Quiet quitting of volunteering
When do I suppress effort or enthusiasm?
1 min readOct 4, 2024
There are situations and places;
- where a single person creates a single point of failure
- when group thinking silences different opinions
- when over-enthusiasm leads to committing to something I don’t want
- when I spend most of time on intangible and trivial matter
- when I don’t deliver tangible results
- when I see myself arguing over semantics
- when I don’t feel I like promoting the group I’m associated with
- when I don’t want to wear or keep merch from the group I used to belong
That’s the signal telling me I lost happy moments of volunteering. I scale back and stay silent…
Instead, I divert my energy to something productive and useful to communities and participants. It doesn’t have to be big and famous organizations.
Turning point
Saturday, 5 October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of parkrun. I’ll be participating in the historical morning run in London. I’ll be one of thousands of enthusiastic people. I feel proud of being one. I talk about it with my friends and family.
