{"id":1235,"date":"2018-07-08T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2018-07-09T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:43:52","slug":"week-6-nonprofit-vs-corporate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/2018\/07\/08\/week-6-nonprofit-vs-corporate\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6: nonprofit vs corporate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not work this week and instead took a vacation and worked from home. However, this provided me with an even better opportunity to reflect on my time at ALSAC thus far. While in Memphis, I feel like I\u2019m living a dream. I love where I work, I love the focus on diversity and inclusion, the culture, everything St. Jude stands for and the fact that I am not treated as an intern, but as a fully capable employee. I love that I work at a company with strong female role models that make me feel like I can do anything that I want despite the gender biases in the workforce. However, for the first time, I was taken out of my dream world and felt silenced by the world around me. I had conversations with people that work in New York City or Washington D.C. at big name companies. They loved the work they were doing, which is very understandable and amazing for them, and wanted to talk about all the perks and money they would make when they were full time employees. And every time they asked me what I do, I would briefly explain my job and they would nod almost in sympathy as if what I was doing was cute and clearly not as important as what they do. I was blown away by myself and the fact that I could let something that I am so passionate about feel less important than another job just because it is in the nonprofit sector.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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