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TheDude1

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Just wondering... do you think of yourself as a competitive person?

I know I am a strange mix. I am competitive with myself, if that makes sense. In sports, I have always played the position (soccer goalie, hockey goalie) where you aren't really directly competing with someone... it is more like you are competing with yourself. I love games like Scattergories, where you just sort of compete with yourself and your own memory.

But generally I am SO not competitive... I am actually far more into the coop nature of stuff. Video games? I hate multiplayer vs type of games; I MUCH more enjoy coop campaigns and the like. With basketball (I've played with a couple folks here on 2k16!) I will play 2 vs the computer every single time. I just don't enjoy having to outdo another person; I get so much more satisfaction out of running a great pick-and-roll with another person vs the computer than beating someone myself.

What about you? Competitive? Not really?
 
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I'm pretty much the same way. I'm not really competitive against other people, but do challenge myself to do better than before when running, working out, playing golf, etc...The only person that I am competitive with would be my brother, but it's not a serious competitive if that makes sense.

Sounds like you are very team oriented, TD. What do you do for a living?
 
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allabouttheUK said:
I'm pretty much the same way. I'm not really competitive against other people, but do challenge myself to do better than before when running, working out, playing golf, etc...The only person that I am competitive with would be my brother, but it's not a serious competitive if that makes sense.

Sounds like you are very team oriented, TD. What do you do for a living?
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Yeah, very similar styles... but I have no siblings to fight... er, compete with:)

I actually worked in sports for a while after college, primarily as a player agent and then in management with a team. It really did not suit me, and I am now an elementary school teacher, which is a lot more sort of "my style," if that makes sense:)
 
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TheDude1 said:
Yeah, very similar styles... but I have no siblings to fight... er, compete with:)

I actually worked in sports for a while after college, primarily as a player agent and then in management with a team. It really did not suit me, and I am now an elementary school teacher, which is a lot more sort of "my style," if that makes sense:)
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player agent sounds pretty cool, but I guess it's a pretty cut throat business, huh?

There is no way I could be an elementary school teacher, I don't have the patience for it. Some people fear clowns, small dogs, birds...small kids kinda freak me out. I find myself worrying all the time that they are going to hurt themselves. lol
 
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allabouttheUK said:
player agent sounds pretty cool, but I guess it's a pretty cut throat business, huh?

There is no way I could be an elementary school teacher, I don't have the patience for it. Some people fear clowns, small dogs, birds...small kids kinda freak me out. I find myself worrying all the time that they are going to hurt themselves. lol
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It was a very cutthroat business. I worked for one of the most... well, let's call it "questionable" agents in the field, and we specialized in players from Russia, which always left you feeling like there had to be some sort of mob connection (the entirety of Russian hockey is mob connected.) The GM role wasn't any better... I was on a conference call at one point with GMs from around the league for something or other, and we were a bit early, and I was talking about how tough it was to fill our building (we were playing in the Greensboro arena, which is a HUGE arena for a minor league team). Thirty minutes later the head coach came in and was upset because he heard what I said, and that what I said what I said (which was a simple fact) could be used against us in recruiting, and that I had to understand how dirty the business was. I gave the owner my resignation maybe a day later. Just wasn't for me.

Teaching is pretty good. I work with older kids (the young ones drive me crazy) and you get a really good connection there, and stay connected with them forever. It's pretty good, even if the pay sucks donkey balls.
 
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TheDude1 said:
It was a very cutthroat business. I worked for one of the most... well, let's call it "questionable" agents in the field, and we specialized in players from Russia, which always left you feeling like there had to be some sort of mob connection (the entirety of Russian hockey is mob connected.) The GM role wasn't any better... I was on a conference call at one point with GMs from around the league for something or other, and we were a bit early, and I was talking about how tough it was to fill our building (we were playing in the Greensboro arena, which is a HUGE arena for a minor league team). Thirty minutes later the head coach came in and was upset because he heard what I said, and that what I said what I said (which was a simple fact) could be used against us in recruiting, and that I had to understand how dirty the business was. I gave the owner my resignation maybe a day later. Just wasn't for me.

Teaching is pretty good. I work with older kids (the young ones drive me crazy) and you get a really good connection there, and stay connected with them forever. It's pretty good, even if the pay sucks donkey balls.
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That does sound like a crazy business, doubt I could do it as I can't stand drama.

Older is better, but still doubt I would be able to handle it. lol

I've heard a lot of people say that once you quit focusing on money and do what makes you happy that your life will be so much better. I just have to get some things paid off and then I will give it a try...hopefully.
 
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Yes, I would. I get upset if I lose at something. I'm not crazy about it, like some people I've met, but I do think I'm more competitive than most people. I'm always running around like a psychopath on the basketball court even though I'm well into my 30's and a shadow of my former self nowadays because I still dislike playing bad and losing. I was competitive in school but not like my brother and father who were borderline psychotic about it. In general however I'm very laid back.
 
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I would say in my personal life with friends or with my younger brother, definitely not.

In sports, if I do not like someone, I want to absolutely destroy them in anything we are doing, typically basketball or golf.

In my job, ultra competitive. You don't know it but I want to destroy you but I am very laid back about it. I am out of retail banking now and I want to crush every employee I work with in regard to goals, etc if they are going after the same type of business I am. I am 80/20 residential lending and getting my feet wet with commercial. My goal is to be 50% of the total business brought in for residential lending. We have multiple branches and I am on my way. Even more so when competing against a different company for the business.
 
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Very competitive until the kids were born. Then, it all seemed grimly comic. Which is a polite way of saying something else.
 
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I'm the type of competitor that when I play my 8 year old nephew at Madden or 2K I beat the brakes off of him.. Don't like losing.. Don't care who I am competing against. If I lose we go double to nothing immediately or best of 3.. I'm the same way with my job... I want the highest eval score... The promotion... Whstever... My wife hates I am like this... Can't stand to play cards with me... I play to win and will talk all kinds of smack while I do... I'm an ***
 
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Hey Sean, what about if your leg is shackled to a wall with 4 other shackled legged people with a lock key in the middle that can only be accessed if you cut off your own foot. Do you think you could cut your own foot off quicker than the other 4 to obtain that key?
 
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I am competitive. I don't mind losing, but I love a challenge. I was always allowed to set teams at our church basketball because I usually made the teams complete, but ever so stacked against my team. We would lose some, but I love figuring out what buttons to push to win the next one and when I lose I always want a rematch. I cannot stand crap like ringers and stacked teams. I would much rather have a game where my team fought tooth and nail and lost then a game I stacked for a blowout. I just enjoy out efforting and outsmarting my opponent. Only thing I will strait smoke anybody at is cornholw once I get dialed in.
 
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