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Here on the OT board, we tend to have alot to say about how things should be done. But do any of us actually do anything (other than vote and stuff) to shape the world we live in.

I for one used to work for Home Depot, and volunteered to build a park for kids. Took a weekend, but it felt good afterwards.

I also used to feed the kitties and man the stations at an animal adoption unit (for cats).


How about you guys?

Helped build a Playground for a brand new kindergarden up in Iceland.

So...much...wood glue. Or whatever it's called, the stuff you slather on top of Wood after it's been placed to protect it.

They just called it Woodglue (In Icelandic, of course.) but I'm pretty sure that's not the word.

I do tons of volunteer work (kind of comes with the proffession)...

Imunization clinics, Camps for kids and what not.

Umm... not so much in the way of charity.

I have been actively involved volunteering in music festivals and medieval reenactment events, and I've just started doing 'volunteer' work for Jim Beam's music promotions in Australia... they pay in booze.

Unfortunately I don't drink bourbon or coke.

I volunteer at a food pantry every wendnesday in the summer, I used to do Relay for Life, and I occasionally work for a group called
Joey's Eagles that raises money for cancer research and childrens hospitals.

I also plan on doing at least one project for Habitat for Humanity, as one of my old teachers church goes on trips in the summer to participate in them.

I do a lot of voluntary hours at school helping students with their work, though I do sort of see that as an extension of my job. I think I will join the Samaritans when I go over to the UK, I do think volunteering is a really good thing to do. From my experience, it's a lot more common in the US than it is here in Dublin. (Or maybe the people from the US that go travelling are more likely to be volunteer types)

Did about seven years driving a minibus for the disabled and elderly. not so much now

Not a blessed thing... I'm rather lazy. My form of support comes in donations. I should probably change that... then maybe I wouldn't feel like so much of a tool or something. I'm hoping a career change might help things.

I did lots of Volunteer work in the Boy Scouts. I genuinely enjoyed those experiences.

I volunteered for rec league soccer referee.

I also volunteered at my local YMCA for youth nights and feeding the poor. I also did food pantry for my church.

I tried 12 hours of volunteer work in an emergency room, but stopped that due to school.

I used to do a fair bit of campaigning for Amnesty International. I don't do as much these days, as it stopped being as effective. It's a little hard to tell a government they won't be accepted into the international community if they torture people when, well, all that stuff was going on.

I do Men of Trees stuff, planting new trees to stop salination.

I used to give blood to the red cross, but I'm not allowed to do that anymore.

Yeah, needles are about the only real fear I have. I don't donate blood because of that

I work in environmental regulation, but I'm getting paid for that, so I suppose it doesn't count.

I've done some litter picking and general cleaning up kind of things.

I've also given money to certain political organizations, at least, up until they got involved with other political positions I don't necessarily agree with, but that probably isn't what is considered "volunteering".

Vene wrote:I used to give blood to the red cross, but I'm not allowed to do that anymore.

They found the bodies?

Not much free time to volunteer so I let my checkbook do the volunteering for me.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

Vene wrote:I used to give blood to the red cross, but I'm not allowed to do that anymore.

They found the bodies?

Male on male sex.

I used to volunteer at school. That was a long time ago.

My company has a volunteering scheme but I haven't been on it yet.

My high school made volunteer work a requirement for graduation. Being lazy, I found what took the less time and effort to achieve that end.

I went to the library every morning, got the flag, and put her on the flag pole 80 hours over 4 years. Graduation requirement met

Never gave to charity. I've only worked minimum wage jobs and I never have much left over when I'm done with it. Maybe later down the road when income is more stable and my time with summer jobs has come to an end.

I used to volunteer for the National Park Service @ Antietam and Harper's Ferry. Gettysburg too on occasion.

Not much lately.

I did a lot of extra work for the NGOs that I worked for in college. They retained me as a regular employee, but on average I worked about 10 hours a week without pay.

I don't donate to charity, but that's because I need to save as much money as possible in case I don't find a job in graduate school.

Vene wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

Vene wrote:I used to give blood to the red cross, but I'm not allowed to do that anymore.

They found the bodies?

Male on male sex.

I'm just going to put it out there that I would need more information to perfectly understand what you're saying there. I don't necessarily want it.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

Vene wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

Vene wrote:I used to give blood to the red cross, but I'm not allowed to do that anymore.

They found the bodies?

Male on male sex.

I'm just going to put it out there that I would need more information to perfectly understand what you're saying there. I don't necessarily want it.

You are at high risk for HIV/AIDS and must not donate blood if you have any of the following risk factors:

You are a male who has had sex with another male since 1977.
You have ever used illegal or non-prescription drugs by needle.
You have been the sex partner of a male or female prostitute within the last 12 months.
You have AIDS or one of its symptoms.
You are a person who has been given money or drugs for sex in the past 12 months.
You have ever had a positive test for the HIV antibody, indicating past exposure to the AIDS virus.
You have taken clotting factor concentrates for bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia.
You are/or have been the sex partner of any persons described above in the past 12 months.

In Australia, we also don't like British blood.
Dirty, dirty!

Those pesky prions are impossible to test for, unfortunately.

I helped an old man who owns a comic/retro games/LP's store clear out his excess stalk and repackaged and priced any useful items, any garbage items were thrown out.

'Helped,' eh?

"No one will want to buy these first-edition Stan Lee signed Spiderman comics, old man. Chuck 'em in my truck with those old... Citadel models or whatever they are and I'll take the whole lot to the dump."

Arctik_Firangi wrote:'Helped,' eh?

"No one will want to buy these first-edition Stan Lee signed Spiderman comics, old man. Chuck 'em in my truck with those old... Citadel models or whatever they are and I'll take the whole lot to the dump."

Well he trusts me.

(BTW you made me lol)