Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim explains why unpaid work matters: a GP who volunteered long-term learned what happens behind the scenes. Volunteers gain information and insight while providing public service. Time, he argues, is the most valuable resource you can give.
You're not working for free. You are working for information, you're working for insights. Two years ago I had a GP who worked for me. She's still working for me as a volunteer. Wrote to me and offered to work.
As a volunteer for a whole year and for six months and then decided to stay for 18 months now and.
Each time I offered to pay her.
She says no.
She says she's learning a lot in the process.
She's seen behind.
The scenes and actually seeing what it means to just start.
Something from the scratch and then build it out.
So I don't think it's working for free. Like all the people who read my.
Posts and articles and stuff.
One is the public service, secondly, they're giving me feedback to know what.
Is really valuable.
And thirdly, they are paying. They're paying with their time. You and I know that time is the most valuable asset. It's the lack of time that eventually kills you as.
An entrepreneur.
