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Comment by bobthepanda | Hacker News Reader

The economy is soul-sucking. Which, I suppose it's mostly been that way, we're just more open now.

My friends who have worked with NGOs and nonprofits have all complained that they actually have the worst work-life balance; imagine your middle manager doing normal stereotypical office gaslighting about working longer, harder, not getting commensurate pay etc., but instead it's also tinged with morality and "do it because our mission is so important"

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Yeah, my sister works at a nonprofit foundation and it sounds like an absolute disaster in terms of awful culture and management :/

I would naively expect non-profits to have more humanizing cultures internally but it's just objectively not the case. If anything it's the opposite, using the mission as cover for absolute cultural rot. And some of the best cultures seem to be at trading firms like Jane Street and TGS which also pay better than the alternatives. Go figure.

I did some pro-bono development work for a nonprofit some time ago. I don't think I have encountered such unpleasant or entitled clients anywhere, whether as an employee or freelancer.

Know a guy who quite working for a non-profit law firm recently for similar reasons.

I'd love to work on something I really care about, but it seems like most of those jobs just give management excuses to treat you terribly.

Yes, my next door neighbor worked for years at disease foundation non profit and the stories she would tell about management were eye opening.

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