Essay About Being A Sports Agent

Since I was a young kid in elementary school I have been tasked to answer the hard and almost unanswerable question of, what I want to be when I grow up. As a young kid you might answer astronaut or a NASCAR driver. Which was what everyone wanted to be growing up but me I knew I wanted to be something in sports. I have had a love for sports since I could remember, and over the years that has not changed. Now as a nineteen year old kid or young adult I have started to narrow down on the answer to that question that I’ve been asked for some many years now. I want to be a sports agent, it’s a perfect fit for me. As a sports agent you are tasked with the need to know how to get along with people on a personal level, you have to be able to gamble on your money situation, you have to have great sports knowledge and you have to live a lifestyle that fits in …show more content…
There will be struggles and day where you might think this job sucks. One person this has happed to is Andrew Brandt, and he shares some of his personal experience and how he describes being a sport agent is like on espn.com “Many are attracted by the glamour of working with famous athletes (and the movie "Jerry Maguire"). And yes, it can be exhilarating. However, the life of an agent is an all-consuming emotional and physical roller coaster catering to the whims of clients in their 20s. There are highs in signing a new client or securing a major contract, and lows in losing out on a potential client after months of recruiting or even losing an existing client to another agent for reasons that are hard to understand.” I myself understand that there is going to be crappy day in all career fields, but to me I feel like I can have plenty of crappy days in this career field for a couple good days. Manly because I would enjoy every day of it because it would be something I loved, so I still feel like this is a perfect fit for me as a