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.