You can also volunteer. I’ve volunteered at animal shelters, the library, NAMI, and for the county. I was also a advocate for PAIMI ( protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness) and I was a board member of a deaf woman’s shelter. If your good at math that schools are always needing tutors for maths. I made great friends at the animal shelter. We cat people were a tight group. I’m sure the dog people had their own tight group though. I joined to work with the dogs but ended up in the nebulization room which was mostly cats and from there did more and more cat stuff. It was a huge shelter though so it may not be that way at every shelter.