An athletic director is a career in life that many people do not choose or want to experience. Being an athletic director involves long hours and stressful days. Athletic directors also have to go to every sporting event and deal with athletes who are misbehaving on and off the field, but I want to deal with all of those situations one day. I always wanted to have a job that dealt with sport in all its forms. My vocation in the future is that of sports director because I have competitive values, a role model and I am well organized. Ever since I was little, I have always wanted to win in everything I do, no matter what it is, from sports to getting the best grades in all my classes. This is one of the main reasons for my decision to become a sports director in the future. To be an athletic director, being competitive is the key to a winning program. I want to be known for having a school that works hard, but is also competitive in all sports. If athletic directors are not competitive, few students will want to come to their school to play or watch sporting events. I also want to make kids better at sports and by being an athletic director I can be fully involved in teaching and teaching athletes how to play a sport. Athletic directors need to know how to develop kids to be more competitive, without yelling at them. I would never yell at my athletes to make them more competitive when I am an athletic director. Additionally, I would hire coaches who know what it takes to have a competitive team, but who realize that I am the manager of all sports teams. Competitiveness is something I value very much and I can use it to my advantage when I am in...... middle of paper ...... administrators be professionally trained in the body of knowledge in matters of management and sport” (p. 138). My major will take me to that point in life where I can fulfill my dream of one day becoming a high school athletic director. It will make me smile every day going to work knowing that I have a competitive sports program, am a role model for children in every way, and am a well-organized athletic director. The day I am hired as athletic director cannot come soon enough. Works Cited Bucher, CA and Krotee, ML (1998). Management of physical education and sport. Boston, MA: WCB/McGraw-Hill.Mentor. (nd) In the online Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.oed.comSchneider, RC and Stier Jr., WF (2001). Recommended educational experiences for high school athletic directors (ADs). Physical educator, 58(4), 211.