You want to get hot chicks learn how to play a guitar.

Want to get hot chicks be good looking, or have game.

Ultimately this is the absolute truth, This is the formula I subscribed to and it’s worked out well for me so far.

Lol, yeah my buddy plays guitar and he tries to feed me the guitar BS. I always respond, oh you need a guitar to get action, wow that's rough.....

Guitar players get more girls than trumpet players, that'a a verified fact. Still...we do alright.

What do you call a girl on a trombone player's arm? A tattoo!

Lol

Once a kid grows up and hits the job market it’s all about beating the others with the same occupation. Especially in economic down turns. There are winners and losers in everything. Some never learn that...

From your first breath to your last, you're competing for something even if it's just the air that you are breathing.

I am grateful that my two kids were able to play sports. My son loved sports but school not so much. He was required to make the A/B honor role to play. He made sure he made the honor role.
My daughter took after me not a lick of athletic ability. She was also a shy kid. We practiced a lot and slowly got confidence and became a good athlete. They both have great jobs and have still keep in contact with a lot of their old teammates.

Agree.

But my question is how do “team sports” make a person competitive in the job market and careers?

You win or lose by the team. You can play great and lose or play like carp and still piggyback onto a win.

Golf, swimming, running....imo these are the sports that are gonna build on these traits not the multi person team sports.

Yes, but you have to beat out your buddy if you want to be a starter. Also, once you join a corp, you're part of their team and you're trying to beat out Corp B-you also have to compete within your org for promotions.

Unless you work for yourself in a job where you don't have to interact with anyone ever, learning how to be part of a team is just as important as knowing what you are doing. You can be the smartest person in your particular field. However, if you can't work with the rest of the people in your group/team/office, you won't last long. That's where team sports or clubs or organizations help round out kids. Over the years, I've hired a couple of people that were complete studs in an area and looked like they would be the perfect fit for a specific job. They got to work, had no interpersonal skills whatsoever and did't last long because they didn't know how to work with other people. Plus it made my life harder because I had to deal with the complaints that person X came out to do a job and was a complete jerk or made them uncomfortable. Teaching people the technical aspects of a job is easy. Trying to teach an adult interpersonal skills or how to behave themselves in a group is a lot more difficult.

In the job market or in sports there are always difference makers that are looked at to shoulder more of the load. Sports is the first place I saw that out preparing and out working the people around you was the path to becoming the go to guy.

Bingo....and I will add, being part of a team sport is much more about learning to deal with defeat even if you didn't cause it or weren't the culprit. How a person on a team deals with their team's defeat shows more about their character than just about anything else in sports, other than personal work ethic. I would rather take a bunch of people that were great in defeat and moved on from it, learned from it, and got better because of it, than a bunch of people that never lost and don't know how to deal with set backs.

One other thing I have told my kids about sports, they teach you to learn how to personally deal with authorities you don't trust, respect, or consider in good judgement. We all have coaches that for whatever reason are bad, but they are the coach and they are the authority. How we deal with that will reflect hwo we deal with co-workers and bosses that we personally don't like or respect. Learning early on how to do that might save some time and anguish by staying in a job a little longer than getting fired or quitting and being out of work.

I learned in college there are broke guys who win bar fights and smart rich guys who know how to build missiles that can destroy the bar and everyone in it.

And the guy that is technically both is the guy that sold the missile builder all the parts and made a whole lot more money then the one dimensional builder/engineer ....

“ But my question is how do “team sports” make a person competitive in the job market and careers?

You win or lose by the team. You can play great and lose or play like carp and still piggyback onto a win.

Golf, swimming, running....imo these are the sports that are gonna build on these traits not the multi person team sports.”

If you have ever been on a highly competitive successful team, the answer is very clear and simple. THE SUM OF THE PARTS IS GREATER THAN THE WHOLE.

This is exactly why I wrestled and so does my son. There is the team aspect of duals, but your win or loss could coat the team to win or lose. It's a sport that requires alot of discipline and mental toughness because the bottom line is that match comes down to one person, YOU. You train as a team so a good partner can help or hinder. My son places in the national tournaments and if he wants could end up with a D1 or 2 scholarship. Hes only 11 and has had offers from some of the private schools already but thats just not in the cards with our work schedules. In my opinion, team sports dont mean squat and individuals rarely stick out when there ate so many to lean on. I prefer sports like wrestling, swimming, gymnastics, track & field etc. They can make or break just how good you think you are and how bad you are willing to work to be #1.

I wonder how many convicts can say they played a team sport at one time.

Much like wrestling, convicts typically take part in man vs man duels/matches that involve scantly clad sweaty men rolling around on the floor seeing who gets to be on top....and This is why I played football and ran track

Probably quite a few, look at the actions of the players in the NFL.