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True.

Hang out where people talk about volunteerism for very long and you'll run into conversations about managing and preventing burnout.

When something matters to you it's easy to overextend yourself. Lots of people join a group for 10-24 months, do lots of useful work and then vanish. The work isn't done, but they are.




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