Phil X wrote:you are posting now.
What else do you think comes with a RealGM account?
Don't be an ass, Phil. He signed up for the same reason all of us signed up: not to post on a message board, but to become Real GMs. Because really, who the **** wants to post on a message board. Lame.
To answer your question, it will take a little bit of time, soldieronwheels. Note your title: ballboy. That's not a rank based upon the number of posts you've accrued; you will soon be receiving a call from one of our senior members, who'll first test your basketball knowledge, ask you to have a criminal record check faxed, and then assign you to a minor-league team as a ballboy.
Our member will also be your mentor throughout your first few years, and for that reason we generally recommend that you re-locate closer to them...generally we attempt to match posters to mentors and teams within 500 miles of their place of origin, but that's not always possible.
The ballboy position will be unpaid, the hours long, the towels smelly. It's demanding work, but rewarding; I'll never forget my three years with the Los Alamos RoadGophers of the Northern New Mexico Semi-Professional Basketball and Shuffleboard Association, where I worked so hard that I was promoted it to team manager within a month (the fact that the previous team manager was immolated when his meth lab exploded was fortuitous, I admit)...still unpaid, and still performing largely the same duties as before, but it came with a clipboard. And not a **** plastic clipboard, a really nice pressboard piece of work with a metal clip. And a doodle of Hitler being fellated by the American flag on the back left there by my predecessor, but if you remembered not to turn it over it was good as new.
Sorry, the nostalgia gets me every time. Back to your future. Once you've proven your worth as a ballboy, you'll be promoted, as I was. Then you'll be promoted again. And again. Soon enough, you'll be a real general manager just like the rest of us...might make it all the way to the WNBA or the CBL some day. Yogi Stewart there had a great run with the Cummington Beavers of the Massachusetts Over-40 Women's Elite League, and was poised for a shot at the big show until the allegations. Several others have managed teams at the highest level overseas; heck, not one but
two of our members lead teams in the Turkmeni League.
So if you feel that you're really, truly committed to this, let me know and I'll send you an information packet via email to start your journey. However, until such time as you have proven yourself, I would strongly advise against posting on this forum.
But before I send you the packet, ask yourself one question, soldieronwheels...are you ready? ARE YOU **** READY TO BE A REAL GM!?