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I was just wondering if any of you guys were eagle scouts and if it's helped you along in life.
I'm young - 15, and my mom's really pushing me to get it. One of her ways is no drivers liscense until i'm pretty much there. :mad:
Just wanted to know if it was really worth my time.. :chick:
Was never in scouts, but in my opinion, any activity that gets you connections with new friends, and teaches you survival and social skills is a good thing. even if you never need them, you are learning discipline and perseverence, and those translate very well through life, regardless of what you apply them on.
My only fear is that you describe your mother as pushing you. If you really dont want to go, you are going to come out of it with much less of a benefit and will probably learn far less, because its not something you really want to learn. Talk it out with her, but first make sure you know what all there is to do in the scouts, see for sure if there is something that interests you and if any of your friends are going in, and furthermore, have any of your friends already gone through there, and what did they think? That can help you decide if the eagle scouts are really something you feel like investing your time into, and then you can make an informed decision.
Do it.
At the very least it'll teach you some responsibility.
Get it over with if just to put it on a resume, because some people get off on those sorts of things.
I've met Eagle Scouts who were top class men, and I've met some I wouldn't waste time talking to.
And, hell, just do it to get the damn license. No sense in pissing off your mom and not having resume filler at the same time.
That being said I got my Arrow of Light and was about to move up to Boy Scouts when I realized how much I hated the rest of my troop. So I quit.
your mother is a retarded bitchQuote:
Originally Posted by renewed
Almost an Eagle Scout, eh?
While I'm not sure of your long-range plan for the future, but depending on what you want to do later in life, it might be to your advantage to become an Eagle Scout. What I'm really getting at is that if you decide to pursue a career in the military or law enforcement fields, you'd already be ahead of the game. (I think you'd need to be an Explorer to to get an edge for Law Enforcement).
Even if neither of these are correct, to get your license for doing something as 'simple' as community service and personal (and professional) improvement seems like a very worthwile trade-off. I wish I had it that easy when I was 15.
I say go for it, just for the experience and responsibility that will gain from it.
I myself would have liked to reached Eagle Scout, but my troop was terribly operated by a family that always promoted the sons that didn't do shit. I never got past Webelos + Arrow of Light and it was soon disintegrated. The camps were keen though.
just quit. I was a boy scout and it sucked, moved up to the eagle scouts and it sucked even more so finally my parents let me quit. You're too old for that crap. I seriously doubt you'd learn anything very usefull anyway, all the kids that are still in there are either sheltered religious freaks or just forced to be there because their parents are sheltered religious freaks.
If you want discipline, just go in a martial art. Not because it's cooler but in the end, you could kill a bear in the woods instead of calling for help with stupid smoke screens.
Yeah, i agree with everything here, Why not?, my parents are crazy, and i can't kill a bear :cry:
But i am quite close and i think i might as well finish it up while i have the chance, and it just might get my mother off my back.
Thanks guys. :chick:
I was a boy scout and it made the man I was today. Just kidding, I had a bad experience with the scouts. The leader that said we couldn't shower with our swimsuits on can kiss my ass. It's a Offical Boy Scout policy.
Glad that you're comitted to going thru with being an Eagle Scout and hope you had a better experience than I did.
Korian go rent Shaft. The orginal one. And rent Dirty Hairy. Watch them, and from now on, don't post a damn thing that those two characters wouldn't say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
I know one person who made it to Eagle. The rest of us dropped that shit when we were 10.
Back when i was like 12, i went to this boy scouts meeting at school because i was interesting in signing up. i filled out a check-in sheet thing with my name and adress, and then decided after the meeting that i didnt want to do it.
like 2 weeks later i start getting this newsletter from them.
and they only stopped coming about 2 years ago.
i got phone calls for a few years, too. i kept asking them to take me off their list, but those bastards never did.
strange people, them boyscouts.
I was a Boy Scout for a while. I quit because it was the most mind-numbingly boring thing ever. I would have quit for other reasons even if it had been interesting... but it wasn't, so there you go.