well since we are on the topic of camp and how much they pay their counselors, here is my problem.
I have been working at a certain day camp every summer since I was really young and they love me because I do a good job and not just sit around and do nothing. Every summer they place me with the little kids (2-5years old)because they trust me and I do my job well, (I like to work for my money). So, this summer I havn’t really decided yet if I wanted to work there since I had many other important things to take care of first. A couple of weeks after camp had already started I get a call from them asking me if i could work there. I said okay, without asking for too many details like how much I would get paid since the people who run the camp and my family are friends and i assumed they would pay me decently and I needed the money.
So, on my first day of camp, the camp director (family friend) tells me that the one in charge of camp( not the family “friend”) is going to pay me the same as every other summer but the camp director would try to ask for a little more for me (about $20 extra). Now here is my problem. Every other summer I was underage so I took whatever they gave me which was fine with me. But now that I was of age, how could they pay me the same as when I was 12?!!! I worked my butt off and sweated in the hot sun taking care of snotty little kids with years of experience and never taking a break to sit at the bench and instead im trying to deserve the money that I get paid, but now this summer they want to pay me the same as every other summer?!!!!! (I would caps evertything if I could, since im really upset right now) But that’s not the worst part. About 2 days later I find out that a couselor around my age is getting paid FOUR times as much as me for the same work. I was shocked. I felt like I was taken advantage of and abused all these summers. I try to work hard for my money. But now I feel like all of my summers of hard work have been nothing. I feel like I wasnt noticed except that they “trust” me with the younger kids (for the camps advantage so they wont have to pay much for a real adult/teacher). I feel like just quitting without to much notice and let them deal with the problem of trying to find a new counselor. How could they do this to me? Sorry this was long. What should I do? I need some direction please.