Feeling Bored in Retirement? Become a Professional Volunteer

Choosing volunteer projects is a good way to share your time and talents. Here are some things to consider before you commit and guidance on finding the right fit for a meaningful, long-lasting, and FUN volunteer experience. Are you experienced? Before you decide, consider your years of lived experience and your diverse professional skills.  Also, consider vocational callings that never materialized into careers with compensation. Write them all down. Then consider places that would need or benefit from your expertise. This way you’ll have your choice of plum volunteer jobs. It’s not only a chance to give back but it keeps your hard-won education and work success up to date moving forward. Lonely nights and isolated weekends If you have lost someone near and dear to you, you may think it will be a long time before you are ready to face your post-loss world. The same feelings can accompany the loss of work relationships and a post-work lack of busyness or decline in feeling needed by others.  Sometimes giving of yourself through volunteering can channel your energy from situational depression to a place that needs your love: a veterinarian’s office, daycare, or library are just a few examples of...