As you make your list, consider adding FiNe into helping professions, like the friendly yet still professional nurses, and places that care for the needy. Also teachers in organizations like boy scouts and tutorship programs at schools. My FiNe mother spent most of her life as a nurse of some kind. Helping people feel more comfortable through ailing health, reading to them, joking with them through use of irony, helping them still feel worthwhile through their frustrations and depressions over their ill health. She also worked in a home for developmentally challenged adults, taking care of the meds and making sure that the clients got the medical help they needed. She also spent time teaching boyscout classes so that the boys could get some of their badges, particularly when the boys' parents didn't have time to help them. She's also done tutoring for kids, and music lessons for children. And later in life, she's been a secret santa for a number of very poor families. But her work isn't limited to christmas time. And she covers needed items as well as clothes, books, and toys for the kids. She began this after becoming a member of some forum that does this kind of stuff.
NeFi I have met have been through a number of odd ways. But usually they are in a more catalyst role. Whether it's as a pyschological therapist of some kind, or a friendly fitness coach, or helping needy people make the legal and welfare connections they need, or even trying to start something like local sustainability meetings. They aren't organizers, and they do better when they are helping a client for an hour or so and the client is expected to do the rest of the work. They prefer passing on ideas and information, and possible network connections...without having to do the actual work of getting it all to work. They might also be in a teaching type of environment...related to the passing on of ideas and information. Maybe you could look for activist programs near you, find one or two you feel comfortable supporting, and go to some of their meetings? They'll likely be one of the ones that is enthusiastic and bringing up ideas or possible actions the group can take...but aren't the ones making the decisions nor organizing it...or if are...then are constantly apologizing for having missed some important details.
Good luck. I hope you get some valuable ideas in this thread.




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