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Volunteer work?
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I have not done much volunteer work in my life and I suddenly feel the need to do something.

How many of you volunteer? What did/do you do?

Any stories?


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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i am a volunteer drug peddler. I help friends get rid of stuff, and help friends get stuff at no profit to me.

does that count?

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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Growing up I was a volunteer for a women's special olympics team for 2 seasons (my mothers friend was the head coach)

Next fall Im going to be a volunteer assistant coordinator for ASU's football program.

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: KillerPicklez]
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ive voluntered at my local humane society for the past 5 1/2 years. everything from fostering dogs to walking them to helping build the new shelter last year. i put in a good 15 hrs there a week.

i also started voluntering at the united way last year doing the meals on wheels program. thats where we deliver meals to elderly people during the holidays who have no family for free. we sit and chat with them for awhile too its great.

and being a union plumber its mandatory that in the summer we do the water off program where we fix leaky faucets and such for free for a day and in the winter its the heats on program where we fix furnaces for free for a day.

there is nothing better than voluntering man. i was trying really hard to get into the peace corps before i met my wife but there criteria is so damn high.

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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I sometimes volunteer at something called the "miracle league"

It's a baseball league for handicapped children. You get buddied up with a kid and help them out batting and fielding. Everyone gets to hit the ball and make it around the bases. It's always really fun and fulfilling.

Good choice to start volunteering somewhere!


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: blood4blood]
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blood4blood said:
ive voluntered at my local humane society for the past 5 1/2 years. everything from fostering dogs to walking them to helping build the new shelter last year. i put in a good 15 hrs there a week.

i also started voluntering at the united way last year doing the meals on wheels program. thats where we deliver meals to elderly people during the holidays who have no family for free. we sit and chat with them for awhile too its great.

and being a union plumber its mandatory that in the summer we do the water off program where we fix leaky faucets and such for free for a day and in the winter its the heats on program where we fix furnaces for free for a day.

there is nothing better than voluntering man. i was trying really hard to get into the peace corps before i met my wife but there criteria is so damn high.


Ive thought about getting involved with the United Way for a very long time now I just never have the time right now.

Kudos to you for all the volunteer work you do, I really hope I can find the time in my schedule to work with United Way over this summer.

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: KillerPicklez]
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yea they're a great charity. very strong to the town they have ties too. the salvation army is also another good one. when a tornado ravished my town 10 years ago they were there throughout the WHOLE rebuilding process. its great to see people come together like that

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: blood4blood]
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Volunteering is awesome. I haven't done any for a long time but I used to work with handicapped kids at a riding stable. The best part was seeing how happy they were and what amazing progress some of them made. I loved it and I'd still be doing it now, but I started having fainting spells so it wasn't safe anymore.

The Salvation Army does some great things too. I hope to audition for their professional brass band in the next year or so. :grin:


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: mayfly]
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I'm currently trying to get into either the Americorps or the Peacecorps.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: PyroBurns]
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I helped build an orphanage in Mexico awhile back.

Also spent some time with the kids entertaining and such.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: mushbaby]
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I volunteered at a pantry assistance place (they gave away groceries to poor families). It was mostly about organizing a storeroom and carrying big boxes of stuff around.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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My school requires 20 hours of community service per year, total of 80 hours. I just helped elderly with computers and bingo. It is required so idk if it counts. The first couple times you do it you feel pretty good about yourself though.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: blood4blood]
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blood4blood said:
ive voluntered at my local humane society for the past 5 1/2 years.


Lucky! I e-mailed there once and said I'd be available whenever they wanted me and for whatever, and a woman from the local one just emailed me back all high and mighty and bluntly said they didn't want volunteers. The HS/SPCA here is just really...snotty if you ask me. They're very high on themselves because they help the animals, but every other adoption service around is so much more kind. Is yours even remotely like that? 8)

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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The only 'volunteering' i've ever done was for court. :shrug:


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: terrortwilight]
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terrortwilight said:
blood4blood said:
ive voluntered at my local humane society for the past 5 1/2 years.


Lucky! I e-mailed there once and said I'd be available whenever they wanted me and for whatever, and a woman from the local one just emailed me back all high and mighty and bluntly said they didn't want volunteers. The HS/SPCA here is just really...snotty if you ask me. They're very high on themselves because they help the animals, but every other adoption service around is so much more kind. Is yours even remotely like that? 8)


we'ed take you in a heartbeat! we are the only county in a 7 county region that DOESNT youthinize pets. dont believe in it. so we get a massive influx of pets that need help from all those countys. it keeps us on our toes. we just got 11 puppies that somebody (asshole) left down by the river to basically die. i live in mn it gets fucing cold here.

meh, take your warmth in your heart somewhere else if the humane society is to stuck up to put it to use

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: blood4blood]
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Yeah, that's sad they were such dicks to you. You should try to help an independent animal rescue organization, maybe one that does fostering instead of kenneling, they're usually run by a small group of awesome people. I got my puppy from a rescue and they were really great. I'm going to foster for them someday, as soon as I live in a bigger house.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: mayfly]
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volunteered at a zoo, then became a zookeeper, chill ass job years ago...the best way for volunteering is to look for Organic Farm work.


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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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I volunteered for awhile for this horesback lesson thing.

It was for disabled people, with autism, down syndrome, etc.  It was kind of like a therapy letting them ride on the back of a horse.  I'd help saddle up the horses, sometimes needing a special saddle and then walk them around the indoor stable.  It wasn't very hard and got some exercise.

But I was mainly doing it because I met a hot chick who did it.  So I volunteered for awhile with her :wink:

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
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i've been looking into doing some habitat for humanity recently. i want to wait until it gets a bit warmer though.

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Re: Volunteer work? [Re: blood4blood]
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blood4blood said:
we'ed take you in a heartbeat! we are the only county in a 7 county region that DOESNT youthinize pets. dont believe in it. so we get a massive influx of pets that need help from all those countys. it keeps us on our toes. we just got 11 puppies that somebody (asshole) left down by the river to basically die. i live in mn it gets fucing cold here.

meh, take your warmth in your heart somewhere else if the humane society is to stuck up to put it to use


Yeah, euthanasia just disgusts me! I only believe in putting animals down if it would be less painful for them in the long run. For example , I decided to put down my first kitty because she had a hereditary heart problem that would have made her go into cardiac arrest if she had been allowed to live her last weekend on heavy meds.

But man, I can't believe someone would do that to those puppies! I mean, at least try to SELL them and be a greedy bastard instead of just abandoning them like that! What breed(s) were they?


mayfly said:
Yeah, that's sad they were such dicks to you. You should try to help an independent animal rescue organization, maybe one that does fostering instead of kenneling, they're usually run by a small group of awesome people. I got my puppy from a rescue and they were really great. I'm going to foster for them someday, as soon as I live in a bigger house.


Yeah I've thought of that so much. The only problem is I live in a small house with a cat whom I don't know whether or not can tolerate other animals. But once I'm out of here and find out whether my kitty's cool with it or not, I want to foster as many animals as my new place can hold! 8)

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