+1
My first year in retirement I underwent training for three different volunteering positions, but found, to my surprise, that I wasn't ready/interested to go back to being under someone's thumb. Their needs, their schedule, their rules . . . at that time it smacked too much like returning to a j#b.
I have a feeling I wouldn't be cut out to be a volunteer because my attitude is along the lines of hey, I'm not being paid for this, I'm doing YOU a favor by even being here, so you'll be grateful for the help you get. Start barking orders at me, micro-managing every little thing, throwing in a little office politics and so on, and I'm gone.
Back in college, I helped out with the youth group in our church, for about a year. The guy who was the actual youth leader was pretty cool at first, but it didn't take long for his D-baggery to rear its ugly head.
The last straw ended up being one fall when we were going to take the kids to a corn maze. Half of them rode over in my car, and the other half in his. It was understood that the kids were paying their own admission to this thing...we weren't springing for it. Well, when we got there, we found out that a good number of the kids didn't have money. The youth leader told me that he'd cover some of the kids, and I'd have to cough up admission for the rest. When I told him no, he got mad with me and said that either I paid for them, or I couldn't go in...just like I was one of the kids! I was just a college kid myself at the time, making about $7/hr working part time at a department store, and covering most of my college costs myself!
Well, I reminded him that half of the kids rode over in my car...would he like to be tasked with taking ALL of them home, in his? He ended up covering the rest of the kids, but that was the final straw. I washed my hands of helping out that youth group after that. Not too long after that, I think that group actually got disbanded, as membership dropped off.