Grace

"Instead of trying to do my career search that way, I thought more about the type of work environment that I would really thrive in and enjoy."

"I recruit volunteers for specific roles within our organization. I train them to fulfill that role and I keep them engaged so that they keep coming back and continue to provide that service for us free of charge."

"It really changes so much from day to day, which is one of the things I love about my job."

"In those moments of conflict...being able to truly be present and listen and take that feedback or positive or negative and be able to incorporate it into my work going forward is incredibly important."

"It's very much a pay it forward situation, and that's for sure my favorite part about my job."

"But once it's in place, it takes away from your workload because you've kind of offloaded it to others who are very happy to do it for you."

"I think that working for a nonprofit is just generally a really special experience."

"But definitely that personal accountability, that personal responsibility for what you do."

"You kind of have to accept lots of different personalities in order to have this organization succeed as a whole."

"If you're interested in working with people and you see a role that's new events manager, adoption operations manager or something like that, that doesn't necessarily sound super people focused. If it has volunteer coordination, volunteer management in the description, you will often get great exposure to something like that"

"Tomorrow is a new day. There's always going to be a day where nothing goes right...you just have to leave it yesterday, and then when you come in the next day, you just try and do better and move forward."

"I think I tried to expose myself to as many different opportunities as possible. Not even necessarily career opportunities."

"But then it also kind of had me reflect on, oh man, why did I even have to be like that in the first place?"