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**POLL** Do you volunteer on a regular basis?

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NoReMoRsE

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Just wanted to get a feel of how much people on this forum like to volunteer.

Please answer the poll questions of:
1. Do you volunteer on a regular basis?
2. How often do you volunteer?

And in this thread, you can post your reasons for volunteering and the types of volunteer activities that you do.

For me, I volunteer a few days a week in the summer and once a week during the school year. I mainly volunteer at hospitals and long-term care centres because it's an enjoyable and rewarding experience and I also want to apply to medical school, so the experience helps.
 
Originally posted by: dnetmhz
I had to do forced volunteer work (literally) way back in high school. Does that count?
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They've introduced that in Ontario high schools too. People have to get 40 hours of community service in order to graduate.

It's up to you whether it truly counts as "voluntary" work, since the kids are basically being forced to do this involuntarily. Personally, I feel that we should educate kids on what it means to volunteer, and allow each person to decide for him/herself whether he/she wants to volunteer. It's not fair to "force" people to volunteer. It's more like forced labour.

As an aside, if the Ontario government's plan was to encourage kids to continue volunteering, they've failed. At one of my hospitals, the kids did precisely their 40 hours of service and then left.
 
1. Yes, at a local hospital in the emergency department, and I'm a member of the Jaycees. I also help a bit at church.
2. The hospital is Sunday afternoons, the Jaycees more than that, and the chuch is once a month in the children's minstry.
I like helping people and I like doing positive things with my time.
 
I volunteered for 10 years of service in the Nat'l Guard here in Arkansas... nowadays I am busy collecting personal items for the troops in the 39th Brigade (the guard unit I was a part of) and shipping them over to Iraq where the 39th is currently serving.

We just got our webpage up and running a few days ago... check it out here.

Word.
 
In HS I had to do 75 hours. Most people didn't do it, but still got to graduate.
 
I volunteered at my public library until I went to visit a friend in Dallas. Now I am home again, but haven't resumed. The reason: they don't need me.
 
In college I volunteered in a local ER. It's not often that you get to hang around an ER so I took the opportunity. Plus, I don't think many hospitals allow volunteers in that area.
 
I'm a Reserve Police Officer, which is a volunteer position. I'm in training right now, which takes up anywhere from 1-4 night a week. Once I'm sworn in I'm required to work 10 hours a month, but I'll work much more than that.

I'm doing this so that I can get my career started while I'm still in college (2 years left), and hopefully it'll turn into a full-time position when I graduate.
 
i'd like to see how many people volunteer who don't have to and don't gain anything from it (meaning people doing it for resumes or applications don't count)

it'd also be interesting if those who do it for med school or whatever continue to do so once they've become doctors...
 
Me & some other people perform at hospitals, veterans homes, and so on in the area. Can't say that I don't get anything out of it, though - we meet great people and have a good time. Hopefully they enjoy it too.
 
I plan on doing some work for the red cross in the next few months, not much to volunteer for where I live.
 
I pay Social Security taxes. IMO, that's both volunteer work and charitable donations.

I did real volunteer work all the time in high school (worked a few hours at a soup kitchen after school a few days a week), and almost every weekend at a food bank, helping to sort donations.

edit: I did volunteer in college too... one day a month reading to kids at a local library, and one shift a week at a battered woman's shelter.

since I entered the real world, though, I really haven't found the time to do volunteer work. I'm usually so dead by the time i get out of work that all I want to do is play video games, masturbate, and go to bed. In college and high school, I'd have done anything to distract me from homework 😛 Plus, doing volunteer work put me in a good position to look down on others and make them feel guilty 😉 jk
 
Once a week, Friday nights. I make sandwiches with other people and go downtown Toronto to hand them out to the homeless (we actually walk along Yonge Street and pass them out).
 
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