Time to reconnect with my blog. I almost forgot my password it has been so long since my last post. No big news or adventurous vacation pictures. Just some some random (probably non-blog worthy) thoughts.
For the past six months now I have been working as a Health Educator coordinating nutrition, physical activity and tobacco cessation efforts across the county. It was the first job offer I received and if you know me, you know I get impatient with too much downtime and a lack of structure. So, I took the position eager to start building my new resume but a little worried about how I would adapt to county work! Yes, we all have our stereotypes about county employees and usually it doesn't involve cutting edge sexy entrepreneurial projects like the international development work I was previous providing.
My original logic behind getting my MBA was to strengthen my skills and portfolio in order to bring corporate logic models and structures into the nonprofit arena. My long term goal was to eventually start or direct a nonprofit organization with a specific focus on woman's health and/or immigrant health. I thought I would be bringing business into the nonprofit sector leveraging resources and maximizing philanthropic funds.
I still maintain those long-term goals and often peruse MCN for nonprofit leadership positions. I also occasionally find myself drawn toward big corporate career pages searching for ways to bring my community engagement values into the business world. Corporate social responsibility is typically viewed as a publicity effort to build positive brand recognition and maybe that is true, but the reality is that businesses do have money and usually nonprofits do not! Therefore, CSR work has a huge untapped potential to make a strong positive impact for underserved communities.
However, for now I will continue learning from my current temporary (but finally full-time with benefits!) health consulting position and networking with other like-minded people. My intention is to remind myself to think creatively about my future, never to be complacent with having unrealized goals and to always make the most of what I do between the hours of 9-5pm.
After all, maybe creating healthy eating and vending policies, improving safe walking routes to school, providing breastfeeding support for working mothers and promoting physical activity in the schools doesn't sound all that revolutionary to you but...I think its pretty cool!
For the past six months now I have been working as a Health Educator coordinating nutrition, physical activity and tobacco cessation efforts across the county. It was the first job offer I received and if you know me, you know I get impatient with too much downtime and a lack of structure. So, I took the position eager to start building my new resume but a little worried about how I would adapt to county work! Yes, we all have our stereotypes about county employees and usually it doesn't involve cutting edge sexy entrepreneurial projects like the international development work I was previous providing.
My original logic behind getting my MBA was to strengthen my skills and portfolio in order to bring corporate logic models and structures into the nonprofit arena. My long term goal was to eventually start or direct a nonprofit organization with a specific focus on woman's health and/or immigrant health. I thought I would be bringing business into the nonprofit sector leveraging resources and maximizing philanthropic funds.
I still maintain those long-term goals and often peruse MCN for nonprofit leadership positions. I also occasionally find myself drawn toward big corporate career pages searching for ways to bring my community engagement values into the business world. Corporate social responsibility is typically viewed as a publicity effort to build positive brand recognition and maybe that is true, but the reality is that businesses do have money and usually nonprofits do not! Therefore, CSR work has a huge untapped potential to make a strong positive impact for underserved communities.
However, for now I will continue learning from my current temporary (but finally full-time with benefits!) health consulting position and networking with other like-minded people. My intention is to remind myself to think creatively about my future, never to be complacent with having unrealized goals and to always make the most of what I do between the hours of 9-5pm.
After all, maybe creating healthy eating and vending policies, improving safe walking routes to school, providing breastfeeding support for working mothers and promoting physical activity in the schools doesn't sound all that revolutionary to you but...I think its pretty cool!
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| My awesome co-worker promoting active commuting to work |
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| Encouraging biking to work and healthy eating! |
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