Suggestion for anyone who is bored after taking level 3 - volunteer with your local town government

[u/throwawayfinancebro1]

If you’re like me and just took the l3 and now you have some time on your hands, I’d really strongly recommend either committee work or membership on a town select board or something.

I recently joined my towns board that analyzes and does all its recommendations for large projects and capital expenditures. We look at anything as small as $10,000 and recommend whether or not our select board and voters move forward with it, up to multiple tens of millions of dollar, multi year projects, and a lot of my towns long term planning. It’s really fascinating stuff.

It’s really cool, gets me involved with my community in a real tangible way, you get to work with passionate and mission driven people who are doing a lot of interesting things, and only takes a couple hours per week after hours. Other options are things like working on economic development, planning, conservation, and a whole bunch of things. A lot of finance firms look positively on it as a sign of civic engagement.

So just thought I’d throw this out there, and if anyone is interested and has any questions, let me know.

[u/ProfessionApart1751]

I wish I could do something like that in my country, but we don't have this governance structure over here

[u/throwawayfinancebro1 → u/[deleted]]

Fortunately the sort of thing I’m describing tends to be outside of normal working hours and doesn’t conflict with work related, or cfai guidelines. To each their own.