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

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

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

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

 DAG>> has health problems, why not just do the whole face of the block?
 NB> That's more the sort of volunteer work I end up doing...  :)  Or the
 NB> 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.

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

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

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