No, but seriously, it's nearly going onto a decade of Camp Camp and I haven't yet drawn myself in the art style.
Yes, guys, I'd wear platform shoes to camp because I am trying to compensate for my height lol. I know for a fact that if the CC kids were real, they'd either be the same height as me or slightly taller.
Hear me out: All positions at camp have value and can be a part of many types of career, not just as a summer job.
Image ID: The Change My Mind meme that reads "Camp staff deserve to have their job respected as part of a career regardless of their position." End ID.
so for everyone (the three people on this planet) who are debating working at any sort of summer/all season camp, please do
like
just once you don't have to do it more than once if you don't want to but you'll make some of the closest friends you'll ever make and you'll learn to be emotionally available and maybe you'll have to call 911 for the first time or maybe you'll learn how to whittle (i did it was great) and you'll make like two dollars an hour but you'll make friends with the sixty two y/o chef and he'll give you the extra cookies after dinner's done and you'll have roommates for the first time and you'll learn to resolve arguments even though no one taught you how to and you'll learn to love camp coffee and even though it'll be exhausting it will be worth it
my experience working at camp has been so positive, and it isn't always, but it's an effort i make and worth every ounce of effort you put into it.
so I just finished working at a Girl Scout Camp for the second year in a row, and every week I’d get questions about whether the counselors going by silly “camp nicknames” was just a Girl Scout thing or a summer camp thing (for reference, my camp name is Garfield and some of my coworkers have gone by stuff like Zippy, Sunshine, Care Bear, Moth, etc. )
so when y’all went to camp as kids, did the counselors have camp nicknames, and is this just a regional or Girl Scout Camp thing?
When I was a counselor at a summer camp with OCD and ADHD one of my hardest tasks was memorizing the names of every kid both to their faces and off the top of my head so i would work on it when i went home practicing rewriting my 20 kid roster off the top of my head and to be honest id always first remember the kids who needed extra attention some for good reasons, some for bad reasons but the ones i had the hardest time remembering were the normal kids who didnt stand out much. It was like having the americas next top model panel in my head
I don’t feel like writing the fanfic for it, but I think a danger days girl scout camp counselor AU would actually work really well
They already have camp names. There are very few contexts where someone called something like jet star would make sense, but camp is one of them.
A small group of kinda underqualified/under-trained teens and young adults trying their best to take care of kid(s) while roughing it in the middle of nowhere is kinda the whole vibe of being a camp counselor tbh (at least in my experience).
Pretty much every reason to work at camp is valid. Want to teach in an outdoor environment? Sure. What to improve real life communication and job skills? Yes. Want to just have a fun summer outside with friends? Also valid.
The only wrong reasons to work at camp are if you want to have power over others in some way, because that's not ok. But there's hundreds of great reasons!