Brotherly Forced Love

National Volunteer Week is almost over, so put down those soup ladles and get ready for 51 weeks of unchecked self-absorption. The Bush administration has been promoting volunteerism since Thursday of last week -- and what better way than by executive order?

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[mk]

I get quite a lot of personal satisfaction from the volunteer work that I do (I coach a girl's soccer team). It's fun. If it wasn't, I wouldn't do it.

No, scratch that, I'm a "Soldier in the army of compassion". Ha ha.

[joe]

I once had to give up some volunteer work I was doing, for a job.

The job didn't work out.

Lesson: self-interest often isn't.