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Brooke, the director of the Camfed USA office where I work three days a week, has asked me to work full-time, which would mean quitting the bakery (which means no more yummy goodies), and also no longer tutoring. I can see myself no longer working at the bakery--it doesn't pay very much, and there's really no prospect for significant advancement in any important way. What you see me doing is what I do, and that is selling cake. But at Camfed*, although I largely do things like get the mail, send faxes, format documents, send form thank-you letters to donors, and other less interesting things with no direct correlation to the guiding mission, the office is so small that I can see what other people are doing, and I know that because they don't have to do things like spend two hours addressing envelopes, they can do other things like arrange meetings with filmmakers who can create movies for social change that have a tremendous impact in Africa. Also, the director of the US office told me that I would start working on more important tasks, too, like help generate reports of progress and perhaps even grant proposals, and that's very tempting.**

( Cut for verbosity. As always )