I am a soccer referee, you know the people in the bright yellow jerseys and who way the flags up and down. It is a good job because it pays pretty well for just running up and down a line and waving a flag. I referee 12 and 13 year old because you can only referee kids that are 2 years younger than you. For refereeing that age I get paid 15 dollars for being a sideline referee and 20 for being a center referee. That may not seem like much but, when you do 2 or three games a day that only last a hour. It adds up. I usually do my job on Saturdays during the summer around 10:00 am. I am a referee for LCSC which stands for Livonia City Soccer Club. The bad thing about being a soccer referee is that every 2 years you have to take a class and a test to make sure that you still remember all of the rules. That may not seem that bad but, the thing that you don’t know is that the class is six hours long. You may ask “What do you during those six hours?” Well some teacher comes in and for the first four hours the teacher goes over all of the rules and over certain compacted situation s that you may occur. It is so boring. Then you have a half hour for lunch, which goes by very fast because it is the only fun it of the six hours. When you get back from lunch you take the test. This test is about four pages long. If you pass the test then you get a patch and if you fail the test then you have to retake the test and to take the class you have to pay 50 dollars. So that 100 dollars if you fail to take it again. I just had my class last weekend and my teacher was no the sharpest tool in the shed. You would think that it would make sense to review the rules of soccer before the test but no; apparently that way did not make sense to the teacher. He made us take the test first thing when we got there and review after the test. Now does that make sense to you? He would not even let us have a lunch break. So in conclusion, being a soccer referee is a great job, besides the six hour class. You can even make up to 200 dollars in one game if you stick with it.
