I'm 19 currently in the California Conservation Corps which is a youth development program that allows people from 18-25 to go out and get work experience with stuff like building trails, eradicating invasive species or building salmon habitats. The program lasts a year unless you decide to promote, promoting will extend you another year. To promote you have to go to what the program calls Leadership Training, which I'm currently attending. Most of the other people in this class essentially had to beg their bosses to get sent here, my boss said " hey tomorrow you are driving to Stockton for some training, be there by 3:00 PM". So I dont have much of a choice being here and the topics we are discussing are not always helpful and seem to perpetuate only one type of leading/mentoring style.

So my question is, should I feel like an asshole for not wanting to go through this "training" even though for some people this training is extremely hard to get into? Am I being conceited?