Volunteer

So this year, when Harp asked what I wanted for Christmas, I said "Nothing. I just want to contribute."  mbnhm,

It's 2 January and I've done nothing but clean out my closet and give clothes to the ARC. Way to be.

I adopted a rescue dog for Harper in October.

My Thespians  bought food for the Littleton Families in need over Thanksgiving. I bought stuff.

Harp bought blankets and food to take downtown, I reimbursed her.

Ya, none of that is relevant. I did nothing. I contributed nothing.

Mazda now how this commercial running, take a test drive and they'll donate an hour of their time to a charity.

And I thought "Why isn't that a thing, always?"
Why doesn't Mazda just have a calendar with employees names slotted in for their time at a charity every month? Part of your job is to contribute else where. To give back.

That is why Thespians started contributing, I told them they have to. That being an honor society that doesn't give back is self indulgent bullshit. So they go downtown and make sandwiches and hand out blankets and water, they contributed to the Thanksgiving Baskets. 'Cause I'm a bitch who made them.

But I don't contribute myself. Which is why I Suck.

You can't make teachers volunteer on top of their jobs 'cause with our pay scale, it's pretty close to volunteer work, anyway. And everything we do for students outside of the school day is relevant.  but does that excuse me from contributing elsewhere?

NOPE.

I have a co worker who runs a whole Big Thing for Thanksgiving, feeding families at Thanksgiving. Hundreds. She's a teacher with four (soon to be five) kids of her own. So...ya, there goes the "I'm a TEACHER I'm EXEMPT theory."

Happy New Year. I suck.