Mark Gorscak

DO YOU HAVE SURVIVAL SKILLS? What would you do to survive while getting job experience in your field? Here are some of the experiences that I survived to get ahead in FOOTBALL! While as a graduate assistant football coach I tended bar at a rough, tough dive bar called the Eldersburg Inn that was nicknamed “the Knife and Gun Club!” I was the only one in it that did not have a knife and gun! I slept in the coaches locker-room on a ratty leather couch some nights! One night I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and was walking bare foot. I felt crunching noises underneath my feet. I turned on the light and saw I was walking on cockroaches coming out of the couch! I had nowhere to go that night, so I turned off the light and went back to sleep on the coach! They only came out at night so as long as I got up before daylight, I was OK! I am not lying to you! I took a dare to go to Ogden, Utah to be a graduate assistant for football marketing at Weber State that turned into coaching tight ends and handling team travel. I travelled from Miami, FL to Ogden, UT where I just completed graduate school with a worthless sports administration master’s in a beaten-up silver Volkswagen Rabbit nicknamed the Silver Surfer! The alternator was shot after the first day. A trucker at rest-stop showed me how to jump start it with a jumper cable from the car battery tapping a screwdriver that was touching the inside of the starter! Try making a 38-hour, 2568.1-mile trip that way! I have other stories featuring my survival skills! But I am a little crazy! I have a lot of respect for people who had it rough to get ahead in their careers. I have very little respect for the ones who were born with the silver spoons in their mouths So how badly do you really want job experience? Sometimes You just have to Suck it up Buttercup!!