Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jul-2015 07:53 <=-

$7 an hour...? That's $7 more than I ever got volunteering... ;)
All my volunteering was for free, and largely not even recognized...
:)

Wait a sec, I can't remember if I corrected this or not now. I
might have paused at a message so long that I missed it when the BBS autologged me out if I wasn't watching pointers carefully...

I think this is the first correction here... :)

The work that I was talking about wasn't volunteer; I must've had
not nearly enough coffee in me when I made that message. It was
501(c)3 non-profit charity work.

Ah, that makes much better sense... :)

I've done some volunteer work in my
time, as well. Not a whole lot, but the unsung stuff that needs to be done on some days with nothing else going on. Plus multiple times when I've been out shoveling for others in the upper midwest where I just figured hell, this neighbor is older, this neighbor has health
problems, why not just do the whole face of the block?

That's more the sort of volunteer work I end up doing... :) Or the
sort that my hubby ends up doing, too...

Volunteer work has its benefits, and is probably something I should
look into more than just at Free Geek around here, but the work that
I was referencing there was really, _really_ underpaid interview specialist work for determining which applicants weren't fraudulently seeking funds and then, as funding was available, allocating and dispersing those funds to those who were truly in need.

That sort of work usually is way underpaid, since the agencies involved
don't have much to work with...

I was always amazed that I made at much at that job as I did at
McD's as a trainee at the same time. Until I'd been at McD's for a month. Then I was making less helping those in desperate need than I
was poisoning those who wanted their cooked pink slime. :|

I know... ironic, isn't it... ;(

ttyl neb

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Re: volunteering was: misc and parents (etc
By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sun Jul 26 2015 00:14:18

I think this is the first correction here... :)

Well I'm glad I made sure that I did it then. ;)

not nearly enough coffee in me when I made that message. It was
501(c)3 non-profit charity work.

Ah, that makes much better sense... :)

Yeah the whole paid volunteer thing, while bringing back some memories of that 'working' contradiction in the army, didn't make a whole lot of sense really. ;)

has health problems, why not just do the whole face of the block?

That's more the sort of volunteer work I end up doing... :) Or the
sort that my hubby ends up doing, too...

That's the best sort, IMO. I mean going into different places that need volunteers to be able to help people out is great, too, but helping unexpectedly is a feeling that doesn't exactly match it, IMO.

That sort of work usually is way underpaid, since the agencies involved don't have much to work with...

For sure. It's pretty terrible, as we both alluded to below.

month. Then I was making less helping those in desperate need than
I was poisoning those who wanted their cooked pink slime. :|

I know... ironic, isn't it... ;(

It certainly is telling about some different values in this society, if nothing else. Such a shame that we spend enough on war to feed and house the entire planet. We've got the wrong people in charge (or more likely, too many beheaded chickens thinking that they're all in charge).

-D
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