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    Volunteering provides both rewards and risks that are important to consider. While it can be rewarding through feeling useful and providing intellectual stimulation, it also requires a significant time commitment that can conflict with other obligations. Additionally, volunteering involves the risk of becoming emotionally involved or frustrated with unshared passions. However, volunteering may improve health and provides opportunities for personal growth through developing new skills and experiencing new challenges and perspectives.

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    Volunteering provides both rewards and risks that are important to consider. While it can be rewarding through feeling useful and providing intellectual stimulation, it also requires a significant time commitment that can conflict with other obligations. Additionally, volunteering involves the risk of becoming emotionally involved or frustrated with unshared passions. However, volunteering may improve health and provides opportunities for personal growth through developing new skills and experiencing new challenges and perspectives.

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    Volunteering provides both rewards and risks that are important to consider. While it can be rewarding through feeling useful and providing intellectual stimulation, it also requires a significant time commitment that can conflict with other obligations. Additionally, volunteering involves the risk of becoming emotionally involved or frustrated with unshared passions. However, volunteering may improve health and provides opportunities for personal growth through developing new skills and experiencing new challenges and perspectives.

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    It may seem on the surface that there couldn't be a downside to volunteer work.

    After all, aren't people


    supposed to give back a little, help others in need and otherwise engage in selfless pursuits? While
    volunteering is an admirable activity, it's worth pondering some of the potential pitfalls of volunteer
    work before you dive in. The better you understand the risks and rewards of volunteer work, the better
    decision you can make for you and your schedule.
    PRO: IT'S REWARDING
    By definition, volunteer work is unpaid, so the rewards you reap will be more emotional and perhaps
    spiritual rather than financial. The non-profit Botanic Gardens Conservation International, which relies
    on volunteers throughout the world, suggests the advantages of volunteering include "[the] opportunity
    to give back to society and feel useful," "[to] fill in a gap in your personal life" and "intellectual
    stimulation and growth."
    CON: TIME COMMITMENT
    Once you begin to volunteer and organizers of that particular activity or program see that you're a
    valuable asset, you make be asked or encouraged to do more. This can lead to scheduling problems
    and leave less time for school, family, work and other obligations. It's important to know at the outset
    what the expectations are of your volunteer work and to make clear to organizers just how much time
    you can devote to the cause. Setting boundaries is a necessary evil in the volunteer world.
    PRO: HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
    A number of research studies have shown that volunteering, particularly by older adults, provides
    health benefits. that activity boosted their metabolism to where they were burning twice as many
    calories. Physical activity and a positive outlook can also help reduce blood pressure, other studies
    have shown.
    CON: EMOTIONAL INVOLVEMENT
    Volunteering to clean up a park, help in a library or build a house for Habitat for Humanity can be great
    ways to stay busy and contribute in a positive way to your community, without much of a risk of
    emotional attachment to those you are helping. But if you volunteer to work with children, abandoned
    or injured animals, senior citizens, hospital patients or other people in need, you run the risk of
    involving yourself emotionally. That's not always a bad thing, but it can carry over into your family or
    work life and leave you sad or anxious about those you're trying to help.
    CON: FRUSTRATION
    But another key problem is that volunteers can become so committed and involved in their particular
    cause, they can easily become frustrated that others don't share their passion. The report states,
    "Many volunteers care a lot about the work they do and it bothers them that society doesn't place
    enough value on it."
    PRO: PERSONAL GROWTH
    , "Among the major rewards and incentives of volunteering appears to be the opportunity for personal
    growth... Participants mentioned being pleasantly surprised by discovering they are good at doing
    unexpected things. There was talk of growing self-esteem and confidence with each new challenge
    tackled and skill learned. Others found that life developed more intensity, more colour, as they were
    exposed to new experiences that would not ordinarily have come their way

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