Recreation Guy

It’s a strange thing to work in a building with city or town employees. The more you talk with them and get to know them you find out that they hate their jobs. Sure they make more money then us rec heads upstairs but at the end of the day, I’d rather enjoy my job then get paid a few extra bucks.

Occasionally, I think about how lucky I am to be doing what I do. It’s usually at those moments when a middle school kid has made a snide remark to me or a parent has asked me why I felt I needed to discipline her child – because he was running out of the class, hitting girls and telling me to shut-up, that’s why. When the day is done I look around and think about all the good things about my work; I get to wear the clothes I want to wear (suck it, suits!), I make a bunch of kids smile every day, the people I work with are great and I get to create programs that I am interested in. Ah, work is good.