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I am a nursing student and would like to work in the sport. Obviously it’s next to impossible to get on the asterisk medical team, but what are other options. Do the race teams keep medical staff? Big facilities like club mx? There has to be some kind of niche opportunity for a nurse who isn’t afraid to spin a wrench or help out somewhere else and loves moto.
Or the guys at http://www.motorcycleindustryjobs.com/ They seem to have a lot of good stuff. Good Luck! Hope you can find that rad dream job!
As mentioned above, look into the local scene as well. Any experience to help build that resume is good experience. Local professional teams (soccer, baseball, etc.) for real world sports related experience. Your willingness to keep your options open will only benefit your desired long term goal.
If you have the qualifications, all it takes is time and persistence.
The Shop
That being said, here's my feedback:
- Get a nursing job at a hospital that pays well. Work 3 12's and have 4 days off per week to ride. This all assumes you are getting a BSN or equivalent. You will have better experience for your future. You will have health insurance. You will have overtime. You will likely get a retirement account that is partially funded by the hospital that you work for.
- DON'T WORK IN MX! MX is your passion. It is a s**t career for someone who has the ability to get a much better job (aka you).
- If you want to be around the sport, offer to volunteer with the Asterisk medical crew. Offer in person, in the morning, well before the racing begins, at an MX or SX event when you can get face to face with the Asterisk medical crew. Do you have any ER experience? Any paramedic experience? These will be the most important bits of your background to them.
CRNA jobs pay very, very well but you will never find a nursing job in the motocross industry. Never. Don't take that as a challenge. Take it as grown up advice and a cold dose of reality. You would literally be taking your nursing degree, wadding it up into a ball and throwing it in the trash.
There are no careers in motocross. Keep is a hobby.
With that being said,
A nurse might not be what the professional teams or organizations are looking for but it is worth a shot if this is your passion and you are dead set on this route!!!
Best of luck to you!
Zookie offers solid advice.
I might offer the idea of volunteer now...while you're in school. I'd also go to a race, stop by the rig and introduce yourself. Ask how what you need to do to volunteer and what qualifications are they looking for. BOOM...you just got on their radar.
Get a full-time job that pays well, and then volunteer for ALPINESTARS MOBILE MEDICAL UNIT (Not Asterisk anymore)
All the guys that work for the AMMU have full-time jobs. This is a side deal and their passion.
Make the money so you can help out in the sport you love.
MX is still very behind when it come to employing on-staff medical the way professional stick and ball sports do. This is due in part to the lack of money teams actually have to spend.
I know you think you would love to work in the industry. My advice is make your money where the pay is good and keep one foot in the industry so it stays fun. Don't make your escape from reality your career. Because no job is perfect and it will still be your job.
Save loads of money while you're young and then when you get older and more independent, start doing more and more in the industry...on your terms. By volunteering, you'll make those connections and from there you'll be good to go.
We all know you're going to ignore this good advice and that's ok as long as you're ok not getting paid what you could make in the traditional medical field.
Far be it from me to stop you from chasing your dream.
Good luck kid...
I’m a nurse, it sucks. Dead end job. get out while you can. Nursing is not a billable service. It’s an expense to the hospital. You’ll always be the first to get cuts in the name of the budget.
...great profession for a woman though. Mega flexibility with hours etc to raise kids. If you’re trying to make money as a head of household look into something else....or marry a surgeon.
I also wouldn't give up on Asterisk (thought it was Alpinestars now?) medical unit. They might need some local help at a race near where you live.
Georgie, if it wan't sarcastic, you are a nurse, and this is what your world is like, you need to find somewhere else to work.
A billable service is antthing at the provider level.
Great profession for non head of household. Aka wife.....
If you wanna work a lot, they run you off the clock. No opportunity for overtime. Been in the game for about 10 years....it’s flooded with inexperienced candidates. And once nurses get the experience they need, they leave the profession.
Nursing units are a revolving door. Every 1-2 years a whole new batch of faces will be taking care of you. In the worlds most “prestigious” hospitals....it’s just how it is. Honestly great profession for women. They eat each other and throw everyone under busses. I don’t wanna get in argument about it though. I’m sure there are some nurses that really love what they’re doing. But for me it sucks every part of me being nice out. And then I get angry and take it out on vital. But as a patient you’d never know I was pissed off.....you’d think I love my job.
This Kid is young and passionate about mx...if I was 19 again I woulda went into the trades or engineer route. Hopefully whatever he does he becomes a master of his craft whether he loves it or hates it!
If your heart is set on moto find out what club handles flagging duties for the closest supercross to you and join up. Bring your bag on race day and make sure you run into someone from Asterisk and tell them your qualifications before hand. You may get a chance to help a downed rider (as long as your area is flagged properly lol)
Pit Row
If I remember correct you have a mil background. Go get that federal prison RN job and jump on that pension train. If you're having a bad day you can be mean to the patients and you won't get in trouble either.
No motorcycle organization on this planet, except maybe some high dollar MotoGP team, is going to employ a full-time medical staff. It makes absolutely no economic sense. There is no money in motocross. They can barely afford to pay the professional racers, let alone a bunch of expensive overhead resources the would barely use.
The best way to work in the moto industry is to become filthy rich so you can start your own team and throw your own money down the drain just like anyone else trying to be involved in this industry.
There is no money in motocross. Period.
I'm sure it's that easy.
You can carve your own lane in any industry doing anything that suits your skills...Anybody who says else has never started a business or pursued their dreams..
Like mentioned above, go after the Alpinestars unit. Try to contact them and offer your services for free or even just observing for an SX Race that’s local to you.
Don’t ever give up on your passion, most of these sour asses responding are punching a time clock everyday.
Then to see somebody say don’t use social media or email for jobs? Are you insane? It isn’t 1980 brah... Social media is the giant you need to learn to navigate in today’s society. It is a double-edged sword though.
Do these people not realize what these applications have done for so many people’s lives? Ridiculous. Rant done
edit: spelling
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