If you can't stand the cubicle lifestyle, it might be time to look for a job in golf course management. There are thousands of golf courses across the U.S. currently looking for professionals in golf course management. It is a booming industry that will only grow as the economy matures. In fact, golf course management is one of the fastest growing careers in America. More people are playing golf today than ever before.
As the baby boomer generation begins to settle into retirement, golf courses become a greater destination choice for retirees. As the demand for golf increases, so does the need for qualified golf course management to handle the traffic, and build out new courses to meet the growing need. Typically golf courses are located in areas that are exposed to a large amount of sun light, and thus can be considered a safe bet for the course to stay healthy. Because of this fact, often times the golf course management pool in the area is small to nonexistent. Managers who have potential in this field are living and working in or near a city. This creates an even stronger demand for golf course managers, and it doesn't hurt that the job calls for you to live in paradise.
Some people actually believe that golf course management is nothing more than setting up and monitoring tournaments throughout the year. This of course is a misconception, since golf course management is a career that involves all aspects of management. One will be expected to tend to the staffing matters for the course, as well as overlooking the accounting practices of the course. If there are extra duties for the manager, it could include helping out with the tennis courts, or the pool management duties.
Further, as a golf course management professional you will be acutely aware of the golf courses needs, and often be tasked to meet them. This means everything from sourcing sand for a trap that has had one too many wedges hit its sandy banks, to finding new tee boxes to match the course logo. There is much more to golf course management than meets the eye, but it is an extremely rewarding career for those that give it a chance.
Many wonder how the pay in golf course management matches up to that of a traditional management career. Not only are most golf course management careers competitive in terms of pay, but also the benefits can be outstanding.
Consider this fact, at most jobs; we consider ourselves to be lucky to have health insurance, a retirement plan, and possibly stock options. Imagine having all those benefits as well as a free membership to a course that costs its members $90,000 per year to belong. It's hard to fathom, but people that work in golf course management often reap the above rewards each year as part of their compensation package. If you can not be a member of the course, how would you be able to manage it? This is the fundamental reason why many people join golf course management, because a membership benefit can be unbelievable.
Don't wait until retirement to consider this career choice. That is when most people do it, and that is why it becomes a hard job to obtain at that time. If you are ready for a change of lifestyle and career, think about making the move to golf course management today. If you don't have the skills to get involved in the trade right off the bat, consider going back to school to obtain the marketable tools that will help you land the job of your dreams.
John is a wonderful person at home and at work but not on the golf course links. He has 2 daughters ages 3 and 8 that he dotes on constantly. He plays games and dolls with them and genuinely enjoys it. He is very much in love with his wife of 10 years and can't wait for date nights on Fridays. His friends and family say he is one of the kindest most warm-hearted people on the planet. His co-workers can't say enough about how John has always been there for them in his sympathy and caring for their issues. His mother told his wife long ago that John has a streak of anger in him but it hasn't shown up in any big way in their marriage so far.
John loves to play golf on Saturday with the men's club at his local links course.
Nobody wants to be pared with John though. Why?
As long as everything is going right with John in his game that day, he seems to be the John everyone else knows and loves. And even the members see him this way once they make it to the clubhouse or the 19th hole.
He's a pretty good player too, with a handicap in single digits.
But...John loses his temper and gets very angry out on the golf course links.
As long as he's scoring well, then he's allright. If not, watch out for John as he throws his golf clubs and cuss words out left and right. He berates himself and his clubs and goes on and on about how he stinks at the game. It doesn't take much to get him started. Usually it's a 3-putt or an out of bounds shot into the golf course woods. After having one of those or any other major mishap, John rushes up to hit the next ball thinking that he has to quickly erase the last bad shot as soon as possible. He hates feeling the anger. But in his haste and tension, he usually follows up one bad shot with another and the downward spiral begins... and the cusswords start to fly.
Do you have some of John in you? Do you know a John at your club? Maybe you have a playing partner like that or have been paired with one.
What to do about it?
The first thing to know is that anger is an emotion and all emotions are biologically a release of chemicals that cause actions at the cellular level driven by energy. What?
Nevermind that. What you have to do for yourself or for the John you know is get them to focus on something else; something entirely not related to golf as fast as you can.
If they've already blown up and lost it, It's not enough to tell them (or yourself) that "It's o.k., you'll make it up" or something like that. It's too late or too much for that to work. Start with that but get the thoughts somewhere else. Get the person on a subject totally outside of golf. The idea is to get the thoughts elsewhere.
If it's you we are talking about here, then take that another step.
A 4-year old child if told to pretend to do an action, like say, swimming for instance, wouldn't need water to give you a good show on how she does it. That's what you want to do! Go through the motions, talk your way through and actually "pretend" to be somewhere else righ then and there. Experience the feelings and images you would in your mind if you were actually doing it. Put yourself back on your last vacation doing something you love and really "experience it" in your mind.
This will shift your energy and increase your awareness in a heartbeat and allow you to get your body back to neutral or better as fast as possible. Otherwise, you are fighting a cascade of peptides locking onto receptor sites at every cell that will be very difficult to remove....and your golf game suffers.
When you are angry, you are not aware. You get so locked into being angry. Some of us are actually addicted to the chemical release of anger..but that's another story.
Next time out on the golf course links and anger starts to get to you, be a 4-year old!
Craig Sigl has sinced written about articles on various topics from Golf Guide, Recreation and Sports and Golf Guide. Craig Sigl, the Golf Anti-practice expert, is a Master and Trainer of Hypnosis, NLP and Timeline techniques. He plays to a 5 handicap and teaches his methods worldwide. Visit. Craig Sigl's top article generates over 40500 views. to your Favourites.