-: Yeah, I love what I'm doing.
I genuinely love being able to interact with the kids.
I was a social worker for eight years
and I was more reactive, now I'm more preventative.
So I'm able to affect these kids in a positive light
before anything actually happens,
where they have to have some type
of social services intervention.
So that's the perfect role for me,
is being able to positively affect these kids in a way
that they might not get at home,
or they might not be able to express at home
or things of that nature.
So I actually love my job.
I feel like it's the perfect fit for me.
The most challenging part, I would say,
is the parent perspective.
Dealing with different personalities.
So especially with basketball,
you have 350 kids with 350 different parent personalities
that you have to deal with.
Every parent is completely different.
Every parent feels like,
my kid is the most important kid out of everybody.
And it's sitting here and having them understand,
you know, I understand your kid's very important,
but we have 349 other kids who is important as well.
So it's just that communication realm between parents.
Just letting them understand that I'm here for you.
And I'm here to listen,
but at the end of the day we gotta do
what's best for our program and do what's best for the Y.
So the parents and the communication standpoint
with that as well.
Dealing with parents with different ethnicities
and different language barriers.
That's also a kinda borderline issue with us.
Because our league is so big,
that we're integrating different races and ethnicities
that are coming with us.
So the communication barrier, the technology barrier.
We have a lot of older parents
and grandparents that have their kids in the league.
They don't understand Google.
They don't understand Excel.
So simply being able to explain that to them as well.
It's probably one of the major challenges we have
just the parent communication
and also just more technology communication.