I work in politics and have found that I do very well on campaigns and within party committees. They are nimble, embrace skill over experience, encourage constructive dialoue, and priortize outcome over process. By contrast, my year at a large nonprofit in LA was absolutely miserable. My superior ideas were rejected in favor of inferior ideas from longterm employees, decisions were often made my committee (my worst nightmare), and almost every employee in the Development Department, with the exceptio of me and another recent hire, demanded adherence to asinine processes and lacked any sense of urgency. As a well-connected young man who is popular among donors in Los Angeles and across the country, the organization's longtime (and much, much older) CDO confided in a colleage that he feared that I would take his job. After she told me about their exchange, I resgined and concluded my letter by reassuring the CDO that "I am a fundraiser, not a janitor. I would never want to be in the position of cleaning up this mess."
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I work in politics and have found that I do very well on campaigns and within party committees. They are nimble, embrace skill over experience, encourage constructive dialoue, and priortize outcome over process. By contrast, my year at a large nonprofit in LA was absolutely miserable. My superior ideas were rejected in favor of inferior ideas from longterm employees, decisions were often made my committee (my worst nightmare), and almost every employee in the Development Department, with the exceptio of me and another recent hire, demanded adherence to asinine processes and lacked any sense of urgency. As a well-connected young man who is popular among donors in Los Angeles and across the country, the organization's longtime (and much, much older) CDO confided in a colleage that he feared that I would take his job. After she told me about their exchange, I resgined and concluded my letter by reassuring the CDO that "I am a fundraiser, not a janitor. I would never want to be in the position of cleaning up this mess."