How Do You Volunteer Professional Services?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @08:18AM from the with-caution dept.

keefus_a writes "My wife and I usually take a week long vacation in the Spring and I tossed out the idea of volunteering abroad. Neither of us has a problem with doing manual labor, or whatever task is needed. However, I thought it might be of some value, and substantially more rewarding than our daily grind, if we could volunteer our professional services (I'm a network guy and my wife has a master's degree in counseling). The problem is that I haven't found any resources for doing so on a short-term basis. So I ask Slashdot. Has anyone ever done short-term volunteer work in your professional field? What organization did you contact? Or are we better off donating money to a particular cause and just working on a tan?"

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Re:Easy... by raddan · 2010-01-20 10:10 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This is why Massachusetts now has Scott Brown as a senator. Me, me, me.
Re:...your life and the fruits of your labor... by Totenglocke · 2010-01-20 11:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Annnnnnd to prove my point about the collectivism, I get modded down for daring to think people should be able to make their own choices. Fucking. Priceless.

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