What do you volunteer to do for nothing but pleasure and to help others?

Question

Just curious......I never was one to leave the house and volunteer but I find when you really love something you want to give away your knowledge to others. What is your passion?

1. I do genealogy lookups for people.

2. I make corrections to records on Ancestry.com if I see an error or I know a person's alternate/maiden name or information about them.

3. I am also on the CCC Volunteer list at Ancestry.com. We evaluate corrections submitted by others that have been challenged to determine errors.

4. I transcribe census records and births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and news articles for St. Lawrence Co., NY.

5. I help random people in the library who are new to research and seem lost or don't know how to use the machines.

Also, I would like to know if your family respects this as work? My family respects it as work and calls on me for help, but my husband thinks that since I enjoy it so much, it is not work. My sister says "Anything you would have to pay someone to do is work."

Mongol - I am jealous!!! What you do sounds like something my daughter would love.

You all have great answers...I'm giving you all a thumbs up!

Answer 1

I volunteer at my kids' schools. It can be something as small as making copies, or cutting out shapes, but it takes some of the workload off of the teacher. I'd rather have them focusing on lesson plans and working with the kids than how they're going to get copies made during their busy day.

Answer 2

To me, doing work that you have a passion for, or enjoying your work, is something worth striving for. Lack of enjoyment doesn't make a job more worthy, in my opinion. I have done some of the same things as a paid job and as volunteer work; and both have great value to me, and to my community.

I've volunteered in clinics and have been doing medical casework (as a volunteer) for several years now.

I've done everything from caring for an ill neighbor to serving on an advisory council to our Health Department on school health programs.

I've planted trees at a local park, helped build a playground at a local school, mentored a teenage girl for a year, spent weeks doing disaster relief, worked at fundraising events for my local library, served meals at a local 'soup kitchen', taught classes, and many other jobs.

I've been doing some sort of volunteer work since I was in my late teens; even when I worked at a full time paying job. I've been volunteering in some way for at least 35 years.

I think all of the the work you have listed is valuable. So...thanks for sharing your skills and knowledge!

Answer 3

U.S Coast Guard (Aux.), I have a boat, I know how dangerous the water can be, some people don't know this, it's a very populated area that I live in, and we're surrounded by water, it can get very busy here in the summer for the USCG, the (Aux.) backs them up on patrols, so that they can do more important things like "Rescues", sometimes we do the rescue if they are overwhelmed with calls on the weekends, it's very rewarding feeling to see the look of relief on someone's face as you pull them out of the water.

Answer 4

I love your what you are doing, it shows a compassion for others, I volunteer at a local hospital once a week and I have been to the gulf coast twice this year, check out rebuildlakeshore.com, New Orleans is still a mess to, it makes you sick just to go there, people all along the gulf coast still need our prayers and support. Fema is useless and now all those fema trailors have to be destroyed because of some fungis growing in them, its terrible, please remember them in your prayers.

Answer 5

my voluntary works includes ( i know u will be jealous)...
- travelling in 4wheed drives into the heartland of borneo amongst the camouflage of trees , chirping birds, monkeys, the odd rhino to help build bridges, repair roads and help the longhouse folks in repairs, roofing etc.... (now did i wake u guys up heheheheh)
- travelled to tsunami hit sumatra and get some job done with the other relief teams all over the world...
- help plant trees,
-releasing turtles from their sanctuary (of course you can take a dip too its hot all year round )
- do cleanup of picnic sites in the jungles (more offroading... mud, sweat, and more cackles from the orangutans hehehe)
ok ok u guys can come and join us here... just bring t shirts and shorts and ur water bottle...
life is just precious, beautiful and giving without asking in return is heaven...
pass me the smoked fish and some watermelons pls... tq

Answer 6

I am heavily involved with The Pencil Project

www.thepencilproject.com