Community Involvement

[MrFun]

Once I reach a point where I have all of my other responsibilities under control, I would like to try to make time to become involve in a local AIDS hospice as a volunteer.




What do you do in your local community? Or, what are you planning to do in the near future? And I'm not just talking about sitting on your ass, mailing a small contribution to your local firehouse on a regular basis -- I'm talking about getting out of your house, and doing actual volunteer work.

[Winston]

Volunteer work is a broad term. I'm active in my local party branch (Liberals), helping to plan and arrange activities and write a little here and there. That's voluntary.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Work my ass off and make money.

[Japher]

Work my ass off and make money.

and I try not to run over any old people

[Ecthy]

Yeah, I turn the volume of my hifi down by 2% once in 3 weeks so old grannies can sleep better...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Work my ass off and make money.

Volunteer work does NOT entail earning money.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Community Involvement

Originally posted by MrFun
What do you do in your local community?

I work to overthrow the government and establish a global communist economy and democracy.

[Last Conformist]

I kill little kids when they get uppity.

[Japher]

Volunteer work does NOT entail earning money

I volunteer not to be a worthless sack of sheit.. most of the time.

[Verres]

I sit at the end of a phoneline a couple of nights a week so fellow students can phone, tell me they're going to kill themselves or something, and be talked through a list of reasons why they shouldn't.

It's utter crap of course, if I rang that number and got an idiot like me telling them to take a warm bath/go for a walk/punch a pillow I think it would make me more likely to do the deed.

Having thought about it, reducing student suicides may actually be doing more harm to the local community than good

[Japher]

Death is the only adventure...

[Snotty]

I work for the biggest charity in the Uk, the NHS

[Verres]

Originally posted by Japher
Death is the only adventure...

True, which is why we should take at least 70 years to prepare for it

[Gibsie]

I'm one of the rare law-abiding citizens of the community, that's my contribution. (Well, apart from the odd drug, but if you don't get caught, it doesn't count)

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Verres
It's utter crap of course, if I rang that number and got an idiot like me telling them to take a warm bath/go for a walk/punch a pillow I think it would make me more likely to do the deed.

I haven't had a warm bath in ages. I'm not feeling suicidal, but I do wonder if that might help with bad moods...