Pros
Unclear if there are any. Perhaps, it taught me to better handle a micro-managing supervisor and organizational inertia. And I can say it taught me to trust my intuition during the interview phase, and to listen more closely if I hear or see potential "red flags" that might make working somewhere a truly miserable experience.
Cons
An executive leadership team (I use those words ironically) that is more concerned about "MY budget, MY staff, MY team size, my my my..." than 1)the members who pay their salary 2)the team of staff that put them (and keep them) at the ET level 3)any short-or longer-term future and viability of the association, or the industry ASAE is supposed to represent. Leadership team is way too busy flitting all around the world, posing for social media posts, and cutting the few benefits that remain to lower level employees than actually "leading." The focus is squarely on generating profit, regardless of how tone deaf and flat-out gauging it is to current members, donors, and/or young professionals. I've been gone for just about one year and I still wake up thinking I am late for my 60+ hour work weeks, and from nightmares where I am begging my supervisor to listen to me, as it falls on deaf ears. I have a lot of education and brought years of experience to my position at ASAE, but a micro-managing boss turned me into a glorified assistant (nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that it wasn't the job as described in the job description, and I never trained for or received education to make me a great executive assistant or to excel at a position like that). At my first review, I was expressly told that I shouldn't try to do the job I was hired for, so that my supervisor could focus on strategy. After that I threw my hands up and worked on trying to get out as fast as I could.
