-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 02-Aug-2015 08:48 <=-   
    DAG> Re: volunteering   was: misc and parents (etc   
      
    DAG>> It was 501(c)3 non-profit charity work.   
    NB>> Ah, that makes much better sense...  :)   
    DAG> Yeah the whole paid volunteer thing, while bringing back some   
    DAG> memories of that 'working' contradiction in the army, didn't make a   
    DAG> whole lot of sense really.  ;)   
      
   I suppose someone has to do it... And I'm sure that being underpaid does   
   make somewhat of a volunteer aspect to things...   
      
    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...   
    DAG> That's the best sort, IMO.  I mean going into different places that   
    DAG> need volunteers to be able to help people out is great, too, but   
    DAG> helping unexpectedly is a feeling that doesn't exactly match it, IMO.   
      
   You know that you've brought good into someone else's life that likely   
   wouldn't have happened otherwise...    
      
    NB>> That sort of work usually is way underpaid, since the agencies involved   
    NB>> don't have much to work with...   
    DAG> 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...  ;(   
    DAG> It certainly is telling about some different values in this society,   
    DAG> if nothing else.  Such a shame that we spend enough on war to feed and   
    DAG> house the entire planet.  We've got the wrong people in charge (or more   
    DAG> likely, too many beheaded chickens thinking that they're all in   
    DAG> charge).    
      
   Or at least, people that don't really think things through to see the   
   ironies and inconsistencies...  And inertia working against change...   
      
   ttyl       neb   
      
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