{"id":28168,"date":"2023-03-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/?post_type=article&p=28168"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:42:39","slug":"what-we-learnt-in-our-first-six-months-at-a-social-sector-job-nonprofit-humour","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/mr-in\/article\/humour\/what-we-learnt-in-our-first-six-months-at-a-social-sector-job-nonprofit-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learnt in our first six months at a social sector job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disclaimer: No employees were harmed in the making of this piece. We think.<\/em><\/p>

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You have to adapt to the sector lingo very quickly, or else…<\/p>

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Your nonprofit card stands to be revoked if you have never attended a conference at India Habitat Centre. Needless to say, the smallest details of the Stein Auditorium are now permanently etched into our memory.<\/p>

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3<\/h3>

Networking at conferences will alter your brain chemistry in unique ways. Sometimes when my mother comes to visit I greet her with “Hi, can I have your business card?”<\/p>

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4<\/h3>

Sneaking up behind experts that just got off the stage becomes part of your key responsibilities.<\/p>

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But be warned, said expert may use some terms you may have never heard of. (Pro tip: Just say ‘ecosystem development’ or ‘just transition’ anytime there’s an awkward silence.)<\/p>

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6<\/h3>

At least there’s free food at conferences. That’s such a great perk. Truly. No complaints. *cue food poisoning* *cries in no-health-insurance*.<\/p>

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7<\/h3>

We don’t know what FCRA is but our boss says we’ll never get one. Much like a return on a public policy master’s degree.<\/p>

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8 <\/h3>

It can be slightly complicated to explain what we do for a living *cough*.<\/p>

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But despite everything, the people are genuinely nice, passionate about the impact of their organisation, and love to scale their work (did we use ‘scale’ correctly?)<\/p>

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