I know we all receive those emails with the surveys from graduate students looking to finish their research with the click of your mouse. We all see the SWATA and NATA eblasts come through our emails. We all secretly guess the injury during a game on TV and ignore when the broadcaster talks about the trainers and medical staff. We question in our heads or maybe out loud what the profession is doing for us or why our school or hospital or boss doesn't understand how important we are...
But, I may suggest, the question is really... ARE YOU IN? Are you taking part in the surveys to help out a graduate or are you the one complaining about the 5 minutes spent away from Twitter or Pinterest? Are you reading through the eblasts with the national news about your colleagues or are you complaining we do not get enough coverage? Are you clicking on our corporate sponsors' links or are you complaining your local rep isn't hooking you up like he use to? Are you communicating with the leadership in our associations or are you complaining that your dues don't mean anything? It doesn't take being on a committee or pledging 20 hours of volunteering at NATA. It takes the day to day involvement of filling out those surveys to help a next generation athletic trainer. It takes 5 minutes to explain to a parent who athletic trainers are and what we do. It takes talking to your administration to tell them why it is IMPORTANT to find money in the budget for your dues and CEU's. It takes making a phone call or sending an email to another athletic trainer who went through a rough injury or had a tragedy happen at their school. It take 5 minutes to email someone on the SWATA board with encouragement or suggestions. It takes banding together as a profession and knowing that many are stronger than a few.
We all have our ideals of what the profession should look like and what our organizations should do for us. What are we doing daily to promote our profession and ourselves as professionals?
Here is one of those surveys... written by your colleagues trying to find ways to help make things better for young professionals and all athletic trainers. We need to know what you like and what bothers you. We need suggestions on how to make YOUR associations more accessible. We need you to be in! Please take 5 minutes to fill this out. We need YOU to be in!
Are we in? Are we commited to the profession or to our jobs? Are you in?
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