You get kidnapped by a militant group and are held captive for a month. Fortunately, the guys have a TV, and you bond with them while watching every episode of Friends ever made.

You spend a year in Africa begging headquarters for the medical equipment you need to make your schistosomiasis initiative a success. The equipment shows up two days before you're supposed a catch a flight back home.

Your sustainable farming program in Central America is a spectacular failure. You do, however, meet your future spouse on the bus back to Tegucigalpa.

You’ve applied to work in international aid at the United Nations thirty-nine times, and you've received thirty-nine rejection emails. Your stories from the field, however, make you the life of every party.

You run one of the world's foremost aid organizations dedicated to sustainable health delivery systems. You've written books and received accolades, but your proudest moment was when Bill Gates put you on speed dial.