Where I want to be

As a follow up to my introductory post on why I”m blogging I thought I would write about what my goals are for the future in terms of my career. I have been a huge sports fan for as long as i can remember but the first real memory I have comes from elementary school. As is true for any kid I really didn’t have a great sense of direction, lets be honest I still don’t, but when I was 2 my family moved to Queens, New York. We lived there for three years and all I remembered about that time was that our apartment was close to a baseball stadium. Seeing as the Yankees are really the only New York baseball team that gets talked about I just assumed that it was Yankee Stadium that I lived next to. So for many years I went around telling everyone that I lived 5 minutes from Yankee Stadium and thats why I was a Yankees fan. You can imagine my surprise  when I realized that I had been living a lie all these years and I really should have been a Mets fan because of our closeness to Shea not Yankee Stadium.

My favorite team?

Since that mishap I have found a passion for pro football and basketball and intend to make a career out of this passion. My ultimate goal is to be the community relations director for the Colts. I have followed the team and its success since the arrival of Peyton Manning (I’m one of those people who uses the phrase “we” when talking about the team) This year I actually had the great opportunity to work for the organization as a guest relations staff member and I can say with certainty that it was one of the more memorable jobs I’ve held. There were 19 college students and myself who were responsible for hearing any fan complaints or suggestions during any of the ten preseason and regular season games held at Lucas Oil. Needless to say Lucas Oil and the Colts enjoy a very diverse fan base so each game held its own unique challenges and concerns. In fact I even had to break up a fight at one of the games that happened right in front of our guest relations booth (yes all 5’7″ of me broke up a fight between two grown men). I am returning to this position next season as long as there is no lockout in place (trying to keep from expressing my views on the lockout). I really respect the players of the organization who have created charities to help those in the community and would love to be involved in that process. I believe that your life is measured by the amount of people that you help along the way and I feel that this position would be a great way to positively impact the lives of as many people as possible.

Right now I am networking as much as possible to find a way to break into the sport industry to earn the dream job that I want with the Colts. While it feels like it is slow-moving I do feel like momentum has been on my side in the past few weeks. I’m looking forward to see what the future holds for me and as always if you know someone that could give me some advice I would really appreciate it.  Thats it for today. I feel like I’m getting a handle on this whole blogging thing and keep a look out for a new post coming either tomorrow or Sunday.  Thanks to everyone who made it all the way through those 600 words.

Lev