Peace Corps or other organization?

[smk]

I am thinking about joining the peace corps between college and high school or after college. Do any of you have any first or second-hand experience with the peace corps? Are there any other similar organizations which I should take a look at?
I have a working knowledge of spanish if that helps.

Thanks for any help!

[MarxSchmarx]

Most people wait until after they graduate university to do something like this. The organizations I also believe aren't as ready to accept people right out of high school as they believe college graduates tend to be more mature and may have some useful skillset that high schoolers aren't likely to have.

[ellipsis]

Peace Corps=working for the U.S. federal government, as a REPRESENTATIVE of the U.S. federal government. But there are plenty of similar experiences/programs that are private.

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

Don't join the Peace Corps. Here's a good reason why:


More than 1,000 young American women have been raped or sexually assaulted in the last decade while serving as Peace Corps volunteers in foreign countries, an ABC News 20/20 (http://abcnews.go.com/2020) investigation (http://abcnews.go.com/blotter) has found.

In some cases, victims say, the Peace Corps has ignored safety concerns and later tried to blame the women who were raped for bringing on the attacks.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peace-corps-gang-rape-volunteer-jess-smochek-us/story?id=12599341

[Aspiring Humanist]

You actually want to work for the United States government? I understand if you want to travel or defer student loans but they have you in a building doing paperwork and bureaucratic shit, not actually helping the locals.

[smk]

You actually want to work for the United States government? I understand if you want to travel or defer student loans but they have you in a building doing paperwork and bureaucratic shit, not actually helping the locals.

This is why I am looking for a different organization

[AnonymousOne]

I am thinking about joining the peace corps between college and high school or after college. Do any of you have any first or second-hand experience with the peace corps? Are there any other similar organizations which I should take a look at?
I have a working knowledge of spanish if that helps.

Thanks for any help!

Second-hand. I had a brother who did it after college. He was a urban planning major so he helped figure out where wells should go, sanitation etc. He seemed to enjoy the experience and a lot of employers were very impressed by it on the resume.