Opinion

Camp counselor experience teaches life skills

As students, I’m sure most of us had a job this summer, just a way to earn some money for upcoming fall expenses during college.

The question is where and how you want to work for those brief months?

Besides the expected flipping burgers at a fast food joint choice, a category of chose to work as a camp counselor.

It is a different kind of job that requires leadership and willing to sleep in a cabin for two months.

Camp counselors probably don’t get paid as much as anyone else does with a summer job, but where they lack in cash they make up for hands-on experience.

They get experience in childcare, working with a diversity of people and mentorship.

When the time comes for parents to start sending their kids off to a site hours away from home for a week, camp staff are there to be the support the campers can trust.

The parents most likely don’t even know the staff that well but they are willing to drop the kids off into their care.

It is commitment and strong attitudes that binds the staff of the camp to the camp itself.

The campgrounds might be pretty awesome, but it is the people that truly make the experience for the camper.

Most of the time a counselor was actually a camper and now wants to be that mentor the individual had long ago. They want to be apart of that moment for the campers

When these counselors return home, or to their dorms they have an entire list of experience and beyond that involves the human condition.

You’ll find that one of the most important tools in a career is working with different kinds of people in getting the job done.