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Originally posted by Brian Watson
I still fail to see why wanting to work more games makes one a bad person. If you do not want to work as many games as possible, that is your choice, I respect that. On the same note, I would hope people would respect those that want to work as many games as possible, and use the tools at their disposal to do so. One common tool is local associations. I do not see where it is an issue for someone to use the association to get as many games as they can. I feel this is why most of us ref, to work games.
I know guys that only do one to two games a week to keep in shape, and I know addicts that do it 7 days a week for most of the year. I would never tell or suggest someone should hang up the whistle, unless they were in it just for money. You do it for thr love of the game, and that love varies, but wanting to work games is not a bad thing. It still shows the fire burns.
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Brian you are missing the point. I do not think anyone has said that getting more games is wrong. All I said and that I read anyone else say was that IAABO or belonging to IAABO is not going to further the number of games that anyone gets. At least in my area that is the case. As I stated before, belonging to any organization does not get you games around here. And belong to IAABO hardly does anything for education or training in my area, let alone not seeing any games from that organization. Most of the assignors that I work with, association or organization affiliations almost have nothing to do with them handing out games.
So if you want to work 8 days a week (Beetles reference), that is your choice. But speaking for myself, I have more than enough games. And because I have more than enough games, joining IAABO really has no purpose to me. I already get education and training from the organizations that I belong. So why would I or anyone else join a group that does not affect our areas.
I think this depends on the area you live and the influence IAABO might have in your territory.
Peace