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Originally posted by JRutledge
1. If you want to advance, treat officiating as a business, not just a vocation.
2. The best officials does not just know the rules, they know how to apply them.
3. Officiating is more than blowing a whistle.
4. Look the part and you will be precieved that way.
5. People skills is probably the most important attribute in officiating.
Peace
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Uhhm, it's
avocation. A
vocation is your occupation. An avocation is what you do apart from your occupation - hobby, part time business, pastime, etc. While I would agree that at some point you need to treat it as a business, I would strongly disagree that it's ever more than an avocation for 99.999999% of us who do it. Also, (and I hesitate to ask) how can you know how to apply something without knowing it? Kinda like saying a doctor doesn't have to know medicine, he just needs to know how to apply it. (And please, please don't ask me if basketball refereeing concerns life & death, OK?)