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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:15:52 -0600
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Feb. 23, 2016


WHAT TO KNOW NOW


Life after aid: Beating the addiction



By Nate Rabe

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Leaving the aid world has been likened to escaping from a cult. I
prefer to think of it as overcoming an addiction. There are three
options available to us disgruntled, burned out and cynical
humanitarians: cold turkey, the gradual withdrawal or death. The same
options any old junkie has, whether addicted to drugs, alcohol or aid.
The grip is hard to break.












Photo by: Nathan Rabe





A lucky few go cold turkey.
They wander into the party for a few years, have a good time, work in
a couple of major operations, then announce they are going back to
carpentry.
Or that they intend to head back to school to study something unrelated.
Aid for them is but one of the many phases of life.


At the other end of the spectrum are those who have the decision made for them.
Aid workers are no longer — if we ever were — immune from targeted
violence, with murders and kidnappings of aid workers on the rise.

But even when the worst doesn't happen, emotional exhaustion or exotic
diseases can stop a career on a dime.
One dear friend told me, "My departure from Afghanistan was not planned.
I went on R&R and simply didn't go back.
I could not get back on the plane.
Signing off on wells where there is no water just so the U.S.
military can get access to the area and being bullied by alcoholic
political appointees was too much to take."

One of the most brilliant minds and dedicated policy wonks I know, the
man responsible for landing me my first job in the sector, was
debilitated by a rare blood disease he
picked up in Sri Lanka.
His steady rise in the World Bank and indeed, all future employment,
ceased in his mid-40s.

The middle way — the one I chose — is the well-trodden path of
gradual, planned, rescheduled and repeatedly delayed departure.






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