Juggling Work/Career with Officiating

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by coach41

Hi All,

Been a while, but I am back and reading the message board. Just a couple of things I am curious about that I hope some people can offer some thoughts on:

A.
How do you guys juggle your regular jobs (if you have a traditional 9 to 5 job) with your officiating?

I do not have that kind of job so I cannot comment directly to that kind of concern. I also have only had one type of job that affected my officiating and I eventually found another profession. I did not leave that job just because of my officiating, but I was not happy with what the job offered. I have not worked for a specific boss since.

Originally Posted by coach41

B.
Do some of you have to leave work early sometimes to officiate? If you have a boss that you work under, how do they usually feel about this?

I do have to adjust my schedule. But that is not a major concern. When you work mostly for yourself, it is easy to schedule around my basketball schedule. For the most part I only work one game that is on the regular work day for. The other games are on the weekend (Friday and Saturday). In many cases I can conduct business on those weekends and do things to compensate for the times I have to take off.

Then again I am in a performance based profession. I get out of it what I put into it. And yes during those days I am not working, I put in more time when so I can leave during the times I am working games.

Peace