Parmo
Tour Winner
No offence Homer and I agree with most of what you say, but you say its a thankless task yet most committee members get paid for their troubles one way or another. The best members are the ones not getting paid like yourself and people running the BBQ on Captains day or selling raffle tickets and the likes.
I am sorry but I have never ever seen a committee member being paid for their troubles ever! In fact for the 4 years I did it it cost me money, drinks etc during the various monthly meetings and the supposition that committee members were obliged to attend all the club functions. The only thing that, in the last few months on committee we were given were a few sandwiches on the main meeting night as most of us had to forgo our dinners to attend them.
When I did my years of service the only retired people of 16 members on the committee were the representatives of the veterans section, and I dont think that many committee members over the years have been retired people with "lots of time on their hands" they are almost always middle aged business men who do a good job in the main.
There are often people like the poster on this topic who want to do stuff and they are generally encouraged by the club committee but, in my experience, they drift away very quickly and often dont do what they initially promise very well - that, however, is very much a generalisation!
Chris
I guess it depends whether your committee get paid or not, some of ours do, not a great deal but they get some.