This sounds like an interesting opportunity! I’m going to be returning to the States from Peace Corps service pretty soon, and I’ve been considering options for what to do next. I’ll look into this one a little more closely.
One question, though: how hard would it be for me to be a vegan in the outback? I’m willing to spend more money on food than typical to maintain a vegan diet; variety and quality of food is more of a concern to me than cost.
Congrats on your Peace Corps work! Where have you been?
Vegetarians were catered to at my workplace so I’d guess that you could get the meals modified to be vegan at most workplaces in the outback too. As my post implies, Australia is pretty ridiculously worker friendly. Worst case scenario I could imagine is they would let you go in the kitchen and make your own stuff if you needed substitutions on days the chef forgot to cook you an alternative meal.
My post is in Jamaica. Probably there were more efficient charitron generating paths available to me than Peace Corps, but speaking from a personal perspective it’s been satisfying and educational. In particular, being out here and seeing what a little expertise applied in just the right place can do has firmly changed my major life goal from “Do really interesting IT stuff” to “Do IT stuff that effectively helps make the world a better place.”
Glad to hear that the meal situation is so accommodating out there. If there were other vegetarians/vegans at your workplace too, that also makes me think I’m likely to not be the only one there with weird meal preferences, which will help make me feel like I’m not imposing unduly.
This sounds like an interesting opportunity! I’m going to be returning to the States from Peace Corps service pretty soon, and I’ve been considering options for what to do next. I’ll look into this one a little more closely.
One question, though: how hard would it be for me to be a vegan in the outback? I’m willing to spend more money on food than typical to maintain a vegan diet; variety and quality of food is more of a concern to me than cost.
Congrats on your Peace Corps work! Where have you been?
Vegetarians were catered to at my workplace so I’d guess that you could get the meals modified to be vegan at most workplaces in the outback too. As my post implies, Australia is pretty ridiculously worker friendly. Worst case scenario I could imagine is they would let you go in the kitchen and make your own stuff if you needed substitutions on days the chef forgot to cook you an alternative meal.
My post is in Jamaica. Probably there were more efficient charitron generating paths available to me than Peace Corps, but speaking from a personal perspective it’s been satisfying and educational. In particular, being out here and seeing what a little expertise applied in just the right place can do has firmly changed my major life goal from “Do really interesting IT stuff” to “Do IT stuff that effectively helps make the world a better place.”
Glad to hear that the meal situation is so accommodating out there. If there were other vegetarians/vegans at your workplace too, that also makes me think I’m likely to not be the only one there with weird meal preferences, which will help make me feel like I’m not imposing unduly.