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My point is that you might be trying to fill a wrong position.
A qualified part-time volunteer coordinator can do orders of magnitude more good for a non-profit than a full time staff member working on their own. Consider, for example, the VanDusen Botanical Garden. All grounds-keeping and nearly all activities are done by volunteers, with a single coordinator on staff. Some of these volunteer jobs, like the Master Gardener, would be equivalent to probably $50/hr on an open market, maybe more. Some smaller organizations even go one level up, and have a volunteer volunteer coordinator.
Of course, it is harder to properly parcel the jobs in the SI than those in gardening. Then again, none of you in the SI do what you do because you wanted it easy.
Next step up is the volunteer volunteer volunteer coordinator coordinator.
In a meeting this morning I suggested that my company was well on its way to needing a development process management suggestion management process manager. Nobody actually threw anything at me, which I attribute to my having been on the phone.
I am amused by the fact that both of these reports obey the rule - universal in my experience so far - that "All infinite recursions are at most three levels deep."
Three?
Hm.
By my parsing, it's ((((((development process) management) suggestion) management) process) manager)... that is, a manager for the process of managing suggestions for managing the process of development. What's your parsing?
Of course, it isn't embedded, which makes it much more parseable.
"The goat the cat the dog the stick the fire the water the cow the butcher slaughtered drank extinguished consumed hit ate bit was purchased for the two zuzim my father spent" is a different matter.
Recursion technically implies means “doing something to (something derived from) the result of doing that same thing earlier”, not just “doing stuff repeatedly”. There are three “management” steps above.
You're right, of course. I was thinking about nesting depth. Thanks for the correction.
One can derive an obvious corollary to this rule...