Volunteering jobs or social service

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If finding full-time paid work is difficult, a volunteer position to fill the void is always a good idea.

I work on a volunteer basis as a tour guide at the Museum of Natural Science here in Houston.

I have done voluntary work for the council. So it's not really voluntary, but helping the council to achieve its programme. I gave up after a couple of weeks due to finding the software a pain in the arse and not being able to find anyone to connect with.

I try to get volunteer work - but have yet to actually get any.

I have the same problems with getting voluntary work as I do full-time paid work; I never hear back from them and even if they do try to contact me as I can't use a telephone it's somewhat difficult, and I have no references which many places seem to require. It honestly seems to me that I'd be better off forgetting about voluntary jobs and just focusing on full-time paid work, either way I'm not getting anywhere.

Volunteer work as far as I am concerned is a positive, by giving you something constructive to do with your time and giving you a little social interaction it helps with self-confidence, self-esteem and improving social skills or at least not letting them suffer. As long as you're comfortable doing what they want you to then great, and let them know if you have any problems.

Like I said, I went into it for the wrong reasons (I'm sexually attracted to older women and it showed, and showed badly - not a great starting point when dealing with things like this) so that, coupled with the difficulty of the software, plus the fact that it seemed to me to be self-defeating ultimately meant that I left because I was pretty depressed about the whole thing.