more NGO trouble
Australia,
Being in Beirut is not always the best fun, but it's not as bad as you might think.
Yesterday evening, I visited the NGO again in hope of finding common grounds of interest to work on. I am supposed to become their media coordinator. I don't think I have the prerequisites: I'm not a heavy smoker and I don't have the newest cellular phone on the market.
And then there's the fact that it's an NGO, which means it won't be paying me as much as I would like to be paid. There must be some form of Australian slang for "stingy, pompous NGO people". If not, then there's a new word for Australian youth to work on inventing.
Anyway, this crazy NGO wants to work me like a bull (is the expression correct?). I don't want to say jack-ass. They want to overwork me in return for nothing. As some of you might say, "In return for peanuts."
So, it's a dilemma. I wan the job because media is my 'thang' but I don't want to be abused, even if for a holy cause. Not 'holy' in the Jihad sense, but holy in the sense that all NGO are supposedly working for the better of the whole community.
And do you know how good working for an NGO is to your career? My emigration documents will look marvelous if I worked for an NGO.
Advise me, Australia, what shall I do?
Being in Beirut is not always the best fun, but it's not as bad as you might think.
Yesterday evening, I visited the NGO again in hope of finding common grounds of interest to work on. I am supposed to become their media coordinator. I don't think I have the prerequisites: I'm not a heavy smoker and I don't have the newest cellular phone on the market.
And then there's the fact that it's an NGO, which means it won't be paying me as much as I would like to be paid. There must be some form of Australian slang for "stingy, pompous NGO people". If not, then there's a new word for Australian youth to work on inventing.
Anyway, this crazy NGO wants to work me like a bull (is the expression correct?). I don't want to say jack-ass. They want to overwork me in return for nothing. As some of you might say, "In return for peanuts."
So, it's a dilemma. I wan the job because media is my 'thang' but I don't want to be abused, even if for a holy cause. Not 'holy' in the Jihad sense, but holy in the sense that all NGO are supposedly working for the better of the whole community.
And do you know how good working for an NGO is to your career? My emigration documents will look marvelous if I worked for an NGO.
Advise me, Australia, what shall I do?
