Re:What to do after you sell your company and retire
by cooks on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:46PM
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Greenspun has interesting things to say on occasion. It's a pity he feels the need to be such an ass:
"The folks who work at a non-profit organization are very interested in drawing a salary higher than their skills and working hours would command at a for-profit enterprise subject to competition. They are not especially interested in efficiency or accomplishment. "
I know several people who work at Cambridge nonprofits. They all earn about 1/3 what they could at comparable for-profit jobs. They do so out of a sense of passion for the mission of the nonprofit. Their lives have more purpose than, say, tooling around in airplanes.
"The folks who work at a non-profit organization are very interested in drawing a salary higher than their skills and working hours would command at a for-profit enterprise subject to competition. They are not especially interested in efficiency or accomplishment. "
I know several people who work at Cambridge nonprofits. They all earn about 1/3 what they could at comparable for-profit jobs. They do so out of a sense of passion for the mission of the nonprofit. Their lives have more purpose than, say, tooling around in airplanes.