Does this specific case qualify as volunteer work?

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Pat

I volunteer at my local gamestore (Warhammer, Warmachine, Magic the Gathering, etc...). It is a for profit enterprise but what I do supports the local gamer community and I act as an agent of that community.

I benefit from the work I do in the sense that I may at one day use a piece of terrain I make, but I also do work that I have no way of directly benefiting from like teaching young gamers to paint or play. I have no claim of ownership on anything I make for this. The hallmark of our community is that we are both welcoming and extremely tight knit; when I was injured and needed an absurd volume of blood they raised literally gallons of it, more than I needed, in a blood drive. When I was young and ran out of money and got mono these people took care of me.

What I do helps the store but it also helps the community; without a place to congregate there is no community of this type outside of competitive events. Outside of schools and universities there are a few scant nucleii for communities of this type to form around without game stores. Our player base for warhammer is even an organized group with no store involvement; the work I do is for them. This group has no membership dues or obligations. We are NOT a non-profit and are only organized on the most basic of levels.

I'm considering putting this on a resume, it's not court mandated or up to a defined spec. I think I can justify it from an ethical and moral perspective. I do good for a community without directly profiting myself; I don't get a discount or the occasional "look the other way". My train of thought for this is that a former boyscout may sit on a bench that he built for his Eaglescout rank and not have the community service be revoked; A person may raise funds for their church but that's okay. The store offers tables for free so no one else is making a profit off of my work, at least not directly. The work that I do increases the size and excitement of the community while increasing the drawing power of the store.

I help kids, adults, both occasionally with special needs. I can honestly say I do this for the community; I do this so gamers present and future have an inviting place to simply be. Am I helping the store or am I helping the community? Can it be both? I would appreciate any input on this PLEASE! I reach out because I have a bias that's too ingrained to consciously ignore. Personally, I keep coming back to this quote from John Burroughs, "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." Anybody with thoughts or a rebuttal please give me some perspective.

Thank you

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People with disabilities is a 100x better then saying special needs. I have a disability and enjoy games. It help give enjoyment but unless you design games for people with disability which is all different it only helping the store. Unless your giving the games for free. There are many types of disabilities like hearing impair who may speak sign languages.

Did you have a tree house when you were a kid?

Fuk m

I always wanted one. Pops couldn't build me one though cause of his work. My kids will definitely get one!
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LMAO I used to make a fort out of pillows.

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i had a super deluxe tree house as a kid ... my father was an architect and designed it himself ... there were stairs to get up to it ... a porch ... and inside was room for two twin beds and a table between ... the back wall was all windows which looked into a forest ... under the tree house was a bench and a hammock and a swing ... and, if the parents weren't looking, it was possible to jump from the tree house into the pool :O) i am 43 years old and my brother who still lives in the same area told me the tree house had recently been torn down, kinda made me remember all the memories ...

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