I was also giving my resources to BOINC back home
Left the PC running for days, in the end I helped cancer research, so that felt good.
Now, if some of the volunteers come to me asking for money, I ask them, have you heard of BOINC?
Nobody has, then I tell them I already helped with cancer research, you should do the same , using your PC ( or your mobile device).. and I get weird looks cause they only want my money.
That's an interesting way to look at it. I'm sure they gave you funny looks. I'll have to consider switching my XMR mining PC over to BOINC completely once I reach the next payment threshold.