Personal Narrative: A Career As A Sports Agent

As a little girl the things i wanted most in my life were to become the first female in the NBA, marry Morris Chestnut, and to make enough money to buy my mother all the houses we ever got evicted from and all the companies that ever fired her. Since I now know i will never be in the NBA, and I’ve probably sent Morris enough fan mail since the third grade to obtain a restraining order, I've decided to help others achieve their sports dreams while still managing to make my last dream come true. Being a sports agent is something I've thought long and hard about. Not only will I be holding the wellbeing of my family in my hands but also the wellbeing of the athletes that spend countless amounts of their time on the court, in the weight room, …show more content…
I figured if i was going to be negotiating larges amounts of money i needed to know how to handle and keep my business afloat. I decided the first class i was going to take was accounting. Most students would have signed up for business management, but i thought in a different direction and decided that I would learn to work with the books before the people. As the course took off i realized that not only starting a business it tough but keeping it open is even more difficult. My lessons started off with posting and journalizing simple transactions that all businesses eventually go though. But as the year went on I learned how to read sales, see trends in consumers, and how to effectively use financial management to grow sales and make a profit. I knew eventually i would have to put the calculator down, exit excel and and show my charm. So i took a another course that would be very effective in my career. I took a psychology and sociology to get the client interaction down. I learned about people's actions and reactions and trends in certain areas of society. This course helped me realized that to make a person's dreams come true you have to understand the person and what they come from. I know that not everyone is not given the same opportunities and are made up of different classes. But we live in America and exogamy does not apply. I will be …show more content…
Marketing will help me see trends in consumers and how to get my clients more publicity and allow them more opportunities. Sports management will allow me to learn more about recruitment, scheduling and management, public relations, legal aspects of sports, and applicable health and safety standards. I want to pursue pre-law to be able to know what I can and cannot do and how to go over contracts and get my athletes the best