Can’t even remember where I came across this site, recently. But for anyone looking for a life adventure with some social meaning attached to it, Idealist.org appears to be a resource well worth checking out.
Founded as an “Idea list” for “idealists,” the site has a blog and, even more importantly, an impressive data bank of jobs, volunteer opportunities, and organizations that have some higher purpose of improving or changing the world attached to them.
Just to see what the site had to offer, I did a search for volunteer opportunities in Mongolia (9 results), jobs in Norway (1- a mediation expert for the Norwegian Refugee Council), and internships in Spain (1- a position in Environmental Appropriate Technologies and Eco Construction). That’s in addition to over 6,800 jobs, 8,800 volunteer opportunities, and 4200 internship positions available in the United States.
Even as a search tool to see what kinds of jobs or opportunities might exist, in an effort to ignite that spark of inspiration I wrote about in my last post, the site seems like a good place to spend some exploring, musing, and imagining time. Inspiration, after all, comes most often from stumbling across an idea or vision you hadn’t thought about, or known about, before.
And, really. Any kind of job or volunteer opportunity in Thailand (122), Botswana (5) or Bhutan (1) is bound to be an adventure. No matter what.
