Blog 49 My Job

My first job was a camp counselor at a summer camp for tweens. It wasn’t the most well paying of work but it was pretty fun. The job required me to be trainer and a systems administrator for a single owner proprietorship. It was an awesome experience in more ways than one. In one part of my job I was taking care of kids, playing with them and having fun. In the other component I was laying down the Employee Resource and Customer Relations management software and network for my employer.

So in between being extremely geeky and a fun teacher I had to have fun over the summer. I discovered local restaurants nearby and eating out became a savvy pleasure. The sad part I had to do most of this with a fractured foot. That naturally meant a lot of my fun was limited but I was grateful enough for what I could do. Short of that I worked under tremendous pressure. I had to manage nine centers and communicate the distribution of resources between the centers. I had to manager vendors and that was the hard part. Getting people to do their work was harder than actually doing them yourself.

The most fun part of my job was probably organizing the end of summer party. I had to get the cake organized and order the food. Picking food was mostly fun because I got to eat a lot of free sample. Mostly the job ran through fine, I loved my kids and my employers were good people. Loved it.