Want to spice up your experience in the office? Here’s a satirical guide for those development workers stuck at HQ
You had it all figured out,didn’t you? You were going to fight the good fight, join an NGO, or travel the world fighting injustice and posing with bedraggled children like an Instagram-era Sally Struthers. (whether you could produce just one of them smile,you told your admiring friends, it would all be worth it.) Now contemplate at you: stuck at a desk, or in the west,concealing a copy of Dead Aid inside a cover for The End of Poverty. No, development isn’t all air miles and romance at least not for the thousands of us who study, or research or work in development in the UK. But don’t let that end you from doing the work that makes your colleagues’ jet-setting adventures possible. On the contrary,squint tough enough and you’ll be right there with them.
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Source: theguardian.com