I have been interested in effective altruism since before I knew the term. I have long done things like give money to charity, buy products that seem ethical and avoid products that seem unethical (such as factory-farmed meat).

I do not derive much joy from any of this, though. It feels like a chore.

Nor do I particularly enjoy things like giving money to beggars. 

The kinds of easily-available altruism that I do enjoy tends to be helping people that are already relatively happy - for example when an old lady asks me to reach something for her on the top shelf.

(I might also also conceivably enjoy helping people with major things, but those opportunities rarely arise, and I do not want to seek them out.)

I have been reading a lot of Buddhist-inspired literature recently, and they talk a lot about "the joy of blamelessness". I... don't get that.

I am interested in hearing from other people who are into effective altruism. Do you derive joy from it? If so, how?