Is volunteering to work in Marketing Intelligence for Oxfam considered below someone with an Economics degree?
2 aspects here – your career and volunteering for Oxfam and the feeling of having done a worthy deed. However, you personally need to get satisfaction from this. If there’s no satisfaction, almost no point volunteering, I’d say. On to career, depends on where you see yourself going. Generally speaking, people who work in with charities and the public sector find it more difficult to switch to the private sector at a later date. So worth considering the implications longer term. However, bear in mind that it’s by no means impossible to switch – it’s just a general trend that can be broken.
