Waste too much time - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

2.0
Feb 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you need experience in a classroom or experience working with children this is a good way to get your feet wet. Depending on where you serve, you will be in a classroom with a partner teacher so that can help you decide on a teaching career or not.

Cons

Wastes a lot of time. They try to do so much with their corps members within a single year. They say it's for our benefit, but it's not. We don't figure out what we're really doing throughout our service year until mid November (even though we have a 2 week basic academy training in the beginning).

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5.0
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Pros

Well-organized/structured Transportation, healthcare, and AmeriCorps benefits Lots of teambuilding

Cons

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3.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

connecting with the students will be one of the most rewarding takeways.

Cons

- lack of admin initiative, at times it feels we are being criticized for our job when we get paid crumbs (11$ and hour after tax, california).

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