What would you do without pay or reward? Do you have a passion that gives you drive?

[tad]

For me it would be dabbling in watercolor painting

That’s what I do, though I sometimes get paid for it. Here’s my latest.

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I also like to watch birds. They are their own reward. Currently I’m totally geeked out because the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count is just over two weeks away.

Here’s my latest bird watercolor. It’s of a Hooded Oriole I saw last Easter.

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[Sarcelle]

I’d like to try to grow a vegetable garden and be able to share the bounty with others.

Back in the 90s, there was such a thing called “Grow a row for the hungry”. Home gardeners would donate their produce to local soup kitchens and homeless shelters.

I wonder if it’s still a thing.

 

[phil3]

My wife and I have a garden every year and we always produce more than we can eat. What the neighbors dont take we give to the food bank. There is a lot left over a few hundred lbs of stuff

 

[RN69]

This is a very pertinent question for me right now. On November 16th I voluntarily retired my state’s RN license. A difficult decision as I have had an active license in one state of another for 51 years. Our state renews biannually and 12/31/2020 would be the last day to do so. I’d be paying for something I doubt that could make use of at my age and in this COVID environment. Plus I would have to get the necessary CEU’s which is another expense. So practicality won out over sentimentality. Then at the end of that week my state’s Board of Nursing sent out a letter to all nurses saying that nurses with retired or lapsed licenses who were in good standing with the BON would be able to participate gratuitously in vaccine administration if they wanted to volunteer their services. I was known as the Shot Lady in the doctor’s office where I worked for almost 20 years. Patients and parents would request that I administer immunizations to them or their children. This directive is of course for the COVID vaccine administration to be happening soon and into next year. If I was able to receive the Moderna mRNA vaccine in time to convert with an adequate antibody level response to COVID 19, I probably would volunteer to help get everyone in my community who wanted to immunized. To me that would be a worthwhile endeavor to perform without any pay.