Volunteers and paid employees
The park I am volunteering at hires part-time summer help and has some college interns. They all get a salary. They are in their late teens or early twenties, whereas I am seventy. I am doing maintena...
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I think it is very, very unlikely that the kids are thinking in terms of chain of command, totem poles, and volunteer vs. paid intern. Young people just don't care about that stuff.
If you are getting resentment vibe, it's either because those particular kids resent any adults telling them what to do, or you are imagining it because you don't want to be in the boss role.
Being a boss is a whole new set of job skills. It takes effort to learn, and, for us introspective types, it takes some soul searching. Your bosses probably don't realise this -- they already have the skills of supervising and they forget how hard they worked to learn them, and they may not be the soul searching types. They don't realise they are asking a lot of you.
I agree; it is ok to say that you did not sign up for a supervisory role and you don't want to do it. You can soften the blow by pointing out that it takes a lot of skills that you don't have. Flattery will get you everywhere :).
If you are getting resentment vibe, it's either because those particular kids resent any adults telling them what to do, or you are imagining it because you don't want to be in the boss role.
Being a boss is a whole new set of job skills. It takes effort to learn, and, for us introspective types, it takes some soul searching. Your bosses probably don't realise this -- they already have the skills of supervising and they forget how hard they worked to learn them, and they may not be the soul searching types. They don't realise they are asking a lot of you.
I agree; it is ok to say that you did not sign up for a supervisory role and you don't want to do it. You can soften the blow by pointing out that it takes a lot of skills that you don't have. Flattery will get you everywhere :).
