Do You Ever Volunteer?

WOW! Way to go!

Thanks it was super easy and fun.

It always is when you do it with your heart.

And was taken advantage of, more was expected of me and I was treated worse than I ever was at a paying job!

Sometimes, depends on my past experience on who I am volunteering for and what we were doing before.

Yep...Work days at Church(when sch. permits). Always giving neighbors a hand.

What about gay neighbors?

I occasionally will buy them a drink.......

I have a Lesbian neighbor, and YES I help her too...!

I enjoy Volunteering and helping my community and give back something

Not nearly as much as I'd like.

Not as much as I like, my charity always seems to have its events on the weekends that I have to work.

Whenever I can, and in several different ways. There are a lot of people in need out there and it doesn't take much for you to change lives, and you might find your life changed in the process. And if you're not a people person, there are other things you can do to serve people, packing meals, collecting and donating food/clothing/etc. Especially at this time of year, several warehouses need help, Toys For Tots, Operation Christmas Child and the like...

I will say though, I have a hard time with "mandatory" volunteer work... kind of takes the meaning out of "volunteering". Volunteering should be from the heart, not because you are required.

we have to do a minimum of 20 hours of community service for school

I'm a Lion. We do a lot of volunteer work.

I thought Lions ate people :O

They do but we're a different breed.

I once did. I was a volunteer fireman for years, even chief for several years, but decided to leave that to the younger crowd now. I helped coach a softball team for the mentally handicapped. I have headed groups to clean up the two cemetaries in my town several times. I have picked up trash along the roads many times. I manned the hot line at the mental health center in the past. Now I have two kids with special needs and spend a lot of time with them. I also work six days a week. That doesn't leave me much time to volunteer any more.

I volunteer at a local soup kitchen every Friday.

You bet.

help with security at a half dozen local festivals; help at two local hospitals, the Red Cross, and a shelter

I volunteer on several charities and have been doing this for quite a few years.

Yes- Mostly for Children's Agencies, and some elderly one's too!

I have no time to volunteer but I look at what I get paid for my job and I know I volunteer part of my wage to special needs i work with.:)

but not as much as I would like.

Sometimes..I like helping out.

Too much.

Frequently and for various things.

I tutor twice a week - ESL; and I'm on the board of a neighborhood organization. That pretty much eats up my volunteer time although I'd love to be able to do more.

LOL! Shame

I have volunteered my time many places, many years. I was a Red Cross volunteer, volunteered my time at an orphan's home while living in Africa. I volunteer to run arts & crafts groups. I volunteered in political campaigns, making my own signs, hanging them all over counties. I volunteer at senior centers, hospitals. I volunteer to be an officer on different clubs. Whenever a need I try to volunteer.

I forgot about political volunteerism. I've got decades of that behind me....

yes

I may not be able to give what I would like to charity, so volunteering my time and talents helps make up for that.

Totally.

Good for you!