My ideal job that I dream and imagine myself doing is being a coach of a top tier lacrosse team. For the past two years I have helped out with coaching my club team back home. Though it is just a summer thing I want the opportunity to advance that and coach a college team that is successful. It would be my ideal job because I love lacrosse and I feel that in your ideal job you should do something in which you enjoy and love doing. I would love a top tier team because success at the highest level would be the greatest achievement. I live for the competition, commradority, challenges, and the highs and lows which come with playing the sport of lacrosse. Since my collegiate career is halfway done I do not know what I am going to do without playing lacrosse. Coaching would be the best resolution to maintain being part of a team and to stay within the sport.
I feel that being a coach is part of my American dream because it is something that I have longed to do and worked hard to understand the game of lacrosse. It also is more than just teaching about lacrosse. The lessons that have been instilled in me through lacrosse will also stay with me. My coaches have always taught me a lot about life and I hope to do the same if I am able to coach. The lessons that have been instilled in me through lacrosse will also stay with me.
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I like how your ideal job does not say anything about money. Most people developed their ideal jobs around how much money they're hoping to make. Your job only reflect what you enjoy doing. Part of the decision to be a coach includes what you have experienced from your coach in the past.
What does your ideal job say about the universal idea of the American dream? Do you think there are reasons which others can relate to you with?
Kyle, can really relate to your dream of being a lacrosse coach. I too coach lots of kids over the summer and I love the bonds and friendships that can be made through the game. I feel that it's an all around rewarding experience, especially at the higher levels. I also like that you want to continue doing something that you love. Millions of people all around the world are doing jobs just to get by, when they really want something else in life. With so much time being dedicated to lacrosse, maybe you want to think about how your family will adjust with you being away from home for long periods of time.
Kyle,
I was so happy to read your blog tonight. Not that you need my support to encourage you to pursue your dream, but I'm going to give it to you. I had the distinct privilege and honor to run a high school lacrosse program with two of my best friends in Mahtomedi, MN, which is about ten miles northeast of St. Paul. While I worked with and oversaw all three of our teams, I most enjoyed working with the varsity kids, especially as the head coach. The season is under way and I miss my kids every day - I have seniors graduating this year that I starting coaching on the JV when they were just in the 8th grade. Coaching lacrosse for the last four years has been the most unbelievably rewarding experience of my entire life. It has taught me lessons and instilled values that are a part of my daily life. You hinted at the relationships and bonds that come from working with kids and you couldn't be more right. While I have coached in championship games and all-star games, as well as on the Elite Team, the thing that I carry with me are the bonds, the friendships that I have made with my players. It is a special relationship that can never be taken away or even properly explained. The relationship between a player and a coach is something far larger than an articulate arrangement of words that form a sentence. Keep working throughout the summers to prepare yourself for your future. After you finish school, get a job, any job, working with kids at a high level. You won't regret it for a second. It will be your first job in a long career that will bring you wins and losses as well as championship celebrations and consolation games. But most of all, it will be a revolving door of wonderful people that will shape and define your life.
I'm kind of surprised that your dream is to become a lacrosse coach as opposed to like actually playing it for as long as you can. I guess that really shows how much you enjoy the sport: you enjoy it so much that you just want to be involved with it somehow. Would you consider coaching younger lacrosse players so that they can develop their skills better and make it on some of those tier teams or would you just prefer to stick with coaching those players who have already established such skills?
I completely agree with you here Kyle. I would have to really enjoy my work if I were to get anything out of life. In turn, a lot of people go for a job with high pay versus self satisfaction. I'm sure that lots of people are working for the money versus if they enjoy it. It's a decision that were all going to have to make sooner or later.
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