Working at a summer camp can be one of your life’s best experiences And the bests don’t just stop at one thing. Camp is a place where everything pieces together so well that the whole experience is what makes it so awesome. To give you an idea of why working at a summer camp is so awesome and why you should get out there and do it, Camp Navigator lists 10 reasons to work at a summer camp.
The Experience
Working at a summer camp will give you a valuable experience. Whether or not you plan to work with kids in the future, you are likely to interact with kids throughout your life whether they are your own, a family members or friends. Working at a summer camp will help you to learn how to interact with kids and understand their behavior and personalities. What more, it will also look great on your resume. Working at a summer camp will give you an experience that is beneficial to any job from factors such as leadership, time management, dealing with differing personalities and working with differing abilities. These skills are also likely to be valuable to your everyday life, not just professional settings.
Be A Kid Again
While growing up comes with its many advantages, ask anyone and most people will tell you things they miss about being a kid. Working at a summer camp means you get to go back and be a kid again. Of course there are times when you will have to act as the adult you are, but many times you will have the chance to act just like a kid again.
Learn New Skills
While the kids are at camp to learn new skills, chances are you will pick up plenty yourself. There’s the obvious skills related to working with children such behavior management, but the other skills you will learn go much beyond this. You may have never gone fishing or shot a bow arrow, and camp is the chance to learn how.
Have Fun (And Get Paid For It!)
One of the major goals of any summer camp is for the kids to have fun. This means you get to have fun too! While working at a summer camp is often challenging and hard work, every day is also filled with fun, adventure and you’ll find yourself laughing more than you ever have in your whole life. And on the plus side, you can actually get paid for it!
Meet New People
Working at a summer camp means meeting a whole bunch of people from all over the world and making heap loads of friends. A summer camp is usually full of young staff which means you meet people your own age, and you make connections that will last a lifetime.
Travel
One of the great things about living at a summer camp is you get to travel and live somewhere new. For those in North America it might mean getting to visit a new state or a new area of your own state, and for those from overseas like me it means a whole new country to visit. Not only is a camp a new place to be but most of them are based in awesome areas surrounded by wide open spaces, mountains, forests and rivers.
Be Active and Enjoy The Outdoors
While at home you might spend your time in front of the computer or on your mobile phone, at camp you get the opportunity to be active and enjoy the great outdoors every single day. Some of the great things like hiking and camping out under the stars not only get you out in the open enjoying what the outdoors has to offer, but you also get the chance to be really active and keep fit.
So next summer, instead of sitting around and working an average job day-to-day, check out the hundreds of opportunities there are working at a summer camp. It’s an experience you’ll never forget, we bet.
