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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