What I Learned At Camp

[stripes]

Originally posted by rainmaker
Okay time for the annual introspective wallow...

3. You don't have to like someone to admire their work. I won't go into details, except to say that there was one guy at camp who really surprised me, pleasantly. I still don't like him, though.

This is true. To really progress, we must be willing to learn from anyone--and we can learn from anyone.

4. Age-ism is going to be an issue for me. I'm going to have to work twice as hard as a younger woman would to get very far out of high school. But being female, and older is only two strikes against me, not three, so I'm not "out" yet!!

Age may work against you, but being female should not. Women have lots of opportunities that males do not. Simply put, there are not enough high quality female officials. Every quality female official I know has had opportunities to advance much faster than quality male officials. This isn't good or bad, but it is the way things happen now.

6. You can teach an old dog new tricks!!

Thank goodness!!!

[Edited by stripes on Jun 10th, 2002 at 01:06 PM]