The summer spent volunteering for a political campaign has opened countless doors for him, which absolutely impact his future career options. It's too soon to know quite yet, but he's well positioned for a paid position with a national campaign this year as a rising senior. My dad took a similar path and wound as a staffer for Carter campaign and administration. If you're doing the campaign volunteer gig right, you're absolutely not just sitting around. DS went from stuffing envelopes to knocking doors to doing policy briefs all within one summer, and really made a name for himself.
Sure! Start looking local. DS1 has volunteered for city commissioners, county commissioners, a state supreme court judge, and last year, he interned for a State Rep (which would have been open to him without the prior experience). This year, he's applying to intern for a US Rep at her regional office.
I will say - I personally pushed for him to start out doing grunt work. He does have political aspirations, and I wanted him to know that it includes stamping envelopes / writing postcards. Don't underestimate the connections made doing that sort of work too. He's moved past that, but still knows that he needs to roll up his sleeves and do that stuff too. I don't know a single candidate who feels they are personally above it.
That sounds like a bad job and I don't blame him for not wanting to deal with that again.
Are there any "swim schools" in your area? My neighbor girl teaches at a local swim school and she makes GERAT money and doesn't have to deal with the flakiness of a general local outdoor pool.
Or check the local country clubs, we live in a small city of 150k but there are two park districts, a country club, a pool at State Farm park for their employees another private pool owned by Fire and Police, look at other pools. It's such a great job and most places are so desperate they will take what you give them.
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Thanks for this. Looks like one of our town organizations that DS volunteers with might have a paid summer job for him. I'm excited because it is a smaller scale operation and the staff already know and appreciate DS. I'm hoping DS will be open to it. He won't even have to interview.