To keep volunteering or to quit?

[laura*]

Volunteering is supposed to make you feel good. If this was a paid position, it sounds like you would be looking for another job.

Originally, shifts were fairly evenly split between frustrating, neutral, and feeling good. And that was OK at the time. With my reduced participation, I've been choosing times with a much higher chance of "feeling good". But that doesn't seem to be enough anymore. Perhaps I'm not learning much anymore, and thus the time commitment is feeling excessive.

We've had a major drop in the number of core volunteers*, and are likely to switch to an all paid staff model. Most of the crew are actually interested in enough paid hours that this can be a half-time job.

* I think this is because of the change in our patron mix. There aren't enough "bike nuts" coming through the pipeline.