Oct 2016 – Sept 2017 Hours Tally

In a continuance from my earlier October to May 2017 Hours Tally post from earlier this year, here’s the FINAL numbers for the 2016-2017 year (Oct 1, 2016 – Sept 30, 2017).   As I’ve done in past posts, I calculated time based on these categories, which was the same as last year, except I included a late arriving National Delegate category:

• Troop
  • Trips, Events, Cookie Booths
  • Paperwork and Planning
  • Meetings
• Service Unit
• Delegate (SU)
• National Delegate
• City Slickers (our service unit’s summer camp)
• Other (Scout Sunday related and random meetings)

This does not include time spent writing this blog or doing any research for whatever it was I was working on at the time.  I don’t even want to know how much time I put toward the whole membership dues topic and the Convention Chat Facebook group from June to the National Convention.  Little did I know what the future would hold because of just one post.  This number also doesn’t include time spent running errands or conversations I’ve had that are Girl Scout related.  So without further ado… the 2016-2017 final number!

Compared to last year’s (2015-16) 600 hours, it looks like I took a break.  Last year involved our Juniors earning the Bronze Award, so that added a whole bunch of time as you can imagine.  This year didn’t involve as many hours, but it was just as stressful for other reasons.  I’ve pretty much come to accept that every year will involve some sort of stress.

So here’s the breakdown:

And now breaking the Troop category down further:

Of the 294.67 hours I spent on Troop activities, 48% of that was spent on Paperwork and Planning, 36% for Trips, Events, and Cookie Booths, and 16% for Meetings.  Yes, I am a total nerd, but I was curious as to how it broke out within the Troop category.

It looks like I spent very little time as a National Delegate, but 1)  I didn’t become one until early August and 2)  I was already very familiar with the proposals because of the blog posts I had written by that point.

I know I’ve missed many hours that should of been counted because I was not quite as OCD as I was last year.  Five hundred hours is still a lot.  Who knows what this year will bring, especially since I’m now leading both a Brownie AND a Cadette level!  But at least I’m not running cookies!