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This group defends its choices on a variety of non-monetary grounds. They cite a challenging work environment, bright peers, the opportunity for advancement based on merit and a steep learning curve. They complain that the public sector is often the opposite: slow, inefficient and full of people who are unambitious and overly bureaucratic. They see career options like teaching and non-profit work as insufficiently influential and somehow less "professional...
...challenge the future I-bankers and consultants in the Class of 1999 to break the cycle. Join a non-profit and use those management skills honed at that summer consulting position to save valuable dollars. Take a government job, and show your co-workers how to write reports in four hours instead of four weeks. Become an educator and show your students there are still some teachers who can pass the standardized tests they are expected to pass...
Onie acknowledged that because of the "general push on campus for careers in the profit sector," students' concerns about their future income and the tendency of undergraduates to view "careers in the profit sector as more challenging than those in the non-profit," students are often unenthusiastic about choosing a career in the public sector...
...called his experience at the Career Forum, where there were only four or five non-profit organizations relegated to a corner of the room, "depressing...
...dismayed to see at the Career Forum on Friday, [investment bank] Goldman Sachs has as many tables as all the non-profit organizations," Tomlinson said...