Real-Life Decision Making
You are a sport manager. You are currently representing a well-known football team in the U.S. You have received an incredible job offer from a swim team in Australia. You have played both sports in the past, but football is definitely your favorite.
Sue Coyler is executive director of a sports society. "Sports managers often come from the specific sport, with a strong background as a player of that sport," she says.
During high school and university, you played for the school's football teams as a running back. You did a lot of swimming both as a competitor and for pure enjoyment, but you felt you didn't do as well there as you did in football.
You have had a lot of training as a sports manager. You did your first two years towards a bachelor's degree at a university in the U.S. You finished up your last two years of studies in Australia.
"Sports manager as a career is a relatively new career choice for Australians, in the sense that it was only in the 1990s that formal dedicated university courses were created in sport management," says Coyler. "It was probably about the 1980s that professionalization of sport management became evident."
You chose to do your schooling in two different countries to make yourself more attractive to the international market. This seems to have worked well for you.
The swim team will pay you more. Plus, you would get to move back to Australia. You have many friends there that you would love to be close to again.
However, you also love the team and the town you are currently working for and living in. Football is definitely more of a passion for you. You know the game so well.
What do you do?