Hey, kiddos, I know that some of you are in school and fretting over what career to go into. "I got a degree in gender studies, now what, ahhh!" Some of you are just sick of being poor.
Do you have a bachelors in a social science or two years of activist experience? Are you willing to work 100 hours a week for 45K? Is a clean conscious more valuable to you than your sanity? Work for a union! Go become an organizer in training for SEIU or AFSCE or Unite-Here or some other expansion-minded union. Meet workaholic comrades.
Being a teacher isn't the only way to get over-worked for 45K with a clean conscious, there's always union work.
Burnout is common.
The AFL predates the CIA by a long-shot, but there's no doubt involvement. Any time the feds cleaned the mob out of a union, I have no doubt that feds took their place, UMW in virginia in the 70's is a great example