Female Athletic Trainers: Work and Life Balance (M

What are your professional goals?

What are your personal goals?

Discuss if working in the atheltic training profession provides a suitable working environment to achieve a balance.

Have you experienced challenges finding a balance between your personal and professional life?

If so, what factors have contributed to the challenge?

If not, why haven't you had challenges?

What personal strategies do you capitalize on to maintain or promote a balance between your personal and professional life?

What role does your supervisor play in your ability to find a balanced life-style?

What personal strategies do you utilize to sustain your professional enthusiasm?

Describe for me how your work setting has influenced your professional commitment.

Do you believe, once you have a family, that you will have to make sacrifices personally and/or professionally? Please describe.

As a young female, have you had a role model/mentor, who has helped you grow professionally? Please elaborate [why, what role they played, etc.].

In your opinion could having more female role models [those who remain in the profession with children] influence retention rates for other female ATs?