I will say this RR, I was arrogant to say I can teach these young some life lessons. I was thinking of some specific examples of guys I've worked with with but most young guys I work with are doing their best with what they have been given
I try to teach the D&D about real hip hop like Tribe called Quest Souls of Mischief unlike these lazy kids we ain't half stepping
I'm getting there. I'll never run another half marathon. But I recently played 2 18 hole rounds of golf with no pain for the first time in years.
One of my favorite (of many) jobs I had was being a tutor/supervisor to NCAA athletes (mostly football and men's basketball players). I had to give it up to focus on class, but it was super rewarding watching them grow as people and students and have our relationship grow. My worst student funny enough was a white 3rd string O lineman from rural Alabama. I could kind of tell he thought he was hot ****...Im not sure why he didnt transfer to an easier school where he could start. People give student athletes **** but theyre basically working full time while going to school while earning the college a lot of money. A lot of them come from shitty HS (or in my case, a lot had learning disabilites). Thats a lot to ask of a 19-20 year old kid. There's a lot of value and benefit for both parties when you work with young people.
Awesome! I lived on the 3rd floor of Jester dorm my freshman year at UT (93-94), a bunch of the football guys lived on the same floor in the other wing, so we'd run into each other in the lobby/hall/elevator. Got to know a bunch of them and they started asking when I was studying in the studyhall on that floor...eventually it just became an informal tutoring session. It was pretty helpful to me, just by when they thought they were done, they'd say "go ahead, teach" and I'd read over/talk through my notes out loud, was good for the retention and all.
So funny enough they mostly hire these like really maternal, rural, young white women. This is before I came out, but that will never be me lol. My boss was like "some might respond better to a like stern frat boy (who also lived in a black neighborhood for a few years). They loved me lol. Id self denigrate a little bit, check in occasionally...but a lot of them liked that I didn't coddle them. I treated them like adults and I'd tell them "look man I get paid whether you do your work or not; but you're hurting yourself by not doing it, and your coaches do read what I report."
