Freedom

I've resigned from my board and editor position with the local nature group; Over the past year I came to realize that the majority of them are retired or otherwise devote their 24/7 to this and I just can't, I have too many other things going on, in particular a FULL TIME JOB and classes.

The heavy demands that were made on me started to make me feel crazy and not only that, in what I've come to find is fairly typical "activist" fashion, they could be quite rude and pushy in getting what they wanted in each month's journal. So basically, that's not me. Also, they seemed to primarily focus on birds. I never intended to join a birdwatcher's club and I would likely have never volunteered in the first place if I'd known that was basically their only focus/main interest.

The sense of relief I feel at having given this up though is phenomenal! I should have the last painful journal issue out the door by tonight. Volunteering should never feel like a job you hate; sadly, that is what this became. It's too bad, it could be a good organization, but it really doesn't appeal to younger people and the current members are older and stuck in their ways in my opinion and the overall tone of the club is very stodgy so they will never get the younger membership they so badly need.

I'm probably not done with volunteering; I'll just make sure it's a different scenario.