Salaried Worker Vs Volunteers

When will I be volunteering my time for people?

I'll do that when I have earned enough, worked enough and am planning for retirement. For now, I will just donate to support the work of charity organisations.

The recent charity sagas have turned me off entirely. Giving higher volume of work as a justification for higher pay is lame considering one is in a charity line of work. Neither is it justifiable to take it as given when the board of directors are the one deciding it.

In reality, a person can't possibly be squeezed to work 24 hours a day for a prolong period. It makes more sense to get more helpers to share the workload. This will also help to create more work opportunities given the high unemployment rate in Singapore.