Every year my company holds a Volunteer Week. The company does a fantastic job of proactively identifying volunteer opportunities throughout the year for those who are civic-service minded. But then in late September, they do a big push to get every employee across the nation to volunteer in their community. There’s an entire website to connect volunteers with projects . In the Bay Area alone, there were over 25 projects for employees to sign-up.
I picked the one closest to my home. I’ll admit that I was a little disappointed that it meant that I’d lose three hours on a Saturday morning. Yes, I was being selfish with my time. I’m a busy working mom with weekends that can be more stressful than my meeting schedule. I’d much rather have found a community service project that was in the morning during the week… might as well kill two birds with one stone and get a break from work while serving my community. But alas, I picked convenience of the local over my desire to play hooky at work.
And on last Saturday, I showed up to the Second Harvest Food Bank with 20 other employees of my company to bag produce for needy families in my community.
