-=> 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

... Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!

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