What did you do at work today?

[mooby]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Why would you need to go back to school? What's your current skillet? This is such a crazy change for me. I'm like Marty Schottenheimer agreeing to coach a UFL team. But it's exciting.

Well actually I use a griddle instead of a skillet, since the only thing I really use it for is to make eggs in the morning. But that's beside the point.

As far as sports/media behind-the-scenes jobs go, I know not much if anything. I took sports marketing and advanced sports marketing back in high school, but all we really focused on was the marketing aspect of it, i.e. learning about ways to attract new customers, focusing on your target market, etc. Real basic stuff. I'm pretty much assuming from this point if you would like to get a job working with a professional sports team, or working in the media aspect of sports coverage, you'd need to have a college degree of some sorts. I think most professional sports teams have basic marketing departments, sales departments, finance departments, etc. and they all probably hire interns with a degree, or interns who are working towards a degree.

And I'm sure media is the same way. Most people who work behind the scenes on radio or tv went to school and got a job as an intern, and that's how they got started out in the business. And the ones that work the technical side of it probably received training at a trade school. But as of right now, I really can't think of any position where they would hire someone with no experience and only a high school education. And honestly I'm not even sure where my skillset is, idl sales positions, and technical aspects, like computer programming/etc. aren't my thing either. I'm sure I have a niche somewhere, but I have yet to find it. Most of my knowledge comes from the classes I took back in high school .

Originally Posted by Dirtbag

There's a company here in Atlanta that has advertised "Sports Marketing" for kids out of college. What they didn't tell you in the interview was they drop you off at some neighborhood far away from your home and have you go door to door selling coupons they may or may not involve the Atlanta Falcons and your pay is 100% commission. Lucky for me the internet reviews flag such jobs for you.

I've seen ads similar to those, and actually went and interviewed and got offered a position. Basically the ad looks similar to this, only it mentions professional sports teams in some capacity, so you go to their interview in Tysons Corner (and get pulled over for speeding on the way there ), they tell you you'd be working in Home Depot trying to sell roofing estimates, and you get paid according to how many estimates you sign people up for, and you don't get paid if they cancel the estimate for any reason. And maybe down the line if you do good selling estimates at Home Depot, then they give you the opportunity to sell something sports related at a convention or w/e.