Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and look forward to it as a new resource. I am currently working on my dental school application and it is pretty vague when coming down to the volunteer and work section. Let me explain my circumstance. I am currently a Skateboarding instructor for two cities in my area at the public skateboarding parks at the community centers. So here is what I am unsure of. I am a employee for the community centers. People pay for private skateboard lessons with me and summer camps and eventually it trickles down to me and I get a percentage. That being said I also have a much larger roll with the community centers involving the skate parks. I have been involved with one of them for about 8-9 years and the other for 6 years. I was part of the group working with the city in getting one of the skate parks built and have spent many hours helping with contest, getting them sponsors for contest, judging contest, and getting pro-skateboarders to do demos as well as performing demo's for schools in relationship to skateboarding and physics, bringing products for give away and charity fund raisers, hooking the kids up with decks and shoes who family cant afford them. None of these activities I am paid for and just for fun and to help out. I enjoy just being there with the kids skating and help keeping them out of trouble like it did for me.
With all this being said I am unsure of how I should present this in my application. I don't have like an hour sheet where every hour has been documented so I am very unsure of how many hours to put. If they want to contact the community centers and the head supervisors will vouch for me. I am not sure of which category to put in either work or volunteer. I really don't make much when doing the lessons . If you guys could give me some input I would greatly appreciate . Maybe if you have experience with the school contacting a place you have volunteered or something of similar circumstances.
With all this being said I am unsure of how I should present this in my application. I don't have like an hour sheet where every hour has been documented so I am very unsure of how many hours to put. If they want to contact the community centers and the head supervisors will vouch for me. I am not sure of which category to put in either work or volunteer. I really don't make much when doing the lessons . If you guys could give me some input I would greatly appreciate . Maybe if you have experience with the school contacting a place you have volunteered or something of similar circumstances.
