Re: Volunteer in Toronto

[Jane Sorensen <judydh -at- TOTAL -dot- NET>]

Samantha,

Why the HELL do you want to volunteer your valuable time?  Work for free to
gain experience--excuse me, but I am really, *really* sick of Canadians
being so down on themselves (as a demographic or culture) that they work
for free and allow themselves to be exploited for some moneybag's benefit.
If you really want to learn these skills, have some creativity and
initiative and do a project for yourself.  Maybe you will make money or
achieve recognition, or maybe you'll only have those skills to show for it.
 The only thing you should be asking other people for is inspiration...or a
real, paying, job.

If you really want to learn online help, go buy the Microsoft book with the
CD in it.  Read the book, use Word, and use the compiler.  It is not that
hard once you get rolling. The book is around $40.  RoboHELP
(www.bluesky.com) is giving away an HTML help program for, oh, one more
day, for a two week trial, and it includes a white paper on the technology.

Why don't you make an online help-like recipe book?  Or compile your own
(or a friend's) poems and put it online for people to download? Or at least
contact a *real* volunteer organization like a college radio station (do
their record catalogue) or a high-volume charity to do some training
documents for them.

In the meantime, repeat these words so you know what to avoid:  DIGITAL
SWEATSHOP.

jane


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