What you think of volunteering

[chric]

What you think of volunteering
Ok so I do a fair bit of volunteering gains for me that I get some training in line of work I want to do but lack of funds with most organisations means no money can be put in for certain types of training like chain saw strimmer etc.
Now where my doubts come in is councils are now sending me emails for volunteering picking litter up etc on council owned property trails woods etc.
Now I don't mind this but when your trying to get work in this line of work its like your doing your self out of a job and maybe someone who as a job out of a job.
Am just a bit funny about it now as no qualifactions are gained and tending to feel on the side of people are getting used and free labour.
And ive done plenty of council work volunteering on there ajoinging property with sustrans

[chric]

and some I do costs me a tenner to get there

[Wicky]

With beer & pop corn on expenses

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... meras.html

http://www.voluntaryworker.co.uk/frontl ... olice.html

Depends on what you want to do and put in and get out of it.

I'm on various cricket commitees for my club and that run the league and also a school governor - I'm not really out of pocket on any of them except for the time. Even before that when I was in school I was in the Royal Observer Corp (purely selfish as I had a nice bunker in the early 80s if things got hot!) All have been good for learning stuff, going on courses and networking. It's even how I got to designing websites as a result of first making my cricket club one, and it has just snowballed from there. Doesn't do any harm from CV point of view.

Though it can be used politically as when unemployed for a year I was sent on some community workforce scheme that involved woodland and path maintenance though thankfully the bosses sheltered me with a nice office job designing stuff over a very cold winter.

And another time I spent 6 months as a 'volunteer' in a work for benefits scheme as an archaelogical draughtsman - that was good fun with some weird & wacky folk. Got a credit in a publication :-)

[alanfjones1411]

Picking up litter can't be that difficult.I suppose you will pick it up as you go along.

[Seeker 77]

Were it not for my family I'd be volunteering to fight ISIS.....

[Saintsman27]

As the song goes " There's many a twerp signing on "
An old Army saying never volunteer for owt..

[Seeker 77]

As the song goes " There's many a twerp signing on "
An old Army saying never volunteer for owt..

Call me a twerp then, 16 years in and I've never heard that saying. Maybe things have moved on....!

[Mav617]

Were it not for my family I'd be volunteering to fight ISIS.....

+1, medieval fookers.

[bigtwinthing]

i volunteered to go to Africa in 1977, never again after that with loonies killing each other and us not allowed to shoot back, i haven't offered since.