I have had bad experience with guilds. The one I went to there was so much arguing and disagreement at business meetings. They would have a really good guest speaker and spent so much time with other things that the speaker was left with a short amount of time. I didn't enjoy it at all. I know of others in my area and they seem better but they are in the daytime and I work. I might try again when I retire but things would have to be alot different. The only thing was they always had a charity project going and I thought that was a really good thing. I just don't like the other part of it.