Lower level hockey is a tough world... not much pay, not much job security, and little chance to move up. That goes for everybody involved from players to coaches to front office etc.
Lower level hockey is a tough world... not much pay, not much job security, and little chance to move up. That goes for everybody involved from players to coaches to front office etc.
Its a tough road. Spoke with a family member of a former cutthroat player today, looks like he's probably giving up the dream.
This is sad, but not overly shocking. That league is a joke, I actually applied for a job with the Wichita Thunder when I lived in Wichita in 2008. They wanted to hire me, but I turned them down, for a job at the US post office because the pay they were offering was a complete joke and an unlivable wage. They wanted me on salary so I'd have to work 55-65 hours a week and they wanted to start me at around 21K. I took the $18.50 an hour for 40 hours a week at the post office.
My dad also used to work with one of the owners of the Colorado Eagles right around the time they made the switch to the ECHL, and one of the main reasons they pushed so hard to join the ECHL was due to the complete cluelessness of the guys in charge of the CHL. They apparently have no business sense what so ever according to the guy my dad did business with. The Eagles owners knew that they'd struggle to survive in the CHL even by selling out every single game.
Damn that sucks.
$21k? I've never heard of a salary that low. That's like minimum wage but you to got to work 60 hour weeks with no OT.
Well that's the kicker of being on "salary" and not hourly there is no overtime and it doesn't matter how little or how much you work you still get paid the same.
I think 21K was a little low I think it was like 24K or 25K, whatever it was, it was really low and they were expecting a lot, they basically wanted high quality work but weren't willing to pay for it.
Sounds like their version of a paid internship. Usually you get paid hourly for that low, but they wanted someone to put in a lot of hours they didn't want to pay for.
Damn that sucks.
$21k? I've never heard of a salary that low. That's like minimum wage but you to got to work 60 hour weeks with no OT.