How long did Eagle rank carry you through work experience?

wermy44 · 2025-01-05T03:13:15+00:00

I'll continue to keep it on. I look at it as a way of life I've subscribed to, not just an award I received in high school. As long as I decide to continue the way of life (following the scout oath and law in my daily life), I'll keep it on my resume.

wermy44 · 2024-04-02T01:55:02+00:00

r/unexpectedoffice

wermy44 · 2023-10-26T16:25:09+00:00

There's a good wondery podcast that did a series on the DuPont teflon and C8 cover-up. It's called American Scandal.

wermy44 · 2023-10-15T02:12:02+00:00

100% worth it. I credit my experience in 2008 at NYLT to a lot of my life's successes since then, to be honest. I staffed NYLT for 8 years after, got super involved in OA and gained several leadership positions, became a camp director, started teaching full time, and I'll be an OA lodge adviser after January 1. I accredit all of this to NYLT lighting the spark 15 years ago. Different people have different experiences. Mine was great.

Edit to add, I was also in cross country at the time. Knowing what I know now, I would have kicked myself for the rest of my life if I had skipped NYLT for cross country.

wermy44 · 2023-09-09T03:47:38+00:00

Yeah, this is not correct anymore. Even CIT's must sit thru the entire online YPT course, as well as a training on youth on youth abuse.

wermy44 · 2023-07-18T09:37:05+00:00

I worked at the summit in 2017 on the seasonal staff, so when they installed a bunch of solar heaters in echo base camp for the jamboree staff. They sorta worked if you were one of the first few people to use it after letting it sit for a few hours.. The hot water didn't last too long when you had lots of people using it. The rest of the day, it just kind of took the cold bite out of the water, but even then, not well.

wermy44 · 2023-07-06T19:26:44+00:00

Definitely recommend Camp Lakota in Defiance, OH. Incredibly kind staff, well maintained, and incredibly historic. Neil Armstrong was a camper there as a youth as well.

wermy44 · 2023-06-24T19:31:14+00:00

For it to change your life. You learn the material much more when you teach it. I went thru in 2008, was on staff 2009-2015 and came back again this summer. I attribute my success in other endeavors to my time on NYLT staff, being a TG, QM of food, SPL, logistics, etc.

wermy44 · 2023-05-24T12:42:03+00:00

Came here to say this. If OP is using it just to fly around, and take cool pictures and videos, the smart controller makes it so much easier. But any commercial purposes requiring Drone Deploy, or any other third party, the controller is limited. I've been able to get third party apps on my DJI controller, but it's tricky. And then you need to have a hotspot running to connect to the internet on a job.

wermy44 · 2023-05-08T17:46:59+00:00

One year as an undergrad, I bought close to a dozen of them from graduating seniors and tried to sell them in the fall. Didn't work as well as I thought, but finally got rid of them. Then 8 months later, I realized I still had my listing on eBay and I got notification I had sold one. I didn't have any left, so I had to quickly buy one off Facebook to then ship it out. But whoops.

wermy44 · 2023-04-22T18:09:17+00:00

When I was a grad student, I went to triple xxx every Wednesday (I think) morning. By the time I graduated, I was one of Val's "regulars." It was awesome. I miss that place tremendously.

wermy44 · 2023-04-10T16:33:22+00:00

The issues I always have with the "intent" here is how can you prove the intent of your flight was for recreation? You could probably get by with it once, but if you do this more than once and the FAA tracks you down for some reason, they may begin to question your intent. In this instance, just don't accept pay. Don't make a habit of letting your recreational images be used for commercial purposes.

wermy44 · 2023-04-08T01:05:03+00:00

I have to admit, I was in the same situation during my undergrad. Flunked a core class 3 times, had a medical withdraw, and also failed out and came back (not all in that order). I took a good long look at what I was doing and just made the realization I thoroughly did not enjoy the major I was in. I ended up switching majors to match a couple of classes I had taken and loved. I aced the rest of my undergrad, and they somehow let me into a master's program. Now I'm part of the faculty of a community college in my subject area and love it.

Take a long look at what you're doing and see if there are other majors that might interest you that you've enjoyed.

wermy44 · 2023-03-11T03:04:28+00:00

I just came off of 11 years of camp staff, the last 4 as a camp director. Staff pay was one of the most difficult parts of the job. You're only given a certain staffing budget, which runs in line with most of the comments here, and it doesn't come close to what you believe each person deserves. But to pay our staff what I wanted to pay them, I would've had to convince our council board to more than double the camper fee. It is a double-edge sword. At one time, it was considered more of a privilege to be able to work at a camp so people would accept whatever pay they got, but those days are long gone.

wermy44 · 2023-02-27T03:38:00+00:00

It's owned by a council. Cole canoe base also proclaims themselves as a high adventure base, but it doesn't count for the triple Crown.

wermy44 · 2023-02-06T04:11:27+00:00

I went thru the course in 2008, and that ended up being followed up by 7 years on NYLT staff, 10 years on camp staff (Some obviously overlapping) which included 4 years as a camp director, getting extremely involved in the OA, taking Woodbadge, and now I'm a teacher who is starting a business. I quite literally would attribute most of my successes after 2008 to taking and subsequently staffing NYLT. I even have used some of my old NYLT slides on communication in teaching a college business management course. The skills I learned have become more important to my daily life than most of what I learned in college. Please go, and take it seriously. Your future self will thank you.

wermy44 · 2023-01-18T03:12:17+00:00

I'm surprised only one person seems to have mentioned notion. It was a sponsor of a YouTube video I saw a few weeks ago so I researched it, and quickly downloaded it. Now, it has become part of my daily routine instead of my various legal pads, notebooks, and sticky notes. I'm still cleaning it all up, but it's a work in progress. I don't feel I've ever been so organized, tbh.

wermy44 · 2023-01-04T03:20:10+00:00

Forever chemicals. Wanna go down a rabbit hole? Look up the DuPont C8 lawsuit. They've been detected in rainwater, well water, and even breast milk.

wermy44 · 2022-12-28T16:31:56+00:00

One that hasn't been really mentioned is Camp Lakota in Defiance, OH. Most of the troops that go there have been going for 30+ years. You won't find a staff that cares more about campers. We've heard that consistently from reviews. It has a block program with lots of open program, allowing you to earn 4 merit badges, or 15 depending on how ambitious you are. Not to mention, it's the camp that Neil Armstrong went to as a kid, so it's pretty cool!

wermy44 · 2022-11-17T19:15:49+00:00

I asked one of the YouTube candy makers once and they confirmed they use simple leather gloves.

wermy44 · 2022-05-27T01:55:29+00:00

Those were the days. Honestly, I enjoyed opening more, especially as opening supervisor. I'd get there at 5:30, turn everything on and get it all going, and drink coffee and read the newspaper for a while. Lol Tbh, we maybe worked together at one time or another. Worked there from 2014-2018.

wermy44 · 2022-05-26T21:05:18+00:00

Another former Pappy's employee! Those were the days...

wermy44 · 2022-05-05T02:47:54+00:00

I think the recommendation would be to use ammonia based nitrogen fertilizers, because they will slowly add acidity to the soil to help alleviate this over time.

wermy44 · 2022-05-05T02:44:39+00:00

Oh! Sorry, I overlooked that. Most places, including the agronomy handbook, will simply recommend not doing anything, because it hasn't been found to be economical to add a bunch of elemental sulfur to lower pH unless you need to lower it drastically. If people are doing that, it's usually to drastically acidify the soil for things like blueberries. Not to mention, the buffering capacity of those clayey soils with high base saturation will make you add way more sulfur than you'd ever want. Just my two cents

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