Thread:Sailor*Moon*Star/@comment-3247345-20120531041901/@comment-3247345-20120603053629

Oh, and by the way, don't ever get a job at Grassroots Campaigns. I say this because they raise money for the ACLU, the human rights organization I pointed you towards. In fact, don't get a job raising money for them at all. As great as the cause may be, it's almost impossible to raise money and it's miserable. You have to deal with really stupid people who think they know everything but really are just highly opinionated ignoramuses that shouldn't be allowed to contaminate the gene pool. My point is if you want to help human rights, don't try to raise money for it. You won't raise money for it, but the morons you have to interact with will drive you insane in minutes. Besides, if you get a proper education you should be able to get a better job than that anyway. By the way, this seems obvious, but have you googled "careers in human rights"? I looked through some of the stuff and you should find it useful. There's all kinds of jobs, a lot of them are available for any organization, but you could do it for a human rights organization. There's stuff in advertising/marketing, there's people that need to maintain the computers. Plus there's stuff that will get you more involved in actual human rights work. For example, you know about the crackdown on protests in Syria right? The Syrian government expelled all foreign journalists and is tightly restricting Syrian journalism. The only reason we know what's going on is because there's activists on the ground calling organizations like Amnesty International to report what's going on. Obviously that kind of work might be dangerous, but there are less dangerous options. Different options have different education requirements, so find out what education you need for that kind of job. Again, avoid any job where you have to raise money, for the reason I described above. Here's a good link that should get you started:

http://www.idealist.org/info/Careers/SelfKnowledge/Lenses/Issue/HumanRights

I have to warn you though, there's not much money in human rights work. But if you are really passionate about human rights, you shouldn't let that stop you. Like I said before, I want to teach at a community college. The starting salary is only $30k-$40k. But I want a job that I'll enjoy. I don't want some highly paid job where I'll dread going to work everday. So yeah, you should do something because you enjoy it, not because it pays a lot. If you hate your job, the fact that it pays well doesn't help that much. You'll just be a very unhappy person with a lot of money. So don't let the fact that there isn't much money in human rights stop you from doing it if you enjoy it.