no it's trash. layers and layers of bureacracy, shit pay, too many liberal platitudes.

that being said, having left academia for this, it's way less stressful if you don't let it get to you.

NGO/non profits are ways for the state to offload their own responsibility into the 'semiprivate sphere'.

1. state doesn't address material concerns. 2. state creates ngo/nonprofit wing. 3. these ngos beg and battle for pennies. 4. those pennies trickle down trough the ranks of useless bureacracy. 5. actual services may or may not happen. 6. ngo isn't seen as competitve or successful, funding is stripped. 6. 'sorry, we did what we could, but our hands are tied!'

I thankfully only have 2 employees I oversee and do my best to mostly just stay out of their hair and let them do what they're good at: teaching. I also keep dropping hints that they should unionize, cuz they will never get what they want/need otherwise.

I just finished reading Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' and that's a lot of what happens in the NGO/nonprofit sector, except for the extremely overworked and underpaid lowest rungs of the ladder.