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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Counselors at sleep away camp make very little money.  It is not a job you take to earn lots of cash.  It's because you love kids and the outdoors and the camp.  I went away to the same camp for a month every summer until I was aged out of being a camper.  I lived it and would have liked being a couselor but I had to make my extra spending money for college in the summer.  It was the one thing my parents did not pay for and an overnight counselor's salary would have lasted about half a semester.  I got office jobs and waitressing jobs and lived at home (free room and board and laundry there too!).

I am OP and this was why I was thinking of tipping my kids' cabin counselor.  It is not an easy job, especially not easy to stay nice and cheerful and enthusiastic when you have a bunch of kids to make sure shower and brush their teeth every day, go to sleep at lights out, write updates to parents, and make clean the cabin every morning.  Then you still have to do your activity and supervise meals too with only one day off a week.  Heck, residential camps are fairly pricey (most well over $1,000 per month) so I thought the least I could do was thank my kids awesome, college-aged counselors by giving them a few bucks.[/quote]

This is 11:55.  Please do so.   I think I made $500-600 for the entire summer (room and board of course) but I loved working at the camp and the tips really helped out as far as summer earnings went.   [/quote]

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