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Originally posted by Whowefoolin
How faithful do you stay to your first association? They give you your first asignments. They teach you what you know today. However, the association is not moving in the same direction as you want to go.
They are staying at the same level as they have always advertised, you want to move up...but they need you for numbers.
Any advise? Anyone been put in this situation? Anyone with the same association they originally started with?
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Never turn your back on the association that gave you your start. You might work a little less for them, and you can join other groups to advance your career. But don't walk away never to return.
The future of your original association, and the future of officiating in your area, needs you to go back and help.
I am still an active participant in my first association. Although I've grown well beyond the Jr. Highs and Little Leagues that association assigns, I still work a few games a year, and I still run clinics and train young umpires.
There is nothing so unappreciative as an umpire who just uses an association as a stepping stone. Associations are brotherhoods. Don't turn your back on your brothers.