Just like any other job it comes down to an individual decision. What I have noticed in my area over the past 10 years is that less people are willing to be umpires or coaches. It isn't limited to those fields, but those fields are most definitely impacted. I recently heard a new phrase called "The Great Resignation" to describe the current environment of the U.S. job market. It's a very challenging time for many businesses, and employees for that matter. As someone stated, umpiring is a job, so it's not surprising that it faces many of the same challenges that other jobs face. If the industry (youth sports) cannot find a way to improve the work environment or the wages/benefits, the challenge will continue. That's why you are seeing those service industry jobs paying higher wages.In my experience.
Working at Starbucks was harder than umpiring.
Actually the barista at starbucks interacts with hundreds of people hour. At one point we were instructed to look every customer in the eye when handing their beverage saying their name. While we were at a working pace of not having a line of people that had to wait longer than 3 minutes from standing in the line to receiving their drink.
100 customers per half hour.
Burn milk recently? Makes for a bad reaction!!!
Could go into the other job responsibilities but probably not necessary.
Umpiring pays better.