audreyh1
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I'd like to thank this thread for erasing the pre-guilt I've been feeling. It always felt like everyone in FIRE was doing tons of volunteering, which is more than this introvert could bear to imagine. I run a couple of ventures without payment over the years, which benefit a large number of people but which can be done almost completely from my computer. That and money might have to be good enough. [emoji16]
We didn’t set out to volunteer although I did look at volunteer travel like helping with digs or nature oriented science in exotic locales.
What we did was get involved in areas of our interest and occasionally pick up a short-term volunteer gig or project that we felt made good use of our unique skills. In many cases we came up with the ideas and implemented them. We could see a use, so contributed.
Other than volunteer hiking trail work, we were never involved in a service organization or had regularly scheduled volunteer hours, or did things that that were very basic.