One question I get from time to time is, “Why retail?” I can understand the confusion; it doesn’t seem to fit with all the other experience I have, and it certainly isn’t related to the public policy career I aspire toward. However, I don’t believe that retail experience (depending on what it is) should always be brushed off as useless. In fact, many of the skills one learns as a customer service associate are skills that are necessary to succeed in the nonprofit world.
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