What, Exactly, Do I Do?
by Bob Keast
To an outsider, managing a resort, marina, campground and mobile home park looks marvelous and exciting and you have a beautiful place to work, lots of expensive boats to look at and such nice customers who just want to have fun and fish.  So how do I explain that what I do is actually work?
When anyone asks what I do, I tell him or her the following:
  • I am a real estate developer, financial planner, accountant, and bill collector and sometimes I have to evict.
  • I am a government affairs specialist and environmental regulations expert. I answer to 33 branches of State, Federal and Local Government.
  • I am the tour guide, director and local historian.
  • I am the boat show set up guy, clean up and salesman.
  • I am a lobbyist, ambassador of good will and a diplomat.
  • From time to time I have been an architect, builder, contractor, demolitions expert, plumber, designer, electrician, forester, carpenter and garbage hauler.
  • My customers assume I am a weather forecaster and meteorologist so I got a weather radar satellite and do the weather on the local radio station daily from 8 to 8:30 am daily.
  • I am a party planner and take reservations. I am the food and beverage consultant, host, and head of the clean-up crew. I clean the bathrooms and take out the garbage.
  • I am the landscape designer and architect, grounds keeper, environmentalist and chief of the weeds, pest and bird control.
  • I am the marketing manager and oversee promotions and advertising.
  • I hire and then fire the dead beats who didn't want to work and be a team player.
  • I am a restaurateur, boat salesman, merchandiser and retailer.
  • I am the safety inspector, fire chief, rescue expert and lifeguard, dock master, the captain, and the crew.
  • I am a giver, a helper, teacher and a donator.
  • And I am a joiner and a people person.