Shadowing/Helping Out Someone Else's Business

[Hunter Johnston]

Hey ladies & gents, Upon completion of this deployment I'm currently serving on in the Middle East, I plan to seek out and hopefully find someone willing to let me work with them on the weekends (for free of course) in order to get a good idea of how a specific REI business works! Has anyone else had any experience in this and did it help you out? Also if the area I plan to shadow in isn't necessarily the area I plan on investing in would that be a burden or is that okay?