lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work on wall street. Nobody gives a sh#t about lacrosse nor are we impressed with anyone who used to play lacrosse. It is a niche sport at best. I think it is a lot of fun, but realistically as a men's sport, it's a cut above badminton or fencing to the vast majority of the world.

Advice to "elitist wannabees"-- invest in golf lessons for your kids. Unless your son is a pro prospect (by pro, I mean baseball, football, or basketball), competence on the golf course is the only athletic endeavor that matters to anyone beyond the age of 22.

pathetic

[Anonymous]

Actually, I think that squash would be preferable to golf--you can play it year round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work on wall street. Nobody gives a sh#t about lacrosse nor are we impressed with anyone who used to play lacrosse. It is a niche sport at best. I think it is a lot of fun, but realistically as a men's sport, it's a cut above badminton or fencing to the vast majority of the world.

Advice to "elitist wannabees"-- invest in golf lessons for your kids. Unless your son is a pro prospect (by pro, I mean baseball, football, or basketball), competence on the golf course is the only athletic endeavor that matters to anyone beyond the age of 22.

YOU DO NOT WORK ON WALL STREET

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120718315926985109.html

http://nymag.com/nymag/columns/intelligencer/19767/

http://sportsprof.blogspot.com/2008/04/lacrosse-and-wall-street.html

[Anonymous]

Agree that person does not work on Wall Street ...has no idea how that competitive world works...and they love athletes on Wall Street and so do most employers

[Anonymous]

http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/12/07/killer-land-huguelys-morgantown-property-yanked-from-foreclosure/

[Anonymous]

Biglaw loves lacrosse players too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biglaw loves lacrosse players too.

Yeah, so does Burger King

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree that person does not work on Wall Street ...has no idea how that competitive world works...and they love athletes on Wall Street and so do most employers

And I agree you are a insufferable hausfrau who bases her perception of business environments on what you see in soap operas or read in your pathetic lifestyle magazines. Do any of you honestly believe your son's future employers, bosses, or clients give a rat's ass which--if any--sports your son played in high school? Sorry ladies, but you're kidding yourself.

[Anonymous]

I think that's a bit naive, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree that person does not work on Wall Street ...has no idea how that competitive world works...and they love athletes on Wall Street and so do most employers

And I agree you are a insufferable hausfrau who bases her perception of business environments on what you see in soap operas or read in your pathetic lifestyle magazines. Do any of you honestly believe your son's future employers, bosses, or clients give a rat's ass which--if any--sports your son played in high school? Sorry ladies, but you're kidding yourself.

The whole point of the prior posts, I believe, is that there is something unique about the LAX culture and connections made which makes entree into Wall Street easier. So while I agree that generally whether one played varsity football, soccer, etc. fits into the rat's ass category, I think LAX may be different.

[Anonymous]

It would be if lax players tended to be smarter than the average bear.

[Anonymous]

Businesses like hiring people who have played team sports because it suggests that they have a good work ethic and can work well with others toward a common goal. Lacrosse players are prevalent because they come in large part from Ivies and other east coast schools who are already heavily represented in the east coast business world, esp wall street.

[Anonymous]

Hello there -- I'm not a "hausfrau" nor have I ever been. I never stopped working but for 7 weeks after I had a c-section. So, perhaps you are the hausfrau. I run an executive search business in town and know what my business clients pay me to find. And, yes, they love people who have the discipline to have performed as DI elite athletes at elite Ivies. And, fyi...I have a daughter and not a son. Maybe you've been in the suburbs too long you little hausfrau yourself...I'm in the city in the real world.


And I agree you are a insufferable hausfrau who bases her perception of business environments on what you see in soap operas or read in your pathetic lifestyle magazines. Do any of you honestly believe your son's future employers, bosses, or clients give a rat's ass which--if any--sports your son played in high school? Sorry ladies, but you're kidding yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be if lax players tended to be smarter than the average bear.

Well then they fit right in with all the Yogis on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Hello there -- I'm not a "hausfrau" nor have I ever been. I never stopped working but for 7 weeks after I had a c-section. So, perhaps you are the hausfrau. I run an executive search business in town and know what my business clients pay me to find. And, yes, they love people who have the discipline to have performed as DI elite athletes at elite Ivies. And, fyi...I have a daughter and not a son. Maybe you've been in the suburbs too long you little hausfrau yourself...I'm in the city in the real world.


And I agree you are a insufferable hausfrau who bases her perception of business environments on what you see in soap operas or read in your pathetic lifestyle magazines. Do any of you honestly believe your son's future employers, bosses, or clients give a rat's ass which--if any--sports your son played in high school? Sorry ladies, but you're kidding yourself.

Not the hausfrau poster, but you are changing your tune a little here. I would agree that potential employers would look favorably upon ivies and favorably upon candidates who played division one sports and managed to keep their grades up. I agree however with ms. hausfrau that lacrosse (compared to other d1 sports like baseball, tennis etc.) carries any additional weight. And participation at the high school level carries absolutely no weight. Can you imagine someone putting a high school sport on their professional resume?