Welcome back. As much as we all like to moan on here, remember people generally talk more about the negatives rather than the positives. Especially on here. There’s a reason the Grind my Gears threads seem to get more traffic than than Making me Happy threads. 
It’s why I am keen on pushing the Celebrating Success thread.
@WestlandScout has basically summed it up with the best TLDR.
With all of that in mind, the questions:
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Admin, as above, is a big one. Especially the on-boarding process which can be tedious. It’s a morale drain. Bitterness between volunteers seems to be another big morale drain too. Turns out volunteers with no management experience trying to manage other volunteers isn’t the best recipe…
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The cadets. Them coming in on the Tuesday night saying how awesome their weekend away doing X,Y and Z was. Seeing young people progress further then you’d have expected. etc etc. I also just enjoy giving back what was given to me when I was a cadet. Like you, I think it made me what I am today. And that’s mostly good.
Personally for me the balance has shifted more to point 1 than 2, and I’m not nearly as involved as I once was. Frankly that’s down to other CFAVs. Personal battles. But if you’re coming in fresh, that should be less of a problem!