Whenever it’s one time or regularly.
Also, if you do, how did you start?
Yeah lots, with the local food bank or the universalist Unitarian church, I’m an atheist but UU churches are about service not dogma I’ve heard the word “god” maybe 3 times this year and I go every week and volunteer regularly, it’s been great to join an organization that’s already set up to help build community that doesn’t care what you believe in.
My anxiety and avoidant personality disorder keep me from having to urge to volunteer.
People make me tired.
I used to volunteer at libraries to teach elderly people digital literacy, how to use phones and computers to complete tasks they need etc and grow comfortable with their devices.
Unfortunately I couldn’t continue due to instability taking over my life. I’d like to do it again someday but I’m currently in too much need.
FOSS and blood.
I do. Counting ballets. They needed ppl so i signed up
I started volunteering with my local Weed Warriors group. We tackle invasive vines and bushes that kill native trees and block out the understory for native plants. It’s really satisfying when you liberate a tree or rip out an invasive bush. I like the exercise and social connection too. Search to see if your community has a weed warrior group or other conservation group that does field work. They can have a training/certification program. Some improve hiking trails too.
I write wikipedia pages, do OpenStreetMap editing and occasionally I go leafleting for my political party of choice
Not really. I have always felt inches away from being a charity case and we have done a rediculous level of personal austerity. My father in law even said we were to cautious but our lives have proved again and again that is not so. I mean I have in the past but most of what I do is opportunity driven. I used to have a do I could walk off leash so I would carry a poop grabber and bucket and I would pick up other garbage along the way. My neighbors and I grab each others mail. Put carts away that are carelessly left in the grocery lot. It blows my mind sometimes now only the littel things people don’t do but the little bad things they do and both would not inconvenience them much at all. Someone who goes and serves food in a soup kitchen every week but won’t use their turn signal is like. what. I sorta get annoyed with charity. Like it should not be necessary. We should be collecting taxes and employing people and fixing most things on a societal level. So like I want to live in a progressive social democracy where the average person is low enough stress that they treat themselves and their fellow citizens and environment with respect and will take some marginal effort to fix things spur of the moment that crop up.
Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world, people are often hypocrites, or try to offset the bad things they do with some surface level good, or just don’t care. But even then, I feel like anything that makes it just a little less cruel is a good thing, so thank you for doing what you can.
oh yeah. im sorry if I sounded like I was crapping on volunteering. As I said I have done some and I realize there is niche things that I don’t expect society to cover. Like I volunteered for many bike related things. Stuff like soup kitches and nature cleanups its like. You know we should collect taxes and these should be paid jobs. Like how is it ok this is necessary like that.
Yes. Local churches run driver services for people. I just just drive them around once in a while.
yes, i have volunteered regularly my entire adult life.
frankly i cut way back the past couple of years because people are such miserable psychos to be around and it was making me miserable. I focus more now on doing volunteer work that doesn’t involve people. it is a lot better.
i notice years ago volunteering was more about volunteering… now a lot of people think they should be ‘rewarded’ for their volunteer efforts. like with money. it’s fucked up and why i cut way back. it’s fucking weird people around ‘volunteers’ who are whining they they should get paid to do this.
