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Should I resign from my position within a club?
To make a long story short I decided to join a club at college and was given the position of treasurer on the exec-board. I joined because the organization was aligned with my career goals and I wanted to be part of something in my community.
Well now I'm a couple months into it and not really feeling it like I was before. Only about 8 people showed up to our first meeting and nobody really seemed too enthused about it. I also didn't realize that we needed to raise money and it's a lot of money ($1700) per person. I don't think that's realistic at all for college students. We just started our first fundraising activity and it's like people couldn't care less about it. I've been going out of my way to help and to get other exec members to participate and everybody just magically vanishes when I ask them to help...
I'm thinking about resigning. It just seems like a giant waste of my time. I do want the title on my resume, but I'm not feeling like it's worth it if we can't even raise the money to go on the trip that our group is built around going on. I would sound like a failure if anybody ever asked me about it "Well yeah I did have an exec position for the group, but no we never went on the trip".
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This is not a question I find easy to answer based on the information you gave. I would like to know more about the club and why this trip and the club are so intertwined.
That information aside would it not luck better on your resume if you could write you joined the club and their were only a few members who's interest in the club was marginal at best. with your efforts and leadership you were able to build the club into a functioning organization with enthusiastic membership.
when I had to look at resumes for a position I would look at latterly hundreds something had to make a resume make me stand up and take notice. something like what I wrote above would catch my attention and most definitely get you a first interview.
Think about that and send me more information on the club and I will see if I can offer you any suggestions on how to start building interest and members.
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It's not like you applied for and got this position for your skills to do it. YOu got the position simply because no one else was willing to take it. The fact there is so little participation shows this group isn't at all what everyone seems to think it is. I am betting everyone who did sign up for the club did so for the same reasons as you, hoping it was an easy way to have something else that sounds impressive to put on your resume. Since you have reluctant board members, it sounds like the club is not a successful one and those hanging in just want it for their resume but if not for that, wouldn't think twice about quitting. What that attitude, its' no wonder no one else is pitching in. Rather than invest more time just to find I wasted my time by the end of my schooling, if it were me, I'd quit. You can always find something else to join, maybe in the community nearby that would somewhat align with your degree, not a club currently in existence at school. If nothing in common with your degree, any clubs or organizations that you are an active member of will still speak highly of you as a person as it isn't many who will volunteer to help at organizations, or be an active board member of another.
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