Stuck in a Rut? Not Sure What Career Choices to Make? Listen in. - a podcast by Brian Clapp - Work in Sports

Hi everybody I’m Brian Clapp, Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast..I want to say a quick thank you to all of the people who have been coming to our Facebook LIVE sessions every Thursday night at 7:30 EST from the Work in Sports facebook page. The sessions have been so much fun, I start out with a theme something I want to teach, and then open it up for audience questions.Last week the subject was the 5 people you need in your professional network – which sparked a lot of great conversation. If you missed the live you can check out the replay, either on the Work in Sports Facebook page, or on our blog WorkinSports.com/blog. If you have questions about your career, our facebook live sessions are just another way we are trying to help you!At WorkinSports.com we have over 10,000 available sports jobs all across the nation…but we also provide so many free tools to help you be the best you. Our Facebook Live sessions, this podcast, tons of articles and videos… we’re working hard for you.Friendly reminder that if you are a student, we have a pretty incredible deal for you. 6 month membership, full access to all of our sports jobs, for just $30. That’s pretty amazing $5 month for access to thousands of jobs across the country from employers big and small.Visit WorkinSports.com/students to sign up!Now let’s get into today’s fan question…I’m actually stealing this from a classroom session I did last week at Lindenwood University. Thanks to Dr. Daniel Sweeney for inviting me into their classroom for a live QA session.This was the hardest question I got all day. I’m paraphrasing since I didn’t write it down in the moment.“I’m a junior and for the last three years I’ve been trying to find out what interests me and what I want to do. I took this Intro to sports management course hoping this could be it, but I don’t think it is. I feel lost. Do you have any advice for me?”I’d like to add in, I was at my local coffee shop on Saturday morning and since I frequent the place I know most of the staff. One of the women working, said almost the exact same thing to me as the student above. I feel lost, I don’t know what I want to do with my life… and she looked to the heavens as if someone in the attic was going to scream down – “you should be an accountant!”The point of all this is simple – so many people feel lost when trying to define their career and give it a label. Even if you’ve deduced you want to work in sports, which I fully endorse, you might have no clue what you want to do inside of the vast sports industry.Just to set reasonable expectations here, I will not be able to tell you exactly what you should do with your life. BUT, I think in this conversation I can help give you some steps to take, and take some of the pressure off of you. So let’s talk about it, and all this applies to anyone, not just sports people.1: Your career is not a trap.I find the biggest problem facing people in the career decision making process is not excitement or anticipation of making a great choice, but rather fear of making the wrong choice.The people that struggle to commit have it their head that a wrong decision will doom them to an unhappy and unfulfilled life.Take a deep breath people. This pressure you are putting on yourself is NOT helping you.Here are the facts, that person next to you who says they know exactly what they want to do with their...

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