Advice for breaking in
“I think that the biggest thing is just identifying a type of role that will make you happy. So there’s a ton of different ways to get places and the best path to get there is changing… For me, going to grad school and getting my PHD was the best option because sport science and biomechanics was relatively new. These days because it is more public knowledge there are people that will start as interns or very entry level positions that aren’t in sports science and work their way into it.”
“If you can make it on $30-40,000 dollars a year for a few years. You won’t have a degree in the field but you have been working in pro sports for 5 years which we find to be very valuable because aside from the programming stuff we do, we very much value communication skills because often we will get people who are really really smart but the end user we need them to talk has no idea about biomechanics. Having someone that can communicate biomechanics to someone with zero background is super important.”
“You can start in a low level position and along the way learn new skills that will increase your value to the team and we can end up in the same spot from totally different lifestyles.”