In the all no-work and no-play department, the New York Times is reporting that a new kind of soccer league has been formed in Hoboken, New Jersey. It’s called a “Recession Soccer” league, and it is made up of the newly unemployed and underemployed.
The league was the idea of Ian Sacs, a laid-off transportation engineer. He was laid-off in October, and quickly realized that he was not the only one out of work, and started to think of ways for people to connect, get exercise and do a little networking. After all, you can’t spend all of your time looking at those job sites and sending out resumes!
Weather permitting, the league meets mid-day on Friday at the Frank Sinatra Park on the Hoboken waterfront. There is a wide mix of people and former occupations, and everybody has their own stories to tell of how they got there (unemployed) and how they are coping with their new economic situation.
Who would have thought that playing soccer could be called networking. I wonder if I could convince my wife that hanging out at the track and the neighborhood pub is legitimate and essential networking?
SCORE!!
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