NONPROFIT BURNOUT: IS YOUR ADVENTURE WINDOW CLOSED?
Nonprofit Burnout by pam ashlund PART IV - NONPROFIT EYE BURNOUT SERIES Cross posted from a differnt perspective in my El Loro blog in the post Don't Want to Work for the Man Don’t it always seem to go/You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone — Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell Somethings comin’ something good…who knows? — Westside Story I've written about Burnout (see series at end of article) before. Certainly, burnout is not unique to the nonprofit sector, but it has indirectly been on the radar recently re: the changing of the guard, the baby boomer effect of nonprofits, the "are we mentoring a group to replace our current leaders as they retire? Who wants to talk about that? Normally not I because I still find the prospect of my own retirement (and mortality in general) depressing. The truth is, that even now (possibly 20 years before retirement), I feel worn out. Words to the effect of “my soul is dying” come to mind. Of course I mainly have these feelings in the...