I know of at least 3 people I went to high school with who are now working as youth or music pastors in some capacity. What is significant is that in high school many times they were unkind to many people. At least that’s how I see it. I just find it halfway amusing that those who seemed so arrogant at times in high school are now in charge of building others up. Do people change? Hopefully they do. I can’t hold people responsible for the way they acted 10 years ago. Maybe they’ve learned something about how to treat others.
Youth ministers/pastors are there for building others up. It should be one of their basic instincts. Anyone who is in it for any other reasons are doing it out of shear laziness.