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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
Volunteer work is great for everyone to do. The organizations should be treating you well because you are giving of yourself to help them, therefore, you don't get the same kind of stress like from a paying job. It gives you a purpose and you can feel appreciated.
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Exactly! I find it far less anxiety raising than a job. As you are not being paid there doesn't exist the investment in you that you perform to extpectations. Similarly, there can be less investment of yourself; as, not being paid, you don't
feel the need to perform.
I have never been called aside to discuss my performance in a volunteer situation.
Remember too that being a volunteer in an organization there is a wider variety of people with different skills and levels of performance. Personally I don't find the drive to be above average - and the organization doesn't expect that of you either.
Yet, being less inclined to out-do myself and being able to just enjoy myself, the above average performance just seems to follow.