How would you spend your TIME..?

_{My volunteer profile at DigiVol}

This is a question that spurred me into my current situation of working from home, for myself instead of spending my days accumulating wealth for a faceless corporation (and essentially, the government).

Now I know, I've got a long way to go before I'm growing my own food and living off-grid, but I have learnt a very valuable lesson about my own work ethics - especially, when it comes down to how much of my soul I'm willing to give (or not give, as the case may be) however, I think I may have found a couple of interesting projects that are worth my effort.

In yesterday's post, you might remember that my source information was found at The Atlas of Living Australia and since joining the site in December 2018, I've submitted two wildlife 'sightings' and photos to my profile, as shown in the screenshot below; you may even recognise the photos.

_{ALA provide free, online access to millions of occurrence records to form the most comprehensive and accessible data set on Australia’s biodiversity ever produced. Their mission is to digitise Australia’s biodiversity knowledge, promoting excellence and enabling collaboration in biodiversity research.}

Anyhoo, they also have a portal called DigiVol where you can volunteer to complete tasks to either, capture data from specimen and object labels, transcribe text and capture data from historical documents or view photos to identify and tag images of animals.

Below is a screenshot of a recent project that I contributed to, called SUPERB PARROTS IN THE ACT – breeding success and hollow competition

_{DigiVol is a crowdsourcing platform that was developed by the Australian Museum in collaboration with the Atlas of Living Australia as a way of combining the efforts of many volunteers to digitise their data.}

So, as I was looking at wildlife photos and counting Crimson Rosellas, a familiar question slowly creeped into my mind...

If money were no object, what would you be doing?

AND I thought, 'well, dang it... I think I might be (almost) doing it...!'

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