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
agree with the above comments about govt service
Peace Corp service means you wont ever 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
it kept Chris Matthews out of the military during Vietnam
Forgot to answer the question....Yes, a big Negative!
Disease, dysentary, violence (especially for women), bugs, sleeping outside, muggy crappy weather.
There is no room service. It ain’t vacation. It’s work. And it accomplishes little.
Tell her to join the military.
As a recovering ex-hippie, I will admit that I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand from 1977-1979. It was, in a way, the “hardest job” I could do at the time. I came back with a Thai wife and a whole different outlook on life. I hobnobbed with the farmers and we called BS on the government functionaries and so forth. I do believe I made friends and got a wee bit of respect, from high placed supporters of the King of Thailand to common Thai farmers. The latter are my favorites. :)
The peace corps was created for those without the stones to join the military.
I’d advise the youngster to really serve the country or stay out of the conversation. But that’s just me.
They are done with their service and despise anything and everything Jamaican. Said that the average person was not the least bit interested in helping themselves out or trying to improve their surroundings or life. They all wanted handouts, were lazy, filthy hated whites and acted as if the PC workers owed them.
Have no idea what kind of treatment they received from the Jamaican men so I've no comment. They also said it was like living in a sewer 24-7.
He'd meet these girls when they'd approach his medical site and begged for medicine to clean out the worms they were suffering from. Also asked for other types of medicine and supplies they desperately needed for themselves.
He had heard stories of some of these girls being told to exchange “ favors “ for treatment and supplies. Horrible.
Thanks for all your input. I hope to make an effective argument against joining the Peace Corps.
Don’t know a whole lot about the Peace Corps. My cousin was tortured, raped and murdered while serving in Africa. The world is not a happy place. I feel like my cousin was a sitting duck.
If she wants to serve the poor and/or abused, why not help out organizations serving in the US? We have so many girls and women from Central and South America being used and abused by human smugglers.
There are plenty of private, world-wide charitable organizations (World Vision, Habitat for Humanity, Feed the Children, Doctors Without Borders, Smile, etc., etc., and some often faith-based or dominated by people of faith) that perform every kind of humanitarian and development assistance you can imagine. You don’t need to join a politically organized, government organized outfit to “give back”, anywhere around the world.
Don’t worry, no matter HOW you help others, those you help will know YOU are an American and will see you as a face for your country. The “Peace Corps” name tag is not required.
None, so long as you don’t mind being a collaborationist, or a “good German.”
He thought this service would give him a leg up in being hired with oceanography degree in hand.
It did not,, he eventual became a bar tender, then restaurant manager...
I know many folks who have served in the Peace Corps. I do not know what they were like before, but they are all kumbaya moonbats now. It defninitely sems to foster an obamunistic “there’s nothing special about Amerikkka” mindset.
NO! One of my students, Nancy Coutu, was raped and murdered in Africa while in the Peace Corps.
http://www.fpcv.org/nancy_coutu.htm
I know exactly one person who served in the Peace Corp. She went to Africa and came back with elephantiasis. There’s no cure. Disease is a big risk in the 3rd world.
Every one of them is a flaming liberal.
My niece with a BS in Biology from great name university left a high paying job here to join the Peace Corps. She was assigned to the Philippines. She loved it. She got to do an extensive amount of traveling and scuba diving. She even signed up for extended time there. She fell in love with a co worker and has moved back with him. Now she works as a waitress because she hasn’t been able to find a job in her field of study, lives in her boyfriend’s family’s home and still has tons of debt in student loans.
Thanks for your response. Deferring student loan payments for 2 years is not a good idea, neither is joining the Peace Corps, IMO.
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