Why I Recommend To Do Some Volunteer Work?

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Volunteer Work Is Part Of Me

I volunteered at my tennisclub PVC-tennis and by using Wwoofing and Workaway in Australia. Although the last two are paid with food and lodging. It is still volunteer work, because it is not like paid work and it's mostly work there are no paid workers for. But it's work that must be done to reach the goal of the organization, non-profit organizations mostly. With Workaway at the restaurant and cabin lodges on Kangaroo Island it was building up a ruined and abandoned place. I was in the third group working on it. All for the benefit of tourist sector of Kangaroo Island after another hurricane.

I Do Work I Usually Don’t Do

The benefit of volunteering is that I do work I usually don’t do in my normal paid job. Also I get to interact with strangers and have to collaborate with them to get the work done. If I like them or not, but the respect for each other and the work done by everyone is what I take with me for life! The respect for life!

Volunteering In My Work Field

Another type of volunteering is volunteering at my old tennis club. This is volunteering in my field of work. There is not enough money to pay people for it, but it gets done! It’s something I do and then after a while think what am I doing, I have taken up 6 tasks instead of the 2 I meant to do. And the funny thing is sometimes I fight with my other club members for that one odd extra volunteer task. All gets done, the club still exist. Although it is tiring sometimes, I would still do volunteer work on travels, at my tennis club or at an NGO I like.