As I pointed out to a co-worker today, playing goal is excellent training for becoming a program manager, because a goalie has to look at a frozen chunk of rubber heading towards them at highway (or far, far above) speeds--and let the puck hit them.
Yeah, you'd like to catch the puck, but that isn't always possible. So you stop the puck any way possible, and that means you get bruises in interesting places.
There are days in program management that pucks would be preferable to some of the other stuff you have to body block. Easier to figure out where to put the ice, anyway.
Posted by lsefton at October 15, 2003 07:42 PMAnd here I thought it was preferable to be a goalie because it's the only position that actually encourages pratfalls.
Posted by: Stephanie at October 16, 2003 12:54 AM