Lifetime Recreation: Week 13 Job Qualification

Ideal Job: Recreational Therapist 

My ideal dream job is to be a recreational therapist. A recreational therapist works with people who have disabilities or illnesses and makes recreational activities  adaptable for them. A RT  has many duties including planning events for all ages and for all disabilities. It takes extensive planning of activities to ensure that all can participate in some way. These activities can be based on a variety of events such as hiking, skiing, white-water rafting, dance, sports, arts and crafts.

How being a Program Assistant applies to this position:

As a Lifetime Recreation Program Assistant, it was mandatory to plan variety of recreational activities that engaged college students.This required daily, weekly, and monthly updates on the status of the Living-Learning Community and how the students were being involved in recreation. The activities were based on ideal participation that the students could still be challenged but still able to enjoy themselves and to learn about themselves.