Posted on 06/30/2010 3:07:38 PM PDT by beefree
There are many websites that promote joining the Peace Corps. A family member has asked me to research the subject and help her reach a decision about joining. I have found only a few sites with cautionary comments. I would like FReepers to help me balance the information with any negative feedback available.
btt
Aside from the occasional rapes and murders, its a perfectly safe job.
yes, OBAMA
As a former federal agent, I can tell you that you will never be a federal agent if you were a member of the peace corps. This was in 1990, dont know about now.
my liberal joined, went abroad, and came back as an ultra liberal.
My wife’s cousin (rich lib parents, lib cousin, from Denver area) graduated from Duke 3 years ago in theater, and like most people with worthless degrees, she had to find something to do. She joined the Peace Corps, was supported by her parents for a few years of traveling and doing whatever those people do, and is now back in the States, jobless, and still being supported by her parents.
A Duke education (theater degree) and the Peace Corps are her resume, and she can’t get an interview at the local Starbucks. So, like all rich libs, what do you suppose she’s going to do? You got it, graduate school for some other worthless degree.
Not sure if that helps, but I needed to get it off my chest and took the opportunity to do so. ;
Joining the Peace Corps might be good preparation for living in America in a few years.
It still applies today.
1. As a boy, my dad’s secretary was a total bombshell..hourglass figure, with all of the sand at the top. She felt bad about having it so good in a ritzy tourist town, and went to Central African Republic to help folks. Soon we received photos that showed, lo and behold, that the dictator and his cadre had taken a liking to her.
She disappeared, and we never saw her again.
2. My lab partner went to Ghana. She, too, was pretty. They didn’t have running water where she was, and so they’d bath at a local river. When she gave off signs of going to the river, the men would call out joyously to one another, alerting the mensfolk to the impending event.
As she bathed, they —the people she was helping— would masturbate, also eagerly calling to her to look before the instant of their final satisfaction.
They wanted to share, you know?
HAVE FUN!
besides being a government employee sucking at taxpayer wallets and being sent to prop up tyrannies?
nah.
My questions is what has Peace Corpse done to make life better in the third world hellholes that are still hellholes today?
Having bene in third world countries, I can note the natives make fun of peace corp people.
The men are for robbing. They women are gullible and easy lays.
If they want to change the world for the better, join the military. Like it or not, real peace is imposed at the barrel of a rifle in the third world.
If you ever need a security clearance ... you will have serious troubles.
Charity; money ceded by rich people and poor people to help really poor people
Foreign aid; money extracted from poor people in rich countries stolen by rich people in poor countries
My friends sister is in africa with the PC. Her emails consist of the story of the most recent native man or woman who has grabbed her boobs for no apparent reason. Seriously.
If my child were looking into the peace corps, I would push him/her toward missionary work instead.
SnakeDoc
The Peace Corps/Agent problem:
As an agent, you might come into contact with people who suspect the agent. If they dig deep enough, they might confirm the past Peace Corps membership.
THEN, baddies would draw a mental association between the two roles; “Peace Corps is merely a cover for agents of the Great Satan....”
For baddies, they would understand this cover, because it’s so natural that the Peace Corps idiots would live around Caudillos or African blood diamond guys, etc.
So the first thing they’d do is go around killing Peace Corps people for being “spies”....
This is also why some baddies like to zap liberal photoJournalists, etc —the job really seems a naturally cover for SF operators, spooks, etc.
And in fact that cover is sometimes used.
“If my child were looking into the peace corps, I would push him/her toward missionary work instead.
SnakeDoc”
Amen to that. I think the Catholic Charities and Mormon Missionaries do far more good than the commie Peace Corpse.
agree with the above comments about govt service
Peace Corp service means you wont be able to work in some govt agencies or for contractors that do certain work requiring security clearance
Think about what the world thinks of obama and the USA under obama, and think about whether you want to be a walking poster child for all that
If serving the poor abroad appeals to the heart, check out some of the MANY nongovt organizations including religious missions and organizations that are respected and really do fine work, like World Vision, Catholic Relief, medical groups, missions, and groups that work in many many schools and orphanages and serve under no political agenda
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