So its been 12 months since I lost my job I’d had for 13 years!! Since then I’ve been trying to make it as a football coach & I’ve not done too bad to be honest. I’m head coach for a grassroots club, that means coaching 5 teams for mid-week training (u9/11/12/13/15’s) and help coach u9’s on a Saturday and my lads team (voluntary) on a Sunday. Also after school clubs and ppa work and I run the holiday camps for my local club. Wow actually typing that makes me realise how many children I actually deal with on a weekly basis…
That now means I’m bagging 16+ hours a week coaching experience and really toning my coaching expertise and philosophy. It’s not come easy as it was a few hours here and there at 1st but its come eventually just had show how flexible I was and be a ‘yes i a can’ man.
So anybody out there looking to start coaching for a living; any job in coaching is hard to find, full-time jobs are like rocking horse poop, it’s not a 9 to 5 job (the hours are all over the place) but persistence pays off, so keep going it’ll come eventually.
On a personal note I want to thank my family for all their support, the missus for her loving patient support and pushing me. Lastly little man because if he’d not wanted to play footy for a team 5 years ago I wouldn’t be a coach.
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