Well done Jacqui, exactly my message to Jane. And just to add my thanks to you Jane for the years of commitment you have put into making Open Studios happen and into herding those willful cat artists with such good humour and skill. AA
I have now almost completely retired from volunteering and yes I got the "what will you do?" and "are you really giving it up?" questions too! It is wonderful - time to do what I really want to do - to sort out my house and garden at last, to do my own projects not help others - so liberating. And I realised that I am so much less stressed now. So well done and don't let anyone guilt-trip you into taking anything on again no matter how small that is a slippery slope indeed!
Thank you! It's hard, isn't it? Sometimes you can feel the only answer is to move and start again, but I have been gradually shedding volunteering responsibilities and resisting taking more on (though I have thought of volunteering at a local museum....). It is so much harder to take time off, or even permanently leave, volunteering as you are not giving up pay or an allowance of leave, so it doesn't feel 'fair' or your right to do so. Ridiculous I know.
Well done Jacqui, exactly my message to Jane. And just to add my thanks to you Jane for the years of commitment you have put into making Open Studios happen and into herding those willful cat artists with such good humour and skill. AA
Ah thank you Angela :)
I have now almost completely retired from volunteering and yes I got the "what will you do?" and "are you really giving it up?" questions too! It is wonderful - time to do what I really want to do - to sort out my house and garden at last, to do my own projects not help others - so liberating. And I realised that I am so much less stressed now. So well done and don't let anyone guilt-trip you into taking anything on again no matter how small that is a slippery slope indeed!
Thank you! It's hard, isn't it? Sometimes you can feel the only answer is to move and start again, but I have been gradually shedding volunteering responsibilities and resisting taking more on (though I have thought of volunteering at a local museum....). It is so much harder to take time off, or even permanently leave, volunteering as you are not giving up pay or an allowance of leave, so it doesn't feel 'fair' or your right to do so. Ridiculous I know.