Family, not Coworkers

With a great job, comes great friends inside of that job. For example, I've known my boss since I was a camper at Camp Beech Cliff, Her name is Sylvie and she's the most laid back person on this earth. But she isn't the only cool person in my place of business. In fact, I love everybody that I work with. Since there is minimal stress that comes to each other, we act more like friends than we do coworkers. Each day all of our staff comes in an hour before camp starts, so we all get to talk and chill out for a little while. During the day, our groups sometimes interact together as well, so we get to hang out with our campers as well as our staff members. Being able to chat with fellow counselors throughout the day is really helpful, because you get to talk to someone about things that aren't in a child mindset. It's a relief. After work, we normally chill for a little while as we all progressively leave the camp until the next morning.

A couple of times during the week we have staff meetings, which aren't even close to actual meetings at all. We talk about our days/weeks, and say what awesome things happened, or what camper did some kind favor to another camper. It's pretty up building to hear how well our friends in the staff are doing and how well our campers are doing as well. Every experience is a good experience.


Throughout the summer, our staff becomes a lot closer knit. We all hang out after work in town, or go out for a staff dinner. Nobody ever gets left out, we're a family. One of my best friends works with me here too, we've been tight ever since we were both campers here. His Name is Zach, and he's so chill. We have grown up together every summer since we were six years. We both connect when it comes to music. We have grown up listening to the same bands, and we introduce new styles and genres to each other. He's also very easy to talk to when it comes to important matters, and has an extremely philosophical brain. Both of his parents are professors at Washington University, and have both worked formerly at Harvard and Princeton. You would think, coming from a background like that, that Zach would be a totally stuck up prick. But I've never met somebody so easy going and open minded. He's my brother, and I respect him a ton for never judging my opinions or ideas. He's always got my back, and I his. I'm glad that I can say that I work with him all summer, along with the rest of our amazing and vibrant staff. Like I said earlier, we are a family.


Zach is all the way to the left standing in between the short older lady and the girl with her tongue stuck out. He's got crazy hair...