No one can decide what you do for free but you.
Volunteering is often a portal into relationships and career experience. It’s also a way to give back to our community or professional environments. But, unpaid labor is often exploitative (or not possible for some of us). It’s a rotten conundrum. ⚖
An equitable system should do away with volunteer opportunities and every opportunity should instead come with payment or other meaningful compensation. 💸
However, we gotta recognize that the system will not change overnight. So even if people believe that everyone should get paid for everything, there will still be volunteer opportunities out there today and tomorrow. You have to decide whether you’re going to volunteer yourself and if you’ll ask people to volunteer. 🤔
Here are a couple of factors we usually weigh:
Dig in with us this week. Examine your process:
BONUS! 🎁 Bethann’s running a workshop in January on big picture goal-setting. If you want to sign up, visit meteorscicomm.org/courses.
*** Join this conversation: follow us here and say hello (how do you juggle 🤹♀️ the whole volunteer thing?) on Twitter with @MeteorSciComm (https://www.twitter.com/meteorscicomm).
Share this episode using this link: https://meteorscicomm.org/2021/11/04/ep6-the-privilege-of-volunteering
No one can decide what you do for free but you.
Volunteering is often a portal into relationships and career experience. It’s also a way to give back to our community or professional environments. But, unpaid labor is often exploitative (or not possible for some of us). It’s a rotten conundrum. ⚖
An equitable system should do away with volunteer opportunities and every opportunity should instead come with payment or other meaningful compensation. 💸
However, we gotta recognize that the system will not change overnight. So even if people believe that everyone should get paid for everything, there will still be volunteer opportunities out there today and tomorrow. You have to decide whether you’re going to volunteer yourself and if you’ll ask people to volunteer. 🤔
Here are a couple of factors we usually weigh:
Dig in with us this week. Examine your process:
BONUS! 🎁 Bethann’s running a workshop in January on big picture goal-setting. If you want to sign up, visit meteorscicomm.org/courses.
*** Join this conversation: follow us here and say hello (how do you juggle 🤹♀️ the whole volunteer thing?) on Twitter with @MeteorSciComm (https://www.twitter.com/meteorscicomm).
Share this episode using this link: https://meteorscicomm.org/2021/11/04/ep6-the-privilege-of-volunteering