Do YOU ever get VOLUNTEERED for THINGS cause you WORK at HOME??

Nobody dares volunteer me for anything, even before I started back to work. I may be meek, but I've had no problem saying NO to anyone that has tried. I think its because I consider anything I do take on as a serious commitment & I just don't make them that often. In Oct of 2005 I committed to bottle feeding a kitten and then last spring I committed to helping with mom until she was full time in the nursing center. I only missed 2 days with mom, once because I was throwing up and the other because I was sick - both times she was already in the nursing center, once last summer with her broken arm & the other after we had moved her over in Nov.

Actually, my children's school calls me all the time asking me to volunteer for something. Whenever they do not have enough volunteers, the lady in the front office tells the coordinator to call Tia. When I was walking up to the school to pick up my kids, I was not even past the office before someone came out and asked me to volunteer to watch the kids at recess the next day because a teacher was out. I was the only parent asked. It seems like every time they need someone...Call Tia, she'll do it. And I know it is partly my fault too...because I do it. ha ha Maybe if I actually said "no", then I wouldn't be the "go to parent". But the lady in the front knows that I am a Stay at Home Mom and volunteer often. So...I seem to get volunteered very often by the lady in the front office....as if I have nothing else to do. I feel ya sister!!! LOL

This has happened to me and I just let rip with the anger on their puny heads! It's sort of like being a recluse, just because you are in the house and you hardly ever leave, people want you to cook for them, clean and change their nappies!!!!!!! Wipe dust off the TV, anything else I say, but they still give me a list on the fridge of things to do, and then the list is bundled and unravels and then there are more jobs to do!!!!! Deep breath.... must remind myself to have a holiday!!!

yes i do! an i hate it an it makes me so mad.everyone wants me to take care of my mother-in-law an run everyone butts all over town an even call me up to take them to the dr. or go get milk for someone.wow.an i work at home an outside the home for myself an they think i have nothing else better to do.so i know how you feel.an of course i always agree to volunteer to do it."but starting this week i told everyone they had to start paying me gas money. lol.so maybe now they wont call me any more.you should try to do the same.

I don't get 'volunteered' so much but I sure to get asked alot - I mean everyone I know knows that I am 'WORKING' it just happens I do it at home but I still get asked about doing things for others. It's really hard on me because I don't say no and it really kills me when I have to because of a deadline or something.

I had that problem with my mom...I guess she figured since I was home so much that I had all this luxurious time on my hands to do all the cleaning, vacuum, laundry, etc etc..the worst was years and years ago, when one, she volunteered me to clean a neighbor's apartment..like I didn't have enough to do with our own? And two, she volunteered me to fix dinners for another neighbor...this I really hated as the woman didn't like to have her dinner any later than 6:30---at that time I was doing a lot of photo work including developing and printing my black and white photos...but oh gee, heaven forbid I didn't get this woman's dinner on time...so I would always had to cut my work short..yes, the woman gave me a few bucks for my effort..but it just wasn't worth it...I wanted to do MY work..so after awhile I did quit my "volunteer" work

I have one word that was hard for me to say when I was younger and I felt I needed to do extra to show my loyalty to the job. However, no one was looking out for me and I started to burnout at work from doing my job plus volunteering to do other things. The word I learned to say was "no". I am a Christian and I do volunteer but I no longer stretch myself so thin that it interfere's with my job and family and spending time with God. Even Jesus took time away from the crowds of people to get rested and refreshed. Try learning to say "no" with out feeling guilty. Remember, if you don't control your volunteering it will control you and you will resent it instead of enjoying it.

Thank goodness my kids are grown and those days are over! LOL I worked part time and then came home and homeschooled the kids. I would honestly have these mothers that DID stay home 24/7 with their kids volunteer me for everything because I wasn't there to say no! LOL

Oh I get it a lot. My parents and my siblings often will do this. Not my sister but my one brother and his wife. They will call at the last minute even though they've known for over a week to ask us to pick up their daughter from school and keep her for a few hours because one of the has a doctors appointment. I get calls from my mother asking me to go shopping with her. The woman can't go out alone at all, don't ask me why because I have no clue. They need something done at the house or run to someplace they call here figuring we have nothing better to do and we can do it. Ugh I wish. What little money I have coming in is from the computer and I need to work it as much as possible. Little hard to do that in a car. It's very, very frustrating when they do this.

I know the feeling, time and time again people are volunteering me for stuff, and though i have other things to do, usually i help them out anyway because i guess i just don't want to hurt them. I'm learning to say no, but it's still a bother to do that, but it's more of a bother to have people thinking that i don't have much to do, they don't understand that i spend 18 hours or more a day at times grueling over the stuff that needs to get done, and i don't have much time for myself. Yesterday i actually took time to myself, took the day off from everything and everyone, i sat down on the couch, watched matrix 1 through 3 and then had a 5 hour nap, i guess i must have been quite tired haha.

I try to avoid those situations. I had to do a little when the kids were in school. Now we tend to stick close to home and stay by ourselves, in part to avoid getting stuck with something we really dont want to do.

Yes, people often have the thinking that when one work at home, one has lots of free time for many other things. And so, they are the ones to be VOLUNTEERED at first choice. Even though I worked in office, I do get VOLUNTEERED, precisely for the one reason that I have the freedom to take leave as and when I want it! lol.

Yup it happened to me alright. all the time. Pls. add me as your friend. Thanks and more power!=)

Hello, I am a new comer. I want to know what is your job which can work at home. I have interest as I have to take care my child and I really wnat to work at home.

I get work where ever I can find it.

I do not work from home. However some of the same principles apply when I have time off, or a flexible schedule, it seems to get taken up. There are other situations that are similar, as well. I used to have a commercial driver's license. I gave it up, because I was often asked to do things without extra pay, or even if it was difficult because of my schedule. I gave it up because I got tired of having to drive, and keep discipline too, all as a favor. I can think of some more work inequities, but I do not think much will change if I just list them all.

ohh, how true! I "had" to volunteer to be treasurer of Weight Watchers. Partly this was because I was the only computer literate person in a group of around 35 women. They simply don't realise what a difficult job it is. When I reported a couple of weeks ago that we overspent by $500 last year, I was told the following week that they don't want to hear things like this! When I took over as treasurer about 6 weeks ago, the floppy disc that was given to me with ALL the data, had not been formatted correctly, & was thus, not useable. I have told them I take my daughter to swimming training 6 times each week, two of which are in the early hours (4.00am & 5.00am).

god,yes.i finally had to turn my back on some of my friends for this. and the thing that really got me is the ones who proceed to be angry if you don't get whatever they asked for done by their timetable,when i have an ill mother,and running a household to deal with,and they're getting the help for free. urgh.no more.

I work outside the home I wish I had the luxury of being home to even be asked to even have the time LOL.