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We have the occasional “Friends of Scouting” event as well. On the regular campouts though, we never drink, but will find an hour to get away from the campsite a bit, but never so far the scouts can’t find us if they need us, and smoke a cigar.
And your point is?
Weekly meetings, that is intense. There are some families that are so into scouting and cub scouts that it is their lifestyle. You could literally do something scouting every day if you wanted to.
The same point he never has.
That there's a bunch of creepers in the Scouts! Stick to safe places-- like the Catholic Church.
The other thing that people that are posting that are forgetting, probably because none of them have school age kids right now is that it is nice as a parent to have kids activities line up on the same night/timeslot. It is more inconvenient if we had to take them separate activities on different nights.
Yes, this part. We all seem to recognize that its good for girls to have access to some girls only spaces, but for some reason people seem blind to the idea that many boys also benefit from being around other boys. TBH I did not know that the boy scouts were already coed. That's when I should have raised this point, but it goes beyond just scouting anyway.
I'm pretty sure they do. They do outings (weekends, mostly) at least monthly. My son may not be up for the week-long event because he's such a picky eater (something we're working on, slowly). For the weekend events he's able to pack a few sandwiches and avoid having to eat the "camp food".
A laudable goal. Mr R has stories about the "oatmeal" at camp. Ick.
Does this apply to girls-only activities too, or just boys? Like I said, I'm mostly indifferent about scouting specifically, but the overall trajectory of how we're handling these seems perverse and kind of malicious.
no scouts for me in queens. i did the bungalow colony route and caught soupy sales at kutschers. i had a paper route. don’t know anyone in BSA nor do i remember ever seeing a uniform.
I guess Covid had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I've done a lot of resume filtering and interviewing for new engineers, and I don't think I remember anyone listing any high school achievement. I guess occasionally you see someone who just never took some HS academic achievement off, but I never saw an Eagle Scout. It would have been a very slight negative for me, along with any other high school achievement... that was a different life, this is a professional adult job.
To get to Eagle Scout, they have been through a board of review for every rank, which acts much like a job interview and teaches them to interact with adults. They act as the manager for their project. They do the design work, plan for materials and funding, all of it. They manage the labor and aren’t meant to do the brunt of the physical labor (really hardly any).
That and the LDS church stopped requiring all boys to join scouts and were going to adopt their own youth programming. They aren’t forbidden by their church to participate, but the end result is still a big drop in numbers.
It's akin to posting your GPA
And that's why Mr R always listed it on his resume.
I have always had, and still do have, it on mine. Not as like a job line, but down in the 1-2 line "personal interests" section of stuff that is almost always what people want to talk about at the start and end of an interview. It's like Eagle Scout, pickup basketball, fantasy football, cooking for others...I think I have a couple others I keep locked and loaded depending on my sense of a company or interviewer's culture, but the number of times I have been interviewing someone or they have been interviewing me and started with "saw you're an eagle scout, that's awesome, me too..." and it is an immediately positive start is not close to zero.
Kind of where I’d be at. Had a person in their mid 30s with “captain of their college soccer team” on their resume. Felt like an Uncle Rico moment.
That’s fair. I would hope at that age it would fit under interests and they’d possibly be a volunteer leader in their child’s pack or troop.
unless it's Tick doing the interviewing
At what point did we start putting interests on a resume?
As someone doing the interview I always looked for that kind of stuff. Most of my questions centered more around personality, likes, dislikes with respect to life and a job environment. In most cases I can teach the particulars of the job to whoever I am hiring.....what I can't teach is personality and how to get along with people. I wanted to bring people in that would fit into my teams environment because that was the most important thing to me. You bring a cancer in and everything goes to hell. I bring in someone that can get along with the group and can learn then I have someone that everyone is willing to help and support and be a part of what we are trying to do.
What if a candidate says no?
Sure but isn't that what the interview is for? Just because I like golf and no one in your group does, doesn't mean I won't be a good fit. Maybe out of college I had it on there but it's not been on any of my resume and I seem to recall specifically being told to not do that. Of course I've been at the same place for 15 years so shrug
You're assuming everyone gets an interview.
Sifting through resumes is an absolute crap shoot. I wanted a concise (1 page) highlight of things. Not a lot of explaining more top level bullets. I also liked seeing some personal interest stuff. While you being a golfer and me not won't hurt you it is good to know you have other interests.
Right so why get dinged if my interest "of hookers and blow" don't match the interviewers interests....
