Scouting America reviews

There are a lot of evenings and weekends required, and you have to work directly with a mostly un-sympathetic volunteer base Your time is not valued as it should be. For example, if you have to work all weekend, there is no alloted time during the week to make up that lost personal time. Likewise the evening hours. If you are expected to be in the office or in the field during the day, and at meetings in the evening, there should be some time alloted to make up for those hours demended of you outside of the paid hours.

My second year I was appointed director of a program area only a few days before the staff training week started. The director that had been hired for the summer quit only a few days before camp began. In this situation, I was given too much autonomy and did not receive enough up-front training to be able to train my staff. I had to tackle the learning curve quickly in order to be successful, and I felt that I could have had more support from the senior staff in that aspect. Because of the nature of working at a camp, one can get tired of doing it. This happens at any camp and is not necessarily a drawback of this particular organization.