-Hours, roughly 1000 kids come through Pali each week and you are expected to lead your own cabin 24hrs a day as well as teach classes from other schools. It was incredibly draining and confusing. Everyone's morale around April plummets faster than a lead blimp, with no help or support from leadership. People were so sick and exhausted and struggling with just a sneer from leadership.
-Money. Of course, no one goes into outdoor ed for the money and the fame, but gahhdaamm brother. It's the equivalent to 5 dollars an hour for being in charge of a kids life 24 hours a day. The "pay bumps" that they do are roughly 5 extra dollars A DAY. Not an hour A DAY.
-Leadership. Like others have said, it's a clique. Several amazing candidates were not only consistently put out of consideration, but bullied and treated differently after they weren't selected. Everyone is in their early to mid twenties and don't really know what they're doing. So much unprofessional behavior, especially from Ed/Procords. Always acting super snippy on the radio and getting upset should you ask them something relevant to their jobs. Upper leadership is especially bad about ignoring problems and have straight up ignored violence that has occurred in the houses.
-Upward mobility. Unless you're screwing one of management, good luck moving forward.
-Housing. I got lucky with an amazing group of people to live with, but others have really struggled with their living situation. You don't really get privacy, no single rooms are available unless you are leadership. If you get bad roommates, you're kinda screwed for 5 months.
