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Business Marketing, and sports marketing.

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Sports agent (hockey), team manager, content creator, and digital marketing manager.

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These careers would be meaningful because I grew up in sports, and love them.

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Salary: $42,000- $700,000
Education: not needed, but business and marketing degree helps.
Move around a lot watching clients, and spend a lot of time talking to coaches and general managers.

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Neil Sheehy is someone I know in this field. He helps negotiate NHL contracts with professional hockey teams.

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Taking sports marketing would give me a better understanding of how teams operate

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After Neil Sheehy graduated from Harvard University, he put his degree in the proverbial closet and set out on a professional hockey career that lasted eight NHL seasons and earned him a reputation as a tough defenseman, protector and even a goon.

"I never looked at hockey as a career," he said. "It was something I loved to do and I had fun doing it. It was something I was going to do until they kicked me out. And then I would go out and start a real career."

It didn't take Sheehy long to start his real career. After leaving the NHL in 1994, he launched a sports agency, to represent professional athletes in contract negotiations, got his law degree and now runs the seventh most valuable NHL agency, with $217 million worth of contracts under management, according to Forbes.

Sheehy's Edina-based I-C-E Hockey Agency represents many NHL players with Minnesota ties, like Ryan Suter, Nick Leddy and Justin Fontaine.

Sheehy can relate to Minnesota hockey players because his own roots are in International Falls, where grew up, played high school hockey and studied hard to get into Harvard.

Sheehy played the bulk of his career for the Calgary Flames, where he made connections that have helped him to this day. When he retired, his former Calgary teammate and roommate Paul Ranheim asked to become his first client. That gave Sheehy his start. In 1992, Sheehy paired with Gary Suter on

Calgary's defense, which sparked a lifelong friendship that later helped Sheehy gain the trust of Gary's nephew, Ryan Suter.

Sheehy negotiated in 2012 the 13-year, $98 million contract that made Suter a member of the Minnesota Wild. The contract is tied with Zach Parise's as the largest in team history.

Wild owner Craig Leipold opened his checkbook for that transaction.

"I can tell you first-hand that he cares about the players that he represents," Leipold said about Sheehy. "He cares about them as people, not just trying to get the last penny he can get out of you - and typically they're not pennies."
Neil Sheehy

Agent and owner,

I-C-E Hockey Agency

Age: 55

Playing career: Parts of nine NHL seasons, most of them with the Calgary Flames; also played for the Washington Capitals and Hartford Whalers

Family: Married with nine kids, ranging in age from age 13 to 25

Stats: Scored 18 goals with 47 assists, logged 1,316 penalty minutes

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Hockey pro's 'real career' started off-ice - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal

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After Neil Sheehy graduated from Harvard University, he put his degree in the proverbial closet and set out on a professional hockey career that lasted eight NHL seasons and earned him a reputation as a tough defenseman, protector and even a goon. "I never looked at hockey as a career," he said.