It's not volunteering if you get paid for it. So why are we asked to put volunteer hours and community service on resumes to buy our way into scholarships and jobs? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
I wouldn't have a problem with it if so many people didn't do volunteer work just because it looks good on their papers. These same people who do tons of community service and care about others so much, are the same people who go around applying for scholarships even after they have college paid for and ******** over the underdog.
And you know what their excuse is? "If they had worked as hard as me, they would have gotten the scholarship themselves. They should have done as much volunteer work."
So, doing community service automatically makes you so much better than other people that you get divine right to steal their only chance to go to college and make something of themselves? I smell superficiality.
That's why you shouldn't get paid to volunteer, and you shouldn't have to be rewarded in order to be bribed into doing what's right. It mixes up who the real kind people are, and who are the bitches who are only in it to benifit themselves are.
For those of you who only believe that a good deed counts if you don't tell anyone about it. For those of you who do good things because it's good, not because you get something for it. For the true heroes who hold authentic altruism...Thank you and I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you get confused with this scum, but thank you for doing what you do anyway.
Amissa · Sat Apr 29, 2006 @ 05:51pm · 1 Comments |