Find your ultimate calling in a sport

Be it an inspirational dialogue from a sports movie or a real-life situation that you hold on to for inspiration, you can totally make a career out of a sport. Sabah Rikabi is a hotel management student, who finds himself drawn towards racing and karting. “I worked for two years in real estate. Apart from that, I’ve trained with Real Madrid academy in Dubai some years ago, and I’ve also honed my entrepreneurial skills at the Young Entrepreneurs Competition in the past. My ultimate dream is to become a successful hotel manager, and simultaneously, a well-known motor sports driver,” he says.

The benefit of exploring a sports option is the personality development and skills acquisition that happen as a byproduct. According to Preeti Hemant Kambli, mother to sportsoriented teen children, Tanishqa (a celebrated and multi-award winning athlete) and Hemant (a cricket prodigy), the inclusion of sports in her children’s daily lives has had a positive impact on them. “With everything on their plates, raising them to love sports has ensured that they have the mental toughness to handle pressure,” she says. Dina Al-Amudi’s pre-teens are taking their big steps into sports while still young. “Joining a sports club in Dubai is surely expensive, but we can change our way of thinking and treat sports as an investment into our children’s future,” she says.

So, whether sports becomes a career or not, it definitely helps in developing a network that can lead to your next job — while having fun and staying fit.