What's your favorite Volunteer work? What are the pros and cons of doing it?

Asked By: BiForce 26-30 6 months ago

feel free to write about more than one type of work, including political/social movements that you are passionate about.

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Posted by SJM2 Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:34PM

People sometimes find this surprising, but I love volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. Working in an office day in and day out, and when I was in school studying and doing homework all the time, I've really enjoyed being able to do something more physically challenging. It's also great because you get to see the actual results of your efforts as the houses come together, and the people who will be living in the finished houses work alongside of you, so you get to meet the people you are helping, as well as other volunteers. I always find it very rewarding.

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Posted by SpiritOfTheRabbit Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:20PM

I'm most passionate about animal rescue, simply because they have no voice. A child can report to someone if she/he is being abused, and a adult can tell the cops. But an animal has no choice and barely any rights.

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Posted by coloco Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:14PM

Animal shelters, pros, feel good about making a difference, cons, worry about bring home a disease.

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Reply by BiForce Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:32PM

is it a no kill shelter? I always thought seeing animals be put down would be the saddest part.
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Reply by coloco Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:36PM

It is no kill, otherwise I would have a lot more cats, dogs, horses etc. I am at 6 cats now but I would make room. Not sure how they would take it
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Posted by Spann0r Oct 24th, 2012 at 4:03PM

I never did volunteer work, because when ever I have seen someone do any kind of volunteer work, it was always a thankless task. People were bitching about them not doing enough or not doing it flawlessly... even though they did it for free in their free time, people expected them to work like they get paid for it.

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Posted by SoftCoreBoy Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:13PM

Free/open software development. It is fun at the same time as it create work in development countries where a $7000 license for a professional application is like a joke.

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Reply by BiForce Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:44PM

Thank you for helping people around the world. Even in the US, I find a $7000 license for a pro-application to be nuts. That would take me a while to pay off. So thank you, again! :)
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Posted by KayKai Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:11PM

I help teach kids class at my dojo.

The Pros: teaching kids aikido. I get to jump and roll on the mat a lot. Seeing the hilarious serious-face of a seven year old about to kick my ***. I get free lessons for helping out.

Cons: ...Nothing really.

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Posted by Anonymous2day Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:08PM

Pros - sense of accomplishment. Cons - they only want more from you.

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Posted by B3lla01 Oct 24th, 2012 at 2:06PM

Teaching is my favorite.

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