What are some volunteering ideas?

[Schrodinger]

I've been a volunteer at a hospital for a while now (just short of two years) and I've grown quite bored with it.

I get yelled at constantly by fatass b!tchy nurses. Many nurses are nice (hell my mother is an RN), but the majority I've had to deal with were just negative people and had poor outlooks on their job, the people they cared for and those they had to interact with (I was treated like crap).

I'm trying to find something more street-oriented. Not out to save the world, but just want to see the results more and feel like I'm contributing.

Shelters are an obvious one, but I'm trying to figure out other options... ideas?

 

[amol]

Retirement home?

 

[Kipper]

Local school

 

[tec699]

big brother.

 

[Schrodinger]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Local school

What sort of stuff would you do there? I've never heard of volunteers at schools...

 

[Albis]

library seems like a nice and relaxed place to volunteer

 

[StageLeft]

A lot of nurses do suck and are sh*ty.

What I did for a while was duct taped a nail to the end of a broom stick and I went around a park with a bag and cleaned up litter. We had to do volunteer work at school (those c***s need to learn the definition of VOLUNTEER and realize mandatory is not part of it, but anyway) so that was what a friend and I did. Sure beat working with people in some shelter.

 

[computeerrgghh]

EMS/ First Aid Squad

 

[Schrodinger]

Originally posted by: computeerrgghh
EMS/ First Aid Squad

more info?

Is that like volunteer firefighter, but EMS services instead? Can't say I've ever heard about that.

I thought about becoming a volunteer firefighter but I'm without an automobile so that complicates things significantly

As would meals on wheels...etc etc etc

 

[pray4mojo]

Try local events. Tomorrow I will be waking up at 5AM to volunteer at a Nike Run/Walk in LA.

 

[computeerrgghh]

Eh volunteer firefighter requires a lot more training. Your first aid squad is usually the people who respond to a 911 call if someone is sick/injured. So townships just have paid professionals do the work. Others, like mine, have professionals in the day and volunteers at night from 7pm-7am and on weekends. You need to know first aid and CPR to be a general member(grunt-like really). You can get EMT training after a while to be the person who actually interacts with the patient/checks vital signs/decides what to do.
edit: your gonna have to check if your town has a volunteer squads, YMMV
edit 2: you have to be over 16. When your 18, you can learn to use jaws of life

 

[gooseman]

American Red Cross

 

[Keyvan]

in my town, I've been interested in volunteering at the Distress Centre (in Ottawa, funded by the united way).
it's basically a place where people can call in and talk when they are in, well, distress. i just think it'd be a challenging thing to do, because you know that you can't really help the people, but you still have to try your best to make them feel better about life.
the way I see it is that although it's literally impossible for myself to save the world, I'm still making (or making a viable effort) to make a slight difference for the better in a few other peoples' lives...


oh, and it could make for a very good reference for later on!


Skoorb: we have that here too, and I did way more than the required 40, but the keyword is that they require community service from you, not volunteering. So you are not "volunteering", you are completing a required "community service". (well that's how it's worded for us anyway...)

 

[DainBramaged]

Come to my house and work.

 

[Yossarian]

I always thought it would be cool to record books for the blind. I'm way too selfish to actually do it though.