I have the best of intentions. I've had them for years now. I want to volunteer to do things like build houses for Habitat for Humanity. To be a Big Sister. To help clean up the community, plant gardens, help folks who can't get out and do their own yardwork. To donate my clothes to women who really need them, and not to someplace that will sell them.

Trouble is, I wind up never having the opportunity nor time nor know exactly how to get into these things.

There is an opportunity here at work to volunteer for something. Something they do every year. It's not really a charity event. It's a big annual thing and this place gets free publicity from being all over the news and such. It's more of a community event.

Personally, that's not my idea of charity. So I don't volunteer. Maybe that makes me "not a team player", but I don't care. I figure it's up to me how I spend my volunteer time (though some of this takes place during the work day) and this isn't my idea of how I want to represent myself.

What irks me is sometimes they get "high pressure" about it, offering prizes to the area that has the most volunteers. gah

it's like bribery. But they call it volunteering.