On the penultimate night of the ICC mentorship, I want to go back to the very beginning of my MBA studies: what made me decide to go after a degree in the first place and how I have evolved along the way. It is safe to say that I have always been a Walter Mitty kind of person. For those of you who remember the original story from James Thurber or the film adaptation starring Ben Stiller, Walter Mitty is a man who envisions his life to be a lot more glamorous than it really is. There were a lot of things I have wanted to be well into my thirties, most of them revolving around television: news anchor, late-night host, and of course, play-by-play sportscaster.
Somewhere there is a connection between what Al Michaels, Joe Buck, and Jim Nantz do every Sunday during the fall and business, so I decided to pursue a concentration in sports management in the spring of 2017. I have stayed on that path for the last three years, and yet a lot has changed in the time since. Namely, I rediscovered my passion for communications after seven years away. Why then did I decide to stick with sports management? Because over time I have learned that versatility is my strongest suit. On my LinkedIn page, I recently shared a post someone had written indicating that communications are that link between different parties, whether internally or externally (Shulby, 2020). That perspective has made me see things in a whole new light that will guide me as I navigate what lies ahead.
Reference
Shulby, M. (2020). I have to get something off my chest. We HAVE to change the stigma around the term “communications.” #Communications is [Post]. LinkedIn. Retrieved from https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6730213752211406848/