Working in Parks and Recreation (Careers in Your Community)

by: Carol Hand (Author)

Publisher: Rosen Young Adult

Publication Date: 2018/12/30

Language: English

Print Length: 80 pages

ISBN-10: 1499467397

ISBN-13: 9781499467390

Book Description

Working outdoors, getting exercise, playing games, and serving your community, all while eaing a salary, what could be better? This comprehensive guide to the field of parks and recreation prepares readers for three individual career paths:recreation worker, park maintenance worker, and park ranger. It offers several day-in-the-life stories from these careers, stressing the great variation of jobs available in this career and the range of education, from high school diploma to graduate degrees, required for different jobs. Readers can also lea about education, job-hunting, and advancement, and a few part-time jobs that can help them break into the field.

About the Author

Working outdoors, getting exercise, playing games, and serving your community, all while eaing a salary, what could be better? This comprehensive guide to the field of parks and recreation prepares readers for three individual career paths:recreation worker, park maintenance worker, and park ranger. It offers several day-in-the-life stories from these careers, stressing the great variation of jobs available in this career and the range of education, from high school diploma to graduate degrees, required for different jobs. Readers can also lea about education, job-hunting, and advancement, and a few part-time jobs that can help them break into the field.