{"id":7082,"date":"2022-09-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24slides.com\/blog\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:47:39","slug":"24volunteer-walking-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24slides.com\/blog\/24volunteer-walking-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"24Volunteer &#8211; Walking The Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article was written by Louise, Head of Operations, as part of 24Slides\u2019 Storyteller\u2019s Program<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spend a lot of my free time volunteering, and the most common question I get is: &#8220;how do you find the time&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fair question, as it does indeed mean I have to say no to other things, as there are only so many hours in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My type of volunteering is a big commitment, as it\u2019s year-round and it culminates in Roskilde Festival for one glorious week every summer. Until this year, that meant spending 6-8 vacation days, on top of a lot of evenings and weekends, making it happen every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now my next level awesome job @ 24Slides gives me 3 full days off, with pay, to do good for others. That means we shouldn\u2019t just inspire people to do good, we must also enable them to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simple form needs to be filled and approved, and you\u2019re off, easy peasy. In my case, that meant only using 4 vacation days this year. For others, who may not feel the need to go as crazy as I do in the volunteering department, they are now given 3 days to dedicate to others, freeing them from that long list of reasons why they couldn\u2019t do it before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are as many reasons to volunteer as there are people doing it. For me, it\u2019s (of course) the obvious one: trying to make the world a better place than I found it. 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