Finding Fulfillment in Nonprofit Work

As organizations in the social impact sector fight to solve problems all over the world, travel is often tied to nonprofit work. It’s one of the things that drew today’s podcast guest to make a big career change.

An episode of the Wandering Workers Podcast: Travel | Lifestyle podcast, hosted by Michelle Valenti, titled "Finding Fulfillment in Nonprofit Work" was published on November 24, 2015 and runs 21 minutes.

November 24, 2015 ·21m · Wandering Workers Podcast: Travel | Lifestyle

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In this episode of the Wandering Workers Podcast I talk with someone who jumped from a high-paying job in the for-profit sector to more fulfilling work in the nonprofit world...a position that has her traveling around the world.

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As organizations in the social impact sector fight to solve problems all over the world, travel is often tied to nonprofit work. It’s one of the things that drew today’s podcast guest to make a big career change. Whitney entered business school thinking it would help her find the ideal for-profit job. And it did. “It was exactly the job I pictured getting when I went to business school,” she says. But over the course of her five-year career at Kimpton, she couldn’t shake the influence of the friends she made in the nonprofit world back in school. Her story is one that a lot of people can relate to. She had a great job, in a cool city, and could afford to take small trips every year to satisfy some degree of the travel bug. But she wanted more, or rather…something different. She wondered if she would feel more fulfilled working at a…Continue Reading

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