Does volunteer work help my dating potential?

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Do you think that working at a volunteer position can still help my dating prospects even without a job? I'm getting pretty desperate.

Your desperation is likely what's limiting your dating potential.

Seconded ! You can, how-ever, get that work-experience for future paying jobs... Also, whilst you are working at a volunteer-job, what is stopping you from applying for additional jobs elsewhere ? Seriously, you should be trying to fill your whole entire week with a work-schedule, instead of free-timing on W-P.

Lack of work much volunteer/work experience is my limitation now.

You ended up re-quoting yourself whilst replying (the blank statement) but, that aside, that is why we work on strengthening our weaknesses. I had to do that during my martial arts training. You just need to go out there and get more experience. Whilst working at your volunteer-job, get some experience at filling out applications during your non-work time, get experience inquiring from various sources whether they have an open work-assignments available, heck, ask the employers at your current work-place as to whether or not they have any additional assignments or work-hours that you can volunteer for, what are you doing hanging around here on these forums all day, grab a phone right now if you have to and call up your employer if they're still open, and explain to them that you would like to try and get as much work-experience as possible, and make sure that that you pursue wanting that much work, otherwise you can just ignore my advice, even though this is coming from someone who used to work consistent weeks of 80+ hours or sometimes even up to 100 within the same week... thou art not getting any younger, you must become competitive, and IF you can avoid the numerous financial-traps that seek to enslave and make you homeless, you only need to be working such a full/over-time schedule for about five years in a row, whilst exercising the necessary financial-discipline, and you will be able to have at least a few-hundred dollars in your bank-account before you even reach 30 years of age, AND simultaneously have DEBT-FREE status. A guy in his 30s with that much established resources is a far more attractive prospect than a guy in his mid-twenties who's never held a job before (this is why I encourage youths to learn to start working and making money and getting jobs or even creating their own jobs and finding things to either offer as a service or charge people money for before they've even reached the age of 15 if possible).

Don't do volunteer work to meet new people, especially women your age, because it's probably not going to happen.

However, it strongly depends on what you volunteer for.

I volunteer for thrift stores, something most young teenage girls or young adult women do not do.

Most of the women at the last place were at least 40+ and the youngest woman was about 20 years old (but not my type).

Depending on your age, there might be more than a few women close to your age.

You could meet women working at a women's shoe store.

Hypothetically, yes. But you shouldn't volunteer for that reason. You should do it to be of service to your community.

LOL!! ! Those never get old!! !

I bet volunteering at an animal rescue would be a good place to try.

How? To give you something to brag about? Only way it's going to help you is by getting you off your behind and leave the place where you live and get out there and talk to people. May run into some girl when doing charity, then again you may not. There are hardly any grantees to anything, anywhere. Except in toasters.

As others mentioned earlier, desperation makes you "smell from a mile away" - females can also be desperate, but it's more of pathetic character in their case than "smelling desperate".

Money is always an issue for various reasons but volunteering is a brilliant use of time to engage in, progressing your life by spending time doing something useful and giving is very admirable and a huge plus point for many potential matches out there. I have a lot of respect and love for people who volunteer their own efforts to help people less fortunate or vulnerable, I hope to volunteer eventually, I hope to meet like minded folk passionate about helping others.