some important goals that I am going to work on this summer. I'm feeling so much better, and I'm graduating in May of 2010. I'm not sure I want to take the bar, but I am pretty sure that I'm going to pursue a career in the nonprofit sector. Ostensibly I'd like a position as a program coordinator, marketing director, or fundraiser, and I think I can swing that, but I've identified a few other things that I think could help.
1) I am taking nonprofit law this fall semester and I think it will be invaluable and it will also help me identify what other courses to take in my last semester. I'm taking poverty law, too, and since that's the area I'd most like to work in, I'm feeling good about that.
2) Volunteering at the library this summer a couple days a week: this will help me get acclimated to working again. To just being in the work environment, being comfortable there again, overcoming workplace anxiety issues.
3) Finally joining the DAR. I know, I know, they're a shitty organization and horrible and evil...but really, they aren't quite so bad and I think I can make a lot of really important networking connections. And the DAR is a charitable organization, and employs people. So maybe helpful.
4) Learning things like SAS and Adobe, and Dreamweaver, or some other HTML type program. These seem to be in high demand.
5) Increasing my volunteer schedule at Food For Others. The director, Liz, is an amazing woman and once I've adequately laid the foundation and built up that relationship, I plan on asking her if I can be her unpaid intern for a few months, shadowing her to get work experience (and get a recommendation).
6) Pimping familial connections. Putting it out there that this is what I'm looking for. Bonnie, Ken, Elia, Joyce, Martha, Donna's Brookings connections. Also: I should probably talk to someone in Career Services at AU to see if they have any books I should read, etc.
Anybody with any advice--what else should I be doing? what should I be reading?--hit me up, please!
I am feeling so good about this. It feels nice to be making plans again.
1) I am taking nonprofit law this fall semester and I think it will be invaluable and it will also help me identify what other courses to take in my last semester. I'm taking poverty law, too, and since that's the area I'd most like to work in, I'm feeling good about that.
2) Volunteering at the library this summer a couple days a week: this will help me get acclimated to working again. To just being in the work environment, being comfortable there again, overcoming workplace anxiety issues.
3) Finally joining the DAR. I know, I know, they're a shitty organization and horrible and evil...but really, they aren't quite so bad and I think I can make a lot of really important networking connections. And the DAR is a charitable organization, and employs people. So maybe helpful.
4) Learning things like SAS and Adobe, and Dreamweaver, or some other HTML type program. These seem to be in high demand.
5) Increasing my volunteer schedule at Food For Others. The director, Liz, is an amazing woman and once I've adequately laid the foundation and built up that relationship, I plan on asking her if I can be her unpaid intern for a few months, shadowing her to get work experience (and get a recommendation).
6) Pimping familial connections. Putting it out there that this is what I'm looking for. Bonnie, Ken, Elia, Joyce, Martha, Donna's Brookings connections. Also: I should probably talk to someone in Career Services at AU to see if they have any books I should read, etc.
Anybody with any advice--what else should I be doing? what should I be reading?--hit me up, please!
I am feeling so good about this. It feels nice to be making plans again.