Scouting gives you interview material
Nov. 17th, 2008 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaThe first few questions of the interview that we actually got through were all customer service/teamwork/deadline questions. "When did you work towards a deadline? When did you work on a team, and how would you improve on the experience?"
Some of them, I could answer because of job experience. Others, because of the volunteer activities with the BSA. Teamwork? I've both participated in and led team-building exercises for crews and patrols.
And I get thinking about things like that. Scouting has given me opportunities that would otherwise have never come my way. I would have never learned to ride horses if not for the GSUSA and the BSA. I would have never been a reporter. I wouldn't have stood on nearly as many mountains, and probably wouldn't have been to Great Britain and learned to make pasties.
I also wouldn't know what to do in an emergency. I wouldn't have had nearly so much experience in organizing and leading things. I wouldn't know many useful little knots and lashings that work when even duct tape fails.
Scouting makes a lot of things available and possible to youth (and adults, sometimes!) that would otherwise be too expensive or too difficult to manage. It also teaches an amazing number of lessons, big and small, that turn out to be useful down the road.
Some of them, I could answer because of job experience. Others, because of the volunteer activities with the BSA. Teamwork? I've both participated in and led team-building exercises for crews and patrols.
And I get thinking about things like that. Scouting has given me opportunities that would otherwise have never come my way. I would have never learned to ride horses if not for the GSUSA and the BSA. I would have never been a reporter. I wouldn't have stood on nearly as many mountains, and probably wouldn't have been to Great Britain and learned to make pasties.
I also wouldn't know what to do in an emergency. I wouldn't have had nearly so much experience in organizing and leading things. I wouldn't know many useful little knots and lashings that work when even duct tape fails.
Scouting makes a lot of things available and possible to youth (and adults, sometimes!) that would otherwise be too expensive or too difficult to manage. It also teaches an amazing number of lessons, big and small, that turn out to be useful down the road.
