Pros
-was a fun job, at least at first. My fellow instructors were interesting but upper management sucks.
Cons
-coordinators all preferred to be instructors and will come in mid camp and change your lesson plans to what they would have done. This lead to some very upset kids. -this place operates more like a cult than work. You start out with a required week of camping as training and bonding, then throughout the summer they'll dangle the prospect of long term employment in front of your team. Very few people get kept on and if they are it's one weekend a month. The coordinators are the only people who actually stay on. -You're hired less on experience and more what clique you fit into. -Camps are very expensive but all instructors are paid minimum wage. Considering that the infrastructure of the camp is barebones and mostly DIY with field trips to public land, I'm not sure where most of the money goes but the Tracker's owner just bought a very large house near Mount Hood. -you don't fill out your own timesheets. Your coordinator will and you're capped at about 6 hours of overtime a week. You're expected to work beyond this and stay for after camp meetings and come up with lessons on the weekends. 4 people in my crew of 12 burnt out and quit by the end of the summer.
