Volunteer

[VirusType2]

I want to do volunteer work that has an income. Anyone ever been a paid volunteer?

I want to help people, but I don't have time for that and a regular job

 

[AtomicSpark]

Paid volunteer is an oxymoron.

 

[jet_porkins]

The army.

 

[Jintor]

Generally what happens is that volunteers become employees of the charitable foundation.

 

[Qonfused]

I want to do volunteer work that has an income.

volunteer work

income

 

[Raziaar]

What the **** is that? Where's the sloth Qonfused!?

 

[Qonfused]

The sloth doesn't really showcase what I wanted to portray.

 

[MJ12]

My friend gets paid 8.25 an hour to make sure old people don't escape.

 

[kineaesth]

I get paid free stuff to do nothing at a radio station.

Love that shit.

 

[Unfocused]

Be a paramedic/firefighter/cop (a good one, not the kind Stern likes to post about).

 

[nofreeman]

Be a Bounty Hunter

 

[VirusType2]

Yeah, I don't mind helping old people. Well, it seems like it would be ... ok/helpful.

I've looked into becoming a bounty hunter, but there are all kinds of requirements that I'm not really willing to fulfill. An old friend of mine did that, though I never asked him about it much.

 

[15357]

You've got the best location in the world to be a bounty hunter. Over here, criminals are caught in like 3 days and there aren't too many bounties. Besides, no guns.


You could go night shift as a hitman working for the mafia, and your day shift as a bounty hunter. It should pay off.

 

[Shakermaker]

You have a weird concept of volunteer work.

 

[VirusType2]

Staff Volunteer - in charge of other volunteers, things like that. Behind most every volunteer organization is people who run it, and they get paid.

I want to help the mentally or physically handicapped, or work for the environment or something. But I haven't found any opportunities.

 

[Solaris]

You have a weird concept of volunteer work.

So do you if you think it entails and income

 

[Diesel_Power]

You guys can't be serious. PAID volunteer work!?

WOW! Aren't you so caring. People donating money to a charity and a certain percent of the donations go to you?

 

[VirusType2]

Just become homeless and spend 40 hours a week helping strangers until I starve to death a week later since I can't afford to feed myself.

I'm looking for a job. A job where I do something that makes a difference. A difference that means the world for challenged people. People that the wealthy rarely even give their spare change to, yet I'm a piece of shit because I would spend my life - the only one I've got - to help them any way I can, in exchange for sustenance.

It doesn't seem to be any one here who is a volunteer of _any kind_

So I can't see any of you spending 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for decades on end, helping strangers for nothing.

Just shut up Sissy_Power.

 

[repiV]

There's lots of stuff you can do overseas in developing countries if you're that serious about it. I believe it's the Peace Corps you have over there, you could look into that. There's also the military, or emergency services work.

You could also teach English as a foreign language abroad, it's a great option for seeing the world and it's useful too as being fluent in English is such a benefit to people economically. I did the course and everything and I was going to go to Shanghai, but then I went with something else that came up instead and it just never happened. It's certainly one of my regrets.

 

[VirusType2]

Peace Corps. Thanks. I didn't even think of that. A friend of mine was doing that when we were teenagers.

I really don't want to relocate ... well I'd relocate, but I want my own place.


Don't you need to know Chinese to teach the Chinese? Eh, I guess it would be like one of those classes where you only speak English in my Class. Maybe an advanced class.

 

[repiV]

Peace Corps. Thanks. I didn't even think of that. A friend of mine was doing that when we were teenagers.

I really don't want to relocate ... well I'd relocate, but I want my own place.

I see. You could be a carer but that's a bit mucky.

You any idea what sort of thing you want to be doing in particular?

Don't you need to know Chinese to teach the Chinese? Eh, I guess it would be like one of those classes where you only speak English in my Class. Maybe an advanced class.

No, English as a foreign language is taught entirely in English, even for absolute beginners who don't speak a word, and even if the teacher speaks the student's language. It's nothing like they teach foreign languages in our woeful language classes at school, it's very much focused on interactivity and speaking and listening. The teacher is more of an orchestrator than anything else, there's no sort of lecturing involved at all.

If we were taught French that way, I might actually be able to speak it. :|

 

[VirusType2]

Environmental would be favorable. But I can't think of any jobs that I could do. I wouldn't care if it's picking up trash by the roadside, but the gov't appoints prisoners and probationers that job.

Working with the mentally handicapped would be great.
- actually I kind of was working as a paid volunteer for them at one time. I was sent by my staffing group as a temporary job when I injured my shoulder.

I applied for a permanent job working there. They didn't hire me, but they were really tight knit community. All women staff. Mainly there was a problem of a girl there that would talk to me during breaks, and she ended up going a a bit psycho wanting to hook up, which was really unfortunate, and it ruined my ability to be able to work there.

Not my favorite choice, but I would assist the elderly. I'm kind of a fast paced person though, and I'd have to work on my patience.

I can't really think of any other volunteer jobs.

 

[repiV]

Environmental would be favorable. But I can't think of any jobs that I could do. I wouldn't care if it's picking up trash by the roadside, but the gov't appoints prisoners and probationers that job.

You could be a lumberjack. :E

Not really my area I'm afraid, couldn't advise you there.

Working with the mentally handicapped would be great.
- actually I kind of was working as a paid volunteer for them at one time. I was sent by my staffing group as a temporary job when I injured my shoulder.

I applied for a permanent job working there. They didn't hire me, but they were really tight knit community. All women staff. Mainly there was a problem of a girl there that would talk to me during breaks, and she ended up going a a bit psycho wanting to hook up, which was really unfortunate, and it ruined my ability to be able to work there.

That's a shame. My brother is autistic amongst other things (they don't really know WHAT he has, to be honest, so they just call it "developmental delay"), the teachers who work with the kids at the special schools are just amazing and personally I think that would be a very worthwhile line of work.

They're generally really nice kids too, so friendly and affectionate and lovely. Hard work though! It boils my piss how ignorant people in general are about people with learning disabilities.

I don't know what it's like in the US, but the system really fails here when they hit adulthood. They get so much support through school and college and then they're just left to their own devices.

My last choice would be to work with the elderly. I'm kind of a fast paced person though, and I'd have to work on my patience.

I'm sure there's plenty of opportunities for that. My dad's in a respite home at the moment because he's not currently capable of living at home safely (should be a temporary thing), it's mostly populated by elderly people. Looks like a pretty thankless job, half of them are nuts and dementia is not a pretty thing. It's the going to the toilet aspect you wouldn't find me dealing with though.

Last time I was there I ran into this otherwise sprightly old guy in the corridor and he asked me if there was something wrong with the gas pipelines, and he thinks someone is trying to poison them. :|

 

[Maturin]

My friend rides in the back of the ambulance and takes emergency calls anytime- paid per call volunteer.

 

[dfc05]

I used to pick up trash on the roadsides, but I never got paid for it .

You can look for nonprofits to work for. Maybe if you're good with animals, you can look at animal shelters (although I think they mostly take unpaid volunteers?). I hear AmeriCorps got a big stimulus check, but I don't know if they have paid positions or not. Teach for America pays, but you have to be a recent college graduate to do that.

I used to volunteer in gardening/trail work at a place that did paid internships, but I think those were just for college students in conservation or high school students with a low income background.

 

[VirusType2]

My friend rides in the back of the ambulance and takes emergency calls anytime- paid per call volunteer.

An EMT? That's a thought

I used to pick up trash on the roadsides, but I never got paid for it .

You can look for nonprofits to work for. Maybe if you're good with animals, you can look at animal shelters (although I think they mostly take unpaid volunteers?).

There is an animal shelter just down the road, I will definitely look into that. I always felt for those poor animals.

My younger sister was a vet for a while.

I hear AmeriCorps got a big stimulus check, but I don't know if they have paid positions or not. Teach for America pays, but you have to be a recent college graduate to do that.

I will try to get more information on these, thanks.


These are great ideas, thanks everyone.

I never would have thought of some of these, I should have asked sooner.

 

[Diesel_Power]

Just become homeless and spend 40 hours a week helping strangers until I starve to death a week later since I can't afford to feed myself.

I'm looking for a job. A job where I do something that makes a difference. A difference that means the world for challenged people. People that the wealthy rarely even give their spare change to, yet I'm a piece of shit because I would spend my life - the only one I've got - to help them any way I can, in exchange for sustenance.

It doesn't seem to be any one here who is a volunteer of _any kind_

So I can't see any of you spending 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for decades on end, helping strangers for nothing.

Just shut up Sissy_Power.

There is a difference between volunteer work and a job.

If you get paid to do something it's not volunteer work. Period! Because if you weren't getting paid to do it, YOU WOULDN'T DO IT!

Working and getting paid at an animal shelter is not volunteer work. It's being a vet, and if the vets weren't getting paid, they would say "**** it" and not do it anymore.

Volunteering at an animal shelter implies doing things to help them out without expecting pay. Ya'h know, some people just don't care about the money. They just want to make a difference.

Firefighters, doctors, paramedics are jobs, not volunteer work. Army is not volunteer work. They sucker you in and then make you sign a contract saying if you quit you go to jail and you can't leave until you've done a certain amount of years worth of work.

 

[VirusType2]

I guess this thread was troll bait bscly, but it wasn't intentional.

I'm not surprised at the reaction I got. It was supposed to invoke a reaction, otherwise I'd get one person commenting and it would drop down the list.

Lets face it, there is nothing more boring for discussion than 'I'm looking for a job helping the elderly'.

Now to respond to your comment:

I don't really care about money. I'm not just saying that. If you knew me you'd know. Sometimes I want stuff, but I have most of everything I could ever want. I'd be perfectly happy with the smallest house you've ever seen and my car that is paid for.

That doesn't change the fact that I need money to live, and instead of working for Wal-Mart or McDonald's, or whatever, people could be helping those that need help.

I'm not trying to dispute the definition of volunteer

almost 9,000,000 hits for paid+volunteer:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=paid...+Search&aq=f&oq=paid+volunteer&fp=aJ3luUAo2t0

It's basically that I'm searching for a job where I'm helping people.

Usually you don't get paid, but not everything in this world is non-profit. Profitable charities are still helping, you know? Usually, the profit is very meager. You can say, "well, why not just donate to the cause directly, and skip the middle man?" But will you? They are getting the message out, and spending their time and resources to do it.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Staff Volunteer - in charge of other volunteers, things like that. Behind most every volunteer organization is people who run it, and they get paid.

I think the word you're looking for is "supervisor."

 

[Solaris]

Don't use the word volunteer then. There's nothing wrong with wanting to help people. But if you want to help people only if you get paid for it, don't use the term volunteer. As far as I am concerned, volunteers are people who staff charity shops doing day shifts and receive nothing in return. To call the administrators for Oxfam who get £30,000+ a year is too insult those who do such things for free.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with working for a charity and receiving a salary. But to say that's 'volunteering' is insulting and arrogant.

 

[VirusType2]

Well, my last job title was 'volunteer', and I got paid, so I'm sorry for all the confusion.

I think I just got used to it, and forgot how ridiculous it sounds to everyone as it did to me at first.


I was just asking is there any way to get paid for doing something helpful, because I'd rather assist the disabled than work in a warehouse.


I've got some answers already, and thanks again.

 

[Kakashi]

So I can't see any of you spending 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for decades on end, helping strangers for nothing.

I volunteer at a local Volunteer Rescue Squad its one of the busiest in our county with over 13,000 calls a year. I ride in the back of the ambulance assisting, working 70 hours a month with absolutely no pay. Either way, I love it. Once I reach my EMT status, I plan on applying at my local ER to be a ER Technician (since EMT is the minimum to be come one). They get payed quite well too.

 

[jet_porkins]

Humane Society?

I volunteer at a local Volunteer Rescue Squad its one of the busiest in our county with over 13,000 calls a year. I ride in the back of the ambulance assisting, working 70 hours a month with absolutely no pay. Either way, I love it. Once I reach my EMT status, I plan on applying at my local ER to be a ER Technician (since EMT is the minimum to be come one). They get payed quite well too.

Right, but his point was full-time volunteer work "decades on end" for absolutely nothing in return. 70 hrs/month < 40 hrs/week

edit: also, that's pretty cool volunteer work. Keep it up.