In 2008, I took 120 people to Burning Man.
I led over a hundred people to the Black Rock Desert, where our camp hosted daily events, had daily meals for our campers, and got a Green rating for Leave No Trace. We had to submit a significant application and fee to be a recognized camp — and be assigned an address — by the Burning Man Organization. We kept a geodesic half-dome, a desert-ready kitchen and more in storage, which had to be picked up, transported, and assembled. I got event people to run their events, I had a kitchen head, and I had a great driver. And the best Leave No Trace rating shows we cleaned up after ourselves.
I don’t know how that management experience would ever fit on a resume. But it’s something I really did and I learned so much from. I mean… what sounds more like herding cats than taking hippies to Burning Man?
