It is helpful to note that very similar recreation-related career opportunities and skillsets quite often appear in several categories.

For example, a recreation program director could work for a city parks and recreation department (public/government), a youth serving agency like the YMCA (nonprofit), or a resort (private/commercial).

This can be make it a little difficult at times to sort career options simply by a job title. As a starting point for organizing career opportunities on this website, we have used some of the categories suggested by Schwab et al (2014) in A career with meaning: Recreation, Parks, Sport Management, Hospitality, and Tourism (2nd ed.).

City Recreation and Parks Department

County Recreation and Parks Department

Park Districts

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Scouts

Big Brothers/Big Sisters

4-H

YMCA

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