Pros
- Positive nonprofit work - Good experience - LGBTQ Friendly Their goal is for you to succeed while also doing this role, they want you coming out of your year with a new position (in house or elsewhere) & in most cases, that seems to happen.
Cons
- Terrible organizing - Management will say "I don't know" to almost every question - awful hours (55+ hr weeks + a weekend every month if you need transit covered, which you will because you don't make enough to live in Chicago) It depends on your manager and director, but since they work with 18-26 year olds predominantly, and many of them with teaching experience, you will get kind of infantalized in some conversations, they will also keep you in the dark about things. You've got a professional development day in two weeks? you won't know the location until that week, sometimes even only a couple days before, and it'll be several hours out.