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Starter Wiggin posted:I have a background in disaster management, and that combined with zoology would make me a decent candidate for the Peace Corps, which could translate to government work fairly "smoothly", which is a financially sound career end goal. My girlfriend did Peace Corps (public health education) in Nowhere, West Africa with an Art History degree. I was hanging out with her and a few of her PC alum friends and they were talking about how they've been dropping the standards considerably since they all finished up a few years ago. I talked myself out of applying back in 2010 because I thought I wouldn't have been qualified for small business development with my Psych/International Studies background, turned out I was almost certainly wrong. I have the same noncompetitive hiring status as returned PCV's and it is pretty loving useless unless you have great connections and/or are insanely qualified. In short, do Peace Corps if you really want to, but I wouldn't base my degree on it, nor would I count on the federal hiring benefits. Peace Corps service will also actually exclude you from a host of positions involving national security. edit: PC apparently only gives you one year of non-competitive hiring status, I would downplay that benefit even more than I already have. Pompous Rhombus fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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