Key Ideas:
- You are an experienced professional in the middle, or a student at the beginning of your career. For whatever reason, you have decided you now want to “do good” with your career… or “more” good than you previously have, whatever that means. But you don’t quite know in what area and in what capacity. Whether or not you are deeply passionate about a particular issue area, e.g., education, healthcare, energy, human rights, sustainable food, etc., you just know you want to have a (more) meaningful social impact in your area of choice.
- However, the options can be bewildering. Either they all kind of sound good or, more likely, they all kind of sound the same. Should you go into nonprofit? Join a social enterprise? Try your luck with corporate social innovation aka “CSR”? How about impact investing? How about consulting for sustainability? What’s wrong with just a good old “traditional” for-profit job? The list goes on.
- If you are the student, you may ask where you should start. If you are the experienced professional considering a change, you will ask how to choose between a host of options before pouring in your remaining heart, time and energy.
- In this four part post series my goal is to propose a simple, yet hopefully useful approach of evaluating and picking what may be a suitable do-good career option for you. Using it may save you some time and disheartening experiences along the way to becoming and remaining a changemaker throughout your life.
