Wait a second!
Here I’m trying to help, and you make me go through hoops? There’s something wrong with this picture.
That’s how I felt when, after having done a lot of research on available volunteering opportunities near me, I narrowed them down and started the application process. Not fun. The forms were so long, the questions, so deep and probing and covering so many years and requiring so many dates, that I felt I was applying for super fancy coveted jobs in corporate America.
First gripe – let me see the entire application before I have to fill it out. If it’s going to be six pages long and will ask questions that I consider have no rhyme or reason vis-à-vis a volunteer’s job, I want a chance to see that before I do all that work. Second gripe – as much as I understand that an organization wants to make sure of the caliber and the morals of their volunteers, they also could cut us some slack. I cannot believe the application for a volunteer position would basically be the same as the one for a job seeker. Am I wrong, just being lazy or self-righteous? Hmm.