Ever do volunteer work?

I'll be working a soup kitchen for half the day on Thursday, my first time doing so. I do quite a bit of volunteer work at the local schools (covering their IT needs and some extracurricular HTML/JScript classes) but this will be the first time I've done anything outside of that.

Just wondering if any of you volunteer on a regular basis or during the holidays? Anyone ever worked a soup kitchen before? How is it?

I volunteered at a womens shelter last year for a few months michael_1234576

What does that involve doing? Like cooking and stuff or just being someone to talk to? Sorry, don't know much about that.

[QUOTE="michael_1234576"]I volunteered at a womens shelter last year for a few months br0kenrabbit

What does that involve doing? Like cooking and stuff or just being someone to talk to? Sorry, don't know much about that.

Yeah some voluntary work in a shelter in December (although I only stand in the soup kitchen.

Likely the oddest emotionallt kind of "job" ive had. Despite being there for a few years now, I stil lfeel horrible by the looks of how many people come in for such a service, and how many are too poorly dressed in the cold. And yet it feels really nice when they smile, and talk to you.

I do suspect that these kinds of jobs are the most common that will pop up in this thread. That and giving away clothes.

Nope

Public library (legit reasons) and making gift baskets for pregnant mothers at a hospital (to impress a girl).

Would really like to volunteer, but in here its mostly affiliated with factions and politics.GazaAli

Where do you live?

Hands-on kind of work? Nope, not anymore. Now I just stay in the background providing financial support for others to do it.

I'll be working a soup kitchen for half the day on Thursday, my first time doing so. I do quite a bit of volunteer work at the local schools (covering their IT needs and some extracurricular HTML/JScript classes) but this will be the first time I've done anything outside of that.

Just wondering if any of you volunteer on a regular basis or during the holidays? Anyone ever worked a soup kitchen before? How is it?

br0kenrabbit

Not here in NY. But, at our other house in Tucson AZ, I spent quite a few weekends with a group picking up trash and debris along the highways.

I did a bit over the summer in a charity shop. Didn't have me feeling fulfilled :P

Yes.

Never worked at a soup kitchen (in fact come to think of it I've never even seen one in my area) but I've volunteered for stuff like trash pick up and taking care of abandoned animals. Ace6301

Prisoners do the trash pick-up around here to work off their community service while in detention.

Not sure where you are but usually if you're interested in helping out you can ask at a Salvation Army or Goodwill or a similar place and they'll point you in the right direction.

I'll be working a soup kitchen for half the day on Thursday, my first time doing so. I do quite a bit of volunteer work at the local schools (covering their IT needs and some extracurricular HTML/JScript classes) but this will be the first time I've done anything outside of that.

Just wondering if any of you volunteer on a regular basis or during the holidays? Anyone ever worked a soup kitchen before? How is it?

br0kenrabbit

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

I'll be working a soup kitchen for half the day on Thursday, my first time doing so. I do quite a bit of volunteer work at the local schools (covering their IT needs and some extracurricular HTML/JScript classes) but this will be the first time I've done anything outside of that.

Just wondering if any of you volunteer on a regular basis or during the holidays? Anyone ever worked a soup kitchen before? How is it?

bnarmz

From the sounds of things I'm going to be over the stove. I wouldn't mind being on the counter for a bit just for the world experience, as you say, however.

I've learned more from people down-and-out in my life than I ever have from anyone floating at the top.

Not enough time in the day.

I've been doing voluntry work for the last 3 years at Oxfam, I volunteer at the Finance office. All the Oxfam shops in the UK send in their donations up to the North East and check if they are claimable or not and where does the donation go to

I'm a volunteer EMT.

Yep. It's required to graduate.

No.....But I do want to do it though..

No, I need to work on that for grad school though.

yeah. i've done volunteer work at women's shelters, and 'soup kitchens' feeding the poor when i was in Houston.

part of my time this summer was spent volunteering time on voting no against banning gay marriage in the state of Minnesota.

but i don't do a whole lot of volunteer wor, but i have done it before.

Yes at least twice a year.

I volunteered to work on black friday after they offered double time and 2 vacation days as compensation.

That count?

I volunteered to work on black friday after they offered double time and 2 vacation days as compensation.

That count?

Alter_Echo

I've done it a few times.

I volunteered to work on black friday after they offered double time and 2 vacation days as compensation.

That count?

Alter_Echo

ITT: All theists do volunteer work. Take that, atheists!

I have worked at a handicraft workshop for children for 2 years, it was a lot of fun!

For a couple years I did volunteer work at the hospital. I would visit the elderly that could no longer care for themselves. I play games, watch movies or just talk to them. Its sad because they don't get a lot of visitors even family. :( I also helped at a couple fundraiers.

Well my high school required me to do a certain number of service hours though I guess I didn't really "volunteer" since I had to do those hours. In eight grade I volunteered to help out at a church festival, though I did so on the mistaken notion that I would get free food (fried dough, pasta, etc.) so I guess that doesn't count.

The only volunteer work I did that wasn't for credit (or what I thought was free food), was my senior year in high school. My mother took me, my sister, my sister's friend and my cousin to meet up with another cousin and that cousin's friend to join some thing organized by the police dept. where we go on buses and deliver gifts and sing Christmas Carols to poor people and other people who've had problems in our town (and nearby towns too if I remember correctly). The swim team from my high school was on the same bus I was, as well as two Mormons from Utah (who had helped wrap the gifts a few days before).