i volunteer with dogs.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain \"to benefit another person, group or organization\". Volunteering is also renowned for skill development and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served. It is also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a natural disaster. The verb was first recorded in 1755. It was derived from the noun \"volunteer\", in C.1600, \"one who offers himself for military service,\" from the Middle French \"voluntaire\". In the non-military sense, the word was first recorded during the 1630s. The word \"volunteering\" has more recent usage\u2014still predominantly military\u2014coinciding with the phrase \"community service\". In a military context, a volunteer army is a military body whose soldiers chose to enter service, as opposed to having been conscripted. Such volunteers do not work \"for free\" and are given regular pay.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have volunteered at an animal shelter before. It is generally considered and altruistic activity where one works with no benefit to themselves."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, I think that morally it is good to participate in altruistic activities to help remember that there is more than just the self."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it is great and it promotes goodness and improves the human quality of life too."}, {"role": "user", "content": " I agree, and on top of that it can be gainful for skill development."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That is true. Many volunteers are specifically trained in areas such as medicine, education or even emergency rescue. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Many schools even have service learning programs to volunteer and earn credit simultaneously."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That is a great program!! Some others also just work on there spare time and some only work on an as-needed basis like when there is a natural disaster."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You are spot on. I think national disaster relief is one of the most helpful ways to benefit society."}]