Just want some feedback on a stupid little idea I had. I'm pretty fit - I'm 35 yrs old, still have a six-pack, weight the same I did in high school, etc. Part of it is I play basketball and soccer, but another part of it is that I'm involved in two physically demanding charities. The first is like Habitat for Humanity, except we renovate existing homes for poor people. I always volunteer for the physically demanding work, which the rest of the volunteers (mostly retirees) are happy to let me do. So, on a typical Saturday, I'll shovel out and distribute a ton (literally) of limerock, or mix and lay down cement, etc.... The other thing I'm involved in is invasive species removal at this nature preserve I live across the street from. I spend a few evenings a week pulling kudzu down from trees (like a lat pull-down basically) or tug-of-warring that shit, etc. By the end of an hour of it, my arms and core are trembling from the exertion.
It seems a shame that many men are working paper-pusher jobs that we did not really evolve to do. So we have to work out in the evenings to maintain any semblance of physical shape and decompress. Meanwhile, there are lots of charities that need physically demanding tasks performed, but given that most volunteers are retirees, there's a shortage of labor to do those tasks..... I wonder if it would be feasible to form a volunteer group that's basically a bunch of young(ish) guys that want to volunteer for nothing but physically demanding charity work. Let all the local charities know that if they need some grunt work done, get in touch and we'll get it done.
Just a crazy idea I had.
It seems a shame that many men are working paper-pusher jobs that we did not really evolve to do. So we have to work out in the evenings to maintain any semblance of physical shape and decompress. Meanwhile, there are lots of charities that need physically demanding tasks performed, but given that most volunteers are retirees, there's a shortage of labor to do those tasks..... I wonder if it would be feasible to form a volunteer group that's basically a bunch of young(ish) guys that want to volunteer for nothing but physically demanding charity work. Let all the local charities know that if they need some grunt work done, get in touch and we'll get it done.
Just a crazy idea I had.
