by don taylor » Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:45 am
Jim, you have an idea, but may not know what it's like to chair a chapter. In that case, it all flows up hill. Everything that comes up that becomes an issue, people are quick to wash their hands and push it off to me. I ask for volunteers, i only get advice on how to do my job. As if that makes my workload easier. The i get people, who haven't done a THING, who want to step in and run critical programs, like our box building. What funds the boxes and hen houses? Banquets. Do they volunteer to work the banquet, sell tickets, contact sponsors? Do the leg work? You know the answer. People only want the glory jobs, the easy stuff. I have a few guys on the team, but not what i need. I pulled off a 1q00 man banquet, coordinated it, lined up ALL of the sponsor, all but 2 of the donors and sold 95% of the tickets to it personally. Then somebody wants to try and ride me about getting a box building program started in March when our banquet was in March? Had they attended a meeting, they'd have known that the funds aren't available in that fashion or that quickly.
If I would tell you what it's taking to get this wounded soldier hunt going, you'd wonder if I'd ever do it again. I will, but it's a ton of work.
