hah! I did a VISTA year and my attitude was VERY similar to yours. the whole program is kind of a joke. managed very poorly. I finished the whole year and I guess I'm glad I did, but things in work-life have gotten nothing but better since I finished! the travel was unobjectively the best part of Americorps - I got to go to Atlanta, Mississippi, and Seattle during my year. the no-second-job thing is some bullshit, I hustled extra money on Craigslist doing odd jobs for people, but nobody at my org really cared so...
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hah! I did a VISTA year and my attitude was VERY similar to yours. the whole program is kind of a joke. managed very poorly. I finished the whole year and I guess I'm glad I did, but things in work-life have gotten nothing but better since I finished! the travel was unobjectively the best part of Americorps - I got to go to Atlanta, Mississippi, and Seattle during my year. the no-second-job thing is some bullshit, I hustled extra money on Craigslist doing odd jobs for people, but nobody at my org really cared so...