Proper Jobs

[Gross]

Ahhhaaa.... but did they only orienteer full time or did they help with club activities & coaching etc etc.... For example Simone will have more to her 'job' than just orienteering training and competing.... PR & other promotions.... which come with being a top class orienteer....

What I'm saying is that your 'average' international orienteer won't improve if they are full time as an orienteer... they need some other kind of activity (paid or otherwise) to keep them busy & giving the mind a rest.

[Gnitworp]

I suppose you could become supremely terrain fit full-time, but aren't there too many imponderables, e.g., inevitable map ambiguities and inconsistencies, to make technical supremacy a worthwhile full-time aim?

[Nails]

what and mr gueorgiou http://www.tero.fr/ isn't technically supreme? Think there are loads of the top guys that can physically stay in touch with him but not technically. Technical supremacy allows you to notice and discount inevitable map ambiguities and inconsistencies. 'Oh -that re-entrant has been mapped strangely -oh well i know where i am and the contour line should go like this instead'

[BJesus]

Gross>> do you count say Wayne Rooney as a professional full time?? or does he do PR stuff and the like, which might as you put it, take up a fair amount of time

[Gross]

yeah.... but he's not exactly performing to his potential ... is he????

[lincolnsteve]

3 goals against Bolton last week, the kid looked awesome...if that's not playing to his full potential then I cant wait to see him when he does

[Jon Brooke]

I ask this not because I am making any point, but because I don't know the answer:

Can you be a member of the GB squad and have kids?

[m]

Karro Hojsgard and Marika Mikkola both won medals at WOC in Sweden- both have kids....

Back to the job thing....Does anyone want to give me a nice part time job next year, in a nice place with enough money for me to orienteer...

I think it is quite hard to get that perfect job situation.

[rocky]

Mhairi, you can have my job when i get a proper one next year.

Now, does anyone want to give me a nice part time job now, in a nice place with enough money for me to orienteer...

[Gross]

Can you be a member of the GB squad and have kids?

Lorna Eades was, Helen Winskill is..... so was Stan Hale

[Pippa]

Interesting to note the entire Swiss men's team seem to be competing in the World Military Champs....although some big names a long way down.

Men's middle won in sub 5 mins/km, women's in 5:30 mins/km, I'd be interested to see the maps!

Pip

[SeanC]

Rocky wrote

"Now, does anyone want to give me a nice part time job now, in a nice place with enough money for me to orienteer..."

Linking with that other thread on vision, if there was a bit more money in the sport, all you elite runners could be offered nice part time jobs in orienteering doing things you might be good at, ie:

- mapping
- planning
- coaching
- development work
- fixing the BOF website

and you could all live together happily in shared houses to save on housing costs, train together and spend your spare time arguing about whos turn it is to clean the bathroom.

[rocky]

i don't think you have to be in full-time military service to run MWOC, any country with national service means that once you have done national service you are in the military does it not? a lot of those military runners were at world students too...

could be wrong of course.

[Lard]

Mhairi - Stue Caithness's job sounds like a job for you - 3 days a week when you can do it, based at Glenmore Lodge with all that gorgeous terrain! Or is it not so cushy Stu?

Most orienteers like forests so why don't you work where the forests are? http://www.forestry.gov.uk/vacancies

Lard
PS - I don't believe you can devote so much time to an employment and be world class in your sport, you must be part-time or have a very very flexible employer (eg Civil Service - they've always been good to me-3 wks unpaid a year, 30 days leave, 10.5 days p&p and 2 days a month flexi = 168.5 days off work per year including the weekends!)

Lard (currently in work, but having a flexi tomorrow )

Lard

[gg]

SeanC, you pretty much just described my life...