My friend has recently started work in the charity sector. It is not a highly paid job but she enjoys it hugely, and is good at it. Whilst it is rewarding and challenging, many of the aspects of it seem, to me, really interesting and fun too: for example, she is sometimes asked to scout around the city for venues for luxury fundraising events; she often has to help out at fundraising days; she is in charge of mailing important donors and meeting those who donate.
I OTOH am going into a more corporate role. It is better paid than hers but equally the hours are longer, the work will probably be less interesting and obviously won't be anywhere near as rewarding as hers (I won't be helping people).
When we meet up, she always talks disdainfully about friends of ours who have "sold out" to the corporate machine and talks in glowing terms about those who haven't, as she sees it. FWIW this sector wasn't her first choice, she was interested in Corporate Law and also PR originally.
I'm certainly not trying to disparage her, just don't understand why she always has to make it into a competition about who is the better person She forgets her job is interesting and she gets to do fun things but she sometimes seems to imply she's doing it because she really cares etc. -rather than being paid, as if to lay it on thick that I am "selling my soul"
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CorporateMachineWithAHeart · 28/02/2016 19:40
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