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Why to Join Peace Corps?

Should I join the Peace Corps?

  • I was talking with my coworker lastnight, I was telling him how I really want to travel and he told me to look into joining the peace corps. If I join the peace corps I would have to quit my job and I know the work is all volunteering. My question is, how can I join the corps and still make money? Traveling and helping people seem fun but I still need an income.

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    There is a difference between working abroad and traveling. The Peace Corps will put you in a distant place for 2 years. (You usually train in the capital of your host country, then get sent to upriver to work.) You don't usually go very far from your base. I didn't leave Sarawak in the two years I was a PCV, and there were months I didn't go more than 15 miles from my school. You get what they call a "living allowance", which lets you live at a modest level; you take the bus instead of having a car and don't eat in fancy restaurants. You may or may not have running water and electricity 24 hours a day. You don't join, you apply. In 2008 they had 11,000 applications and invited 4,000 people to become trainees. 20% - 40% of all trainees wash out or quit before becoming PCVs.

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You don't know what Peace Corps is, do you? It's not "traveling and helping people." It's being transported to a foreign land, yes, but that's not travel. That's community service and WORK. It's hard work, too. You're all alone, sometimes you barely have a job description but are expected to walk in and produce results. During my first year, I worked -- no kidding -- seven days a week, about 70 hours. I was exhausted. I did not travel. I walked from my house to one workplace or another multiple times a day. You're not destitute, though. Oh, in comparison to the US, you are but you are given a stipend enough to live on. I saved a little but not US money. If you think you are really interested in it and it's not just some passing thought put into your brain by someone who doesn't really know anything about it (I've learned that the ONLY people who really know about PC are people who've served -- believe me, RPCVs do NOT tell *everything* to *anyone.*), get the book So You Want to Join the Peace Corps - What to Know Before You Go. But right now for you, I'd say no, you shouldn't join the Peace Corps. You need to educate yourself about it first. Good luck.

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You will be paid a wage to enable yourself adequate living. Its not completely voluntary. check this site out on the internet. http://www.peacecorps.gov/ How do I know anything about the Corps. My daughter went to Africa for two years and I visited her while she was there, so I think I have a faint insight into what the Peace Corps is about.

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You can take on a part time job.

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