What To Do With Life Until Entering Religious Life?

[OnlySunshine]

If you're serious about joining a community, learn to cook. Seriously. Especially learn to cook with almost nothing in your pantry. Do it.

 

Wow, what a crazy challenge!  :)

[arfink]

Wow, what a crazy challenge!  :)

 

There is always time to learn practical everyday skills, but with something like cooking, it may be best to do the dangerous early experimenting phases when others do not depend on you. ;) Just my two cents.

[ChristinaTherese]

There is always time to learn practical everyday skills, but with something like cooking, it may be best to do the dangerous early experimenting phases when others do not depend on you. ;) Just my two cents.

And then it's useful whatever you do with your life. Especially being able to make decent food with next to nothing on hand. (Wait... I'm sick and I have neither a car nor food in the pantry/fridge? What do I do now? That's happened to me recently enough....)

[TheresaThoma]

Do you mind me asking what kind of work it involves? I would really like to volunteer.
Early in the year I enquired to do volunteer work but places only wanted retirerees.

What can someone in their 20's do?

 

For the program I am in I live and work at a home of hospitality for pregnant women. Basically I am there to provide support to the women, it is a full time job and then some but I love it.

Most of the MissionCorps (my official job title) are in their 20s, so yes it is definitely something someone in their 20s can do. Most of us came to do volunteer work because we didn't really know what to do after college but wanted to do something.

 

There are lots of other programs you can search them through Catholic Volunteer network. https://catholicvolunteernetwork.org/

The other good thing is most of them work with AmeriCorps which means that you can get an education grant. Which is good for 7 years after you finish your term of service. If you are going into a community that requires schooling or you end up deciding to go back to school anyways you can get about $5500 dollars to use for education.

[Blue.Rose]

For the program I am in I live and work at a home of hospitality for pregnant women. Basically I am there to provide support to the women, it is a full time job and then some but I love it.
Most of the MissionCorps (my official job title) are in their 20s, so yes it is definitely something someone in their 20s can do. Most of us came to do volunteer work because we didn't really know what to do after college but wanted to do something.

There are lots of other programs you can search them through Catholic Volunteer network. https://catholicvolunteernetwork.org/
The other good thing is most of them work with AmeriCorps which means that you can get an education grant. Which is good for 7 years after you finish your term of service. If you are going into a community that requires schooling or you end up deciding to go back to school anyways you can get about $5500 dollars to use for education.

Thank you, I'll have to look for something along the lines of that in my country though (Australia) since I suppose that's only in the US?

[TheresaThoma]

I have no idea about programs in Australia. The AmeriCorps thing though is definitely only in the US

[AugustineA]

Support myself and a family member, pay off student loans, keep a regular prayer rule, go to Mass and confession regularly, try not to end up married.. :saint2: