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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this hyper competitiveness for clubs is such crap. College should be when kids try out whatever they are intersted in [/quote]

Every college has plenty of non-competitive clubs that anyone can join. Its generally the pre-professional clubs that are more competitive, but they can't accept everyone. They are run by students who can't manage a 2000 person club. This is good learning experience for students to learn how to hustle for jobs.[/quote]

I agree with this. There are so many opportunities to be involved other than pre-professional clubs: student government, service organizations, workout clubs, sororities and fraternities, religious organizations, performing arts, being a resident advisor, part-time jobs on campus, etc., etc. And all of them provide leadership opportunities. [b]Kids are not relegated to a life of isolation and iced out of jobs after graduation due to not getting a bid to a pre-professional club.[/b] [/quote]

It is not supposed to be like that, but unfortunately it is how it operates in the real world.  Ever heard of "It's not what you know, but who you know" or "It's not who you know, but who knows you"?  That's why.[/quote]
The real world is not as narrow as that. Sometimes the “who” you need to know is the kid you met in the “pickleball for beginners” club. [/quote]

This is pretty hilarious. Even beginners in Pickleball want to play with people who are more skilled than they are. It’s especially common among those in leadership roles. For instance, the CEO at my company is a Pickleball newbie, yet his admin assistant is posting on the internal website, trying to find highly experienced/advanced players among the employees to play with him after work and on weekends.  Your statement of "[i]Sometimes the “who” you need to know is the kid you met in the “pickleball for beginners” club[/i]" is absolutely delusional. [/quote]

So what I’m hearing is that the CEO at your company wants to pick up a new skill, in a social setting. [b]Have you told him that he’s not allowed to waste the time of pickleball champs until he develops pickleball expertise on his own time? [/b]Because that’s what you said about college students who want to learn pickleball in a social setting.

What’s delusional is thinking that expertise in pickleball (!) will be more important over a lifetime (!) than the skill of trying new things and developing informal social networks not based on pre-existing expertise. [/quote]

He is the CEO of a company and your kid is NOT.  As a CEO of a company, he can get/demand things that 99.999% of people can not.  College students who want to learn pickleball in a social setting should stick with other beginners.  [/quote]

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