Consider these facts to begin with. Fundraising gives you the chance to experiment with strategies. Of course, fundraising does have its drawbacks. As with any difficult job, you have to be able to handle lots of tasks at the same time. In most organizations the fundraising staff has a lot of responsibility with very little authority.
People tend to blame the fundraising department for everything that goes wrong in the organization.
People who have no knowledge of fundraising have unrealistic ideas of how much money can be raised in short periods of time. They tend to believe that all the organization's problems can be solved by finding previously unknown, but very large foundations to get grants from, or by meeting lonely, generous and previously unsolicited rich people. A woman I worked with in the past recently wrote to tell me that she had left her fundraising position to take a job as an advocate in an agency serving homeless mentally ill adults. I can't do this fundraising anymore. I know that we need organizers and attorneys and social workers.