Life after college baseball/sports

Most will enter the reality known as Obamaville.Depending on what their degree is in and and the debt they incurred for some it will not be very encouraging. Hopefully we can start to change that this coming November.

The intent is curiosity of where kids landed after college ball, not politics.

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Originally posted by RJM:
The intent is curiosity of where kids landed after college ball, not politics.

So I cant talk about how my 401k went down the tubes when "W" was in office?

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Originally posted by Mizzoubaseball:

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Originally posted by RJM:
The intent is curiosity of where kids landed after college ball, not politics.

So I cant talk about how my 401k went down the tubes when "W" was in office?

Sure, you can . . . if it makes you feel better to blame someone else for your own investment decisions.

swampboy......+1

I may be wrong but it seems like a potentially very good question for a thread is about to take a turn for the worse.

Son is a financial analyst for an international company and doing very well. He just returned from France on a short term business assignment...

His grades and degree got him the job, but its the discipline from baseball that makes him successful...

as to baseball....

His Adult league baseball team (over 25) won the league championship this past summer...

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Originally posted by Swampboy:

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Originally posted by Mizzoubaseball:

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Originally posted by RJM:
The intent is curiosity of where kids landed after college ball, not politics.

So I cant talk about how my 401k went down the tubes when "W" was in office?

Sure, you can . . . if it makes you feel better to blame someone else for your own investment decisions.

It was a joke, sorry. I didnt vote or Barack, but I get tired of all the blame put on the man.

For my son who played ball i would have to say there is NO way he would have gotten a college degree if he didn't play ball. It kept him progressing because he needed credits. Then when his eligibility was used up, he was close enough to go ahead and finish.
That just wouldn't have happened, because he was not a strong student like my 2 daughters who didn't play sports in college.
So the sports didn't aide him in any other way than he got a degree and is now working at a job I'm pretty sure he just couldn't get without it (an HR postition with a company that uses a lot of part timers and temps)

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Originally posted by Mizzoubaseball:

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Originally posted by Swampboy:

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Originally posted by Mizzoubaseball:

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Originally posted by RJM:
The intent is curiosity of where kids landed after college ball, not politics.

So I cant talk about how my 401k went down the tubes when "W" was in office?

Sure, you can . . . if it makes you feel better to blame someone else for your own investment decisions.

It was a joke, sorry. I didnt vote or Barack, but I get tired of all the blame put on the man.

Fair enough. FWIW, I'd have said the same thing if you'd blamed the other guy.

We just returned last week-end from the annual dinner to kick off the baseball season at sons school. Got to see many alumni. They all really miss their time playing baseball- real world not as much fun.

The engineers got jobs immediately and are happily working. All last years seniors are employed. The college hosts a job fair for athletes that is well attended by companies. These companies understand the players may not have had any internships due to playing baseball year round. They are looking for employees that are team players and know how to work
hard.

Now, this was just a small sampling but it was encouraging to see there are jobs out there for new graduates.

I guess you don't have to completely get away from it, even if you are not actively playing like you used to.

My son sees a group of guys that all played HS baseball together. These guys went on and played college ball at different places (Division 1 and 2 schools) and most played at least some pro ball both in the MLB system and Independent leagues.

They all stayed close and when their active playing days ended they got together and started doing some teaching. These guys knew each other for years, were friends forever and it makes for some great chemistry between them when they instruct. These guys all have 'real' jobs but they also take the time in the evenings and weekends to pass on what they learned

Son was not a draft prospect out of HS and sustained a soft tissue injury in a fender bender, before his college junior year that sort of started the beginning of the end of baseball for him.

His college career was successful by most measures with two all conference awards and two D1 regional appearances. He switched majors after his Jr. year to Finance, with an eye toward a banking career and an MBA in FIN.

He then got a summer job in '09 at a local community bank as a credit analyst. Three years later he is still there managing and growing a $20 million commercial loan portfolio...with his MBA.

He got the job indirectly because he was a well-known local player, but is still there because of his work in school, people skills and math chops.

He's got a good following as a pitching instructor with two students in last year's LLWS.

Baseball gave him a boat load of confidence, enabling him to do what he does now, imo. Yes, there is life after baseball.

Thank you for the opportunity to brag....

My guy finished baseball in the spring of '10. He graduated after the following fall semester. He coached an elite prep schools baseball team last spring and then enrolled in the graduate school of business at the University of Texas.

He has been interviewing for summer internships for the first time. His resume is full of Collegiate Summer baseball and his experience playing baseball in college.

He told me about one interview that he recently had where spent about 5 minutes talking about a home run he hit against Notre Dame that left the AA stadium. He is waiting to hear about the internship.

He is learning to speak of his baseball experience in terms of commitment, team work, time management and hard work (throw in a little pride).