You're probably gonna do a bunch of stuff that's pretty menial and boring, but it's a really awesome application/resume booster if you stick with it and make some connections so don't give up.

Sitting in a nursing home listening to old people tell you about their grandchildren can get pretty awful after a while, and planting trees and picking up trash is shitty from the start.

In college it was fairly normal to try to "clean up" the river, so a large number of hipsters and various other college types would descend on our local waterways, in my case, after a few beers, and try to clean all the plastics and bits out while getting absolutely filthy, and also not being able to drink the water for fear of being poisoned. However, if we ever found a 2 liter bottle with the cap on, you had to stop and get the DNR officer, because it could have been used for making meth amphetamine, and they didn't want anybody exploding themselves.

Well your description of your group is too ambiguous to really tell you what to expect for yourself.

What I can tell you is that you'll see a lot of idiots join these groups just to be able to put on their resume, and actually end up standing around doing nothing all day. Try not to get swept in by them but try not to resent them either, since they're probably only there because of undesired social pressure. (None of this is relevant if you're not a student)

If you're interacting with random citizens, as opposed to people actually relevant to your line of work, you'll meet a lot of assholes. Try to be polite, but if they're being especially belligerent do your best to dump them on someone else. Especially those aforementioned idiots.

I guess what I'm trying to say is people are dicks, and you're doing a good thing.

I'm not 100% certain what I'm doing quite yet besides a couple jobs, which is dress up as Curious George for our local public reading program and something called "packaging college prep kits"

Find habitat for humanity. Usually you get free food and get to build stuff. I enjoyed my time with them.

That's a good idea.

I volunteered at a day camp for some hours. It was alright, I didn't know it for a month but I was the only one working there who wasn't getting paid. Apparently some kid liked me and told his mom, and they asked me to baby-sit for 15$ an hour. So that was nice.

dont expect 2 get paid

Every winter I Volunteer to help out at the local youth wrestling program where I live.

Listening to old people isn't bad. Try to gain something from their experiences, and try to appreciate how much the world has changed since they were young. It's enlightening, exhilarating, and can genuinely be uplifting if you allow. Just remember, if all goes well, you'll be in their position before too long...

Volunteering for these types of things should be for yourself as much as your resume. It's a type of life experience that you'll likely never get anywhere else. Put your heart into it and you'll get as much out of it as you want. The decorated resume is just icing on the cake.

Last time I volunteered locally they sent me to Kensington (a bad part of philly) to clean up the streets. 3 people from my group got stuck by needles poking out of the trash bags, and I almost got mugged. It really put me off volunteering.

Just lie on your resume like everyone else.

Or don't be a self-serving dick and don't lie about community service. Your choice.

Never lie on your resume. Some companies don't care, but there are those that do (my friend applied for Warner Bros. who literally checked on every point on her resume) and if you get caught lying your life will be fucked for a good amount of time thereafter.

I was in NHS and key club for a year, and the people there got like 2 hours worth of volunteering work for something that was like 30minutes. I ended up doing volunteer work separately at my local library and at a retirement home.

I had to listen to some sad sad stuff man. It was really pathetic what some of their kids did. I also learned a lot of life lessons. Good exp though.

'volunteering'

dingo pls

old people are interesting as fuck

it's like listening to an audio book from an author who really loves their story and its nice how much they put into it

take pills first though

I donated to tipofthehats once...

I volunteered at an animal shelter and basically just played with cats for 4 hours a day.

I also volunteered as an ESL tutor and worked primarily with adult immigrants, which was a more rewarding experience. Not only was I able to help them learn basic English grammar and words, I got to hear so many stories and experiences (sad and happy) from various walks of life.

I volunteered at a homeless shelter and it's pretty rewarding. It's pretty fun to hang out with the kids there that are in bad situations but make the most of it. That kinda stuff I would pay to experience again.

I don't personally have any experience with a volunteering group/club, but my brother did in high school and most of the activities involved cleanup or working at the food bank.

If you can, try to look for volunteer work in places like the library or a nearby school. I was a teaching assistant at a summer art camp when I was in high school, and my family sometimes volunteers at Second Harvest food bank sorting groceries. Some friends volunteered at nature camps which was kind of cool. There's lots of opportunities out there!

I spent 2 weeks in Spain teaching English to Spaniards. It was pretty much a free 4 star hotel stay in Spain, all I had to pay for was the flight, and apparently the whole time I was there it counted as community service, so I got like 400 hours. I also do a lot of work around my town picking up trash and maintaining parks and stuff, and occasionally I volunteer at organizations around town. Usually it isn't much fun, but if you can have a friend do it with you its fine, because instead of just talking you can talk and do stuff.

its fun to do volunteer work

if you feel depressed or you feel like you're just a tool in society, you can do volunteer work, be rewarded, and feel good about yourself that you contributed to the community plus it gets you a job easily. so yea, feels good to help people who are in need that are in a situation that you were in before