valuable?

1. What has attracted you to this job opportunity and why do you think you’ll be a valuable member of the Lair staff this summer?

I have been a Lair camper from birth, and my Grandparents have been going pretty much since it was started, so we have a big family tradition surrounding the Lair. We’re the kind of campers in which every member of our huge family knows all the traditions (sometimes better than the staffers themselves), who spend their year waiting for the Sunday bbq, and who are shocked every time anything changes. When I was a kid my answer to ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ was always a Lair staffer or a forest ranger so that I could live up at the Lair the whole time.
Aside from my enthusiasm for the Lair, I was attracted to the job for the physicality of the role, the people relations involved and the shows. I really like the mix of capacities involved, and feel that they would suit me as I have always split my life into a multitude of contrasting activities. I’m used to living in close proximity to others not only from university life, but also from a trip I took last summer on a Green Tortoise bus, where all 35 or so of us slept on the big bed which covered the bus’s insides; cooked and ate together and spent every waking minute as a group.
I think I’ll be a valuable member of the Lair staff this summer because I cannot imagine anyone who is more enthusiastic, more excited or more entrenched in Lair tradition than I am. As I have two younger sisters (ages 7 and 14), I’m used to being a role model for children, and also working with and looking after them.