Pros
-The organization actually IS making a huge difference for patients and research in a field that has little support. Working there means you are ultimately on the team that is doing that. -Office is nice, in a nice location -If you are willing to brown-nose & never say no to the right people, you'll be able to ride your way to the top. -At some point you will probably have the title manager, it is given out liberally. -You might actually be in meetings so much that you never have to do real work.
Cons
-You might be asked to violate labor laws if you're an hourly employee (I was!) and then become the "problem child" if you refuse. -You will likely be screamed/yelled at by almost anyone at the executive level. -You'll be in meetings so much that you don't have time to do real work, so you'll get to stay until 8pm to do that. -With every restructure, you'll get a little bit more work added to your plate and then one day you'll stumble across your original job description on the shared drive and not even recognize it. -You'll also get to watch the executive team/J. Fleshman make horrific choices for the organization that will ultimately lead to it's demise (like spending money before it is raised on a program that's entire purpose isn't even decided on) without being able to do anything. And you'll be expected to continue to be a ra-ra cheerleader to motivate volunteers/raise more money despite knowing it is being squandered on unintelligible, grandiose, vague visions.