So I have been swimming with a masters team since august and have since then paid my usms membership fee at the end of October to be able to swim in a meet we recently had. I haven't recieved my usms card in the mail yet. In two weeks and am going back home from school for a month but need to swim in a structured program and am gonna find the masters team at home and wanted to know if I could still swim with them without my membership card, is there a way to prove my membership without it?
Chris...I'm curious how many companies you've run, worked for, particpated in building, ran PR and/or marketing for...same for Roddin, Peg and anyone else who seems to think I trivilaize volunteers from USMS and don't "appreciate" what work has/is being done?
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I love swimming...and I'm a buisnessman and very competitive...I want this organtization to be highly successful but to be honest I'm tired and fed up with being one of the only voices out here asking hard questions and trying to fight the fight and getting told to go "volunteer" and/or quit bitching.
I am not sure exactly how "why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag" turned into "I am asking the hard questions."
The reason people seem to think that you trivialize volunteers or don't appreciate what we do, Paul, is that it is pretty much exactly how it sounds.
"Why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag? USAS does. It would be SO EASY. PS: You suck." (Obviously I am joking a little here. But only a little.)
I have no business experience, you are right, and you have a good point about fitness instructors etc. But I do not think the answer is to add to the burden of the most overworked LMSC members, the Registrars.
Comments shouted out from the peanut gallery can be helpful, but only up to a point. The reason people get on you to volunteer is that it seems very important to you and, as you point out, you have a lot of experience to offer. (I realize that working as a coach helps "the cause" a lot too, so it isn't that I think you are a layabout.)
Chris...I'm curious how many companies you've run, worked for, particpated in building, ran PR and/or marketing for...same for Roddin, Peg and anyone else who seems to think I trivilaize volunteers from USMS and don't "appreciate" what work has/is being done?
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I love swimming...and I'm a buisnessman and very competitive...I want this organtization to be highly successful but to be honest I'm tired and fed up with being one of the only voices out here asking hard questions and trying to fight the fight and getting told to go "volunteer" and/or quit bitching.
I am not sure exactly how "why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag" turned into "I am asking the hard questions."
The reason people seem to think that you trivialize volunteers or don't appreciate what we do, Paul, is that it is pretty much exactly how it sounds.
"Why doesn't USMS give me a luggage tag? USAS does. It would be SO EASY. PS: You suck." (Obviously I am joking a little here. But only a little.)
I have no business experience, you are right, and you have a good point about fitness instructors etc. But I do not think the answer is to add to the burden of the most overworked LMSC members, the Registrars.
Comments shouted out from the peanut gallery can be helpful, but only up to a point. The reason people get on you to volunteer is that it seems very important to you and, as you point out, you have a lot of experience to offer. (I realize that working as a coach helps "the cause" a lot too, so it isn't that I think you are a layabout.)
