How Playing Sports Early in Life Can Help Your Career Did you
play a sport as a kid? Perhaps your group of friends played
soccer and you followed suit. Or maybe you were an excellent
runner, a track star. No matter how much experience you had with
organized sports, it’s likely that your participation has
affected your work ethic or career in some way. Research shows
that women who played a sport as a child or teen benefit in the
following ways: - Go further in their education - Land better
jobs - Make more money: 82 percent of women in executive
positions played an organized sport after elementary school. And
one out of every two women who make $75,000 or more identifies
themselves as an athlete. How can playing sports really help you
become more successful in your life and career? Here are a few
things you learn while being part of a team: The importance of
hard work. Sports, as well as other hobbies, teach us that hard
work can pay off – particularly if you’re not inherently great
at the activity you enjoy.