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Not sure I'd help with the situations you describe because...
Scenario 1) I'm terrible with cars, and I've never encountered a car on the side of the road that didn't already have a car or two stopped to help them out.
Scenario 2) Living on razor-thin budget myself, so couldn't help financially.
I do help people, and they're not always people I know.
I helped a random grad student put up her poster at a conference when I noticed she was trying to do it alone. I help my labmates with random tasks. I spent most of this week helping the rest of the students in my SEM class figure out how to use certain settings on the microscopes, and troubleshooting minor technical problems ("I can't figure out how to get the XEDS to sync with the Zeiss!" "Oh. Have you opened the Remcon port?" "What's that?" "Here you go." "Wow, it works!" or "Backscatter won't work!" "Have you inserted the detector?" "There's a separate detector?"
Yes, I help people. I enjoy it.
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