{"id":3859,"date":"2016-02-09T16:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:39:55","slug":"my-dream-jobs-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/02\/my-dream-jobs-sigh.html","title":{"rendered":"My dream jobs (sigh. . .)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Every now and again, a person or organization I follow on twitter tweets out job opportunities.<\/p>\n

This time, I\u2019ve got two jobs that are sitting in perpetually-open browser tabs, jobs that I keep looking at longingly, even though my resume\u2019s far too thin to apply. \u00a0But I\u2019ll tell you about them, and then I\u2019ll resolutely close those tabs, \u2019til next time.<\/p>\n

Job #1: \u00a0Research Analyst, Religion (International Surveys)<\/a> at the Pew Research Center. \u00a0Requires three years of experience in a research capacity, plus experience with SPSS, which I presume to be some kind of statistical analysis software. \u00a0Plus, the job posting doesn\u2019t explicitly say it\u2019s a full time position in D.C., but it\u2019s improbable that it\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

Job #2: \u00a0OK, it\u2019s not actually a job, but rather a fellowship, for the New America Fellows Program<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Our goal in the Fellows Program is to find bold, iconoclastic thinkers and to fund them for one to two years, long enough so that they can write a book, develop a series of articles, make a documentary, or work on another project that would be accessible to a broad audience and long enough to be able to build a real community among the fellows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes! \u00a0I would love to have the time, and the access to resources, to write a book. \u00a0I even know what book I would write (imagining I had the skill set to write it, which mostly means the people skills to sit down with strangers who\u2019d understandably be suspicious of a nerdy white woman): \u00a0a series of in-depth profiles of honest-to-goodness poor people, that, combined with some data analysis, attempts to provide my own answer to the bigger questions of how to help. \u00a0I\u2019m thinking, for instance, of the efforts to bring grocery stores to \u201cfood deserts\u201d and the report, afterwards, that, as much as the inner-city poor may not have easy access to grocery stores with fresh produce, they don\u2019t actually have McDonalds at every streetcorner, either, and, in fact, their access to fast food isn\u2019t any better than their access to produce \u2014 but their consumption of fast food has as much to do with the difficulty of preparing home-cooked meals when you\u2019re poor, commuting long hours, etc., as the availability of ingredients. \u00a0When I saw this, it seemed to me that no one was really talking to affected people except to hear what they wanted to hear. \u00a0Or maybe I\u2019m a dunce.<\/p>\n

But, still! \u00a0What\u2019s your dream job?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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