How to become pro athlete

GUYS. I'm 22. If i don't do something it's going to be late soon. I need to go pro in something. I want to get paid to work out for a living, because the concept of actually WORKING at a normal job fills me with a type of dread that cannot be described in words (but pic rel does a good job)
Seriously, there has to be SOMEONE on this board who went pro in SOMETHING.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pro is a state of mind
    like whatever ur doing right now, ur pro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      professional moron? thanks i guess. i'll take anything i can get.

      Get into trades, constant moving heavy shit around.
      Not construction though, too destructive on your body.
      They pay you to learn the job, and you got a strong union to get you benefits up the wazoo (just make sure to join it)

      Examples homie

      I should’ve joined the military at age 18 man
      I am in STEM uni and fricking hate waking up every day, i am 23, floated the idea of joining when talking to my dad and he was like ”Nah they’ll never take you, you aren’t 18/19, just focus on uni”

      Those words fricking made my heart sink, having to slave away at some menial office job like a drone, that’s all my life is good for.

      I am going to shoot myself in the head soon, i can’t handle this.

      naaaaaaah they'll take anyone they can get in the military

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I should’ve joined the military at age 18 man
    I am in STEM uni and fricking hate waking up every day, i am 23, floated the idea of joining when talking to my dad and he was like ”Nah they’ll never take you, you aren’t 18/19, just focus on uni”

    Those words fricking made my heart sink, having to slave away at some menial office job like a drone, that’s all my life is good for.

    I am going to shoot myself in the head soon, i can’t handle this.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They'll definitely take you at 23. As long as you fit their physical and mental requirements you're young enough that any branch would take you. Your father made shit up

      https://i.imgur.com/4rkTvb4.jpg

      GUYS. I'm 22. If i don't do something it's going to be late soon. I need to go pro in something. I want to get paid to work out for a living, because the concept of actually WORKING at a normal job fills me with a type of dread that cannot be described in words (but pic rel does a good job)
      Seriously, there has to be SOMEONE on this board who went pro in SOMETHING.

      Yngmi if you haven't already started working hard in a sport that you just so happen to be built well for unless you're freakishly talented

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Your father made shit up
        This, he’s probably thinking you want to be a grunt but try to go the intelligence route and make bank.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Your dad doesn't know what he's talking about but then again you're 23 and still taking everything he says at face value so you're a moron. That being said the military isn't going to be any better, everyone has a false idea of what it's like until they're actually there.

        https://i.imgur.com/aKErqkM.jpg

        Dude you can join the military right now lol. Here have a workout to prepare you.

        Ok i’ll contact them and see where it goes

        With a degree you can do more meaningful technical work in the military and get better pay. They love to hire in the 22-28 age bracket for these jobs as this are mostly people fresh from uni with a bsc or msc and maybe 1-2 years of work experience. In any western country these jobs are typically well paid and probably a lot more enjoyable than the equiv in private sector (or other public sector jobs)

        I don’t want some safe worthless desk job, i am in engineering right now and it’s ”fine” but looking at potential jobs in the future just makes me want to cry

        I want to LIVE i want to do real shit, i want to feel human and do real things in the real world with real people. I am so tired of being a passive nobody, i want my life to mean something to belong somwhere.
        The military feels like my only option left
        >but le danger
        I didn’t plan on making it past 30 in the normalgay corporate sphere anyway so who the frick cares

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Your dad doesn't know what he's talking about but then again you're 23 and still taking everything he says at face value so you're a moron. That being said the military isn't going to be any better, everyone has a false idea of what it's like until they're actually there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dude you can join the military right now lol. Here have a workout to prepare you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      With a degree you can do more meaningful technical work in the military and get better pay. They love to hire in the 22-28 age bracket for these jobs as this are mostly people fresh from uni with a bsc or msc and maybe 1-2 years of work experience. In any western country these jobs are typically well paid and probably a lot more enjoyable than the equiv in private sector (or other public sector jobs)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The military isnt going to solve what seems to be your problem. Might actually make it worse tbh

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Military is 95% waiting around and preparing stuff. If you want actual action and thrills go join the CIA so you can be at risk of arrest and torture 24/7 in a foreign country.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's infantry. You can get a job in the military where you actually learn a skill, like fixing airplanes, working IT, crypto, etc. If you're smart enough you can work on nuclear reactors, get out and make 6 figures very easily at a powerplant.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >You can get a job in the military where you actually learn a skill, like fixing airplanes, working IT, crypto, etc. If you're smart enough you can work on nuclear reactors, get out and make 6 figures very easily at a powerplant.
          Uh, so like the exact same STEMgaygery the guy I replied to wants to avoid, but with slight differences in salary and benefits?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Still plenty young to join. I joined when I was 21, got out after one enlistment and the joined another branch when I was 28.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Those words fricking made my heart sink
      I tried to enlist and they turned me away for health issues
      literally nothing more demoralizing and soul crushing for a man than to be told that youre basically not even worth the money to be trained

      after that I moped about for a bit, went to uni for a CS degree, stopped halway when I got a job as a developer
      I make above average money for my country, but Id still rather be in the military

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get into trades, constant moving heavy shit around.
    Not construction though, too destructive on your body.
    They pay you to learn the job, and you got a strong union to get you benefits up the wazoo (just make sure to join it)

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Look into firefighting. I was nearly fully qualified but sudden health issues ruined it.

    Now I've accepted my fate of having a comfy office job, but if I could I'd still be a firefighter with no hesitation.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unless you're exceptionally gifted, it's too late by like age 21-22ish because your competition has been playing since they were like 14 and have years of experience on you.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >How to become pro athlete
    >I'm 22
    It's already too late

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just do combat sports. They will let literally anyone become a pro MMA jobber.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unless you're a medgay or lawyer, enjoy being a wagie slave (unless you have rich parents lol).
    Only way to get rich in fitness is to be a fake natty nowadays, so you'll have to roid, be charismatic, claim fake natty and do meme videos for normies and wait to get sponsored by *your generic supplement brand that does nothing* and get normies to buy your snake oil.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i almost went pro. was an academy player ages 12-18 for a bundesliga team. wasn’t good enough for the first team and injured a lot. got an offer from a 2nd bundesliga team at 18, it would have put me on 1750 a week. but no guarantee of playtime and only 2 years. i was constantly injured and decided against pursuing it. on my position was a star player and i don’t think i would have been good enough.

    now i don’t have to live like a monk anymore and have 2 degrees making comfy money.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm 25, and that is still my dream and goal. I fricking hate everything else in my life, except for working out. Only time will tell how I end up, but I'm fricking strong and fast already.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what sport are you targeting? Are you good at it yet?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You haven’t even picked a sport it sounds like. Choose something and stick with it homie damn

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You should literally grind your ass to become a fitness influencer and pivot that money into mma training.

    Only shot any non 12 year olds have unless you wanna start the pickleball world championships.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    at this point you're literally too old for any of the mainstream sports, even if you were starting five years ago you'd still be too old. If you want to go pro in something just for the sake of calling yourself a pro athlete, your best bet is some ESPN 8 type shit, something that only has a pro league by the most generous of definitions. There's just too much competition otherwise. Unfortunately for you, even WNBA benchwarmers will get paid more than the top athletes in those. In other words, you'll still be a wagie. If you want this to be the way you actually put bread on the table, you also need to consider the fact that you have MAYBE tenish years to have a pro career if you're picking anything that's remotely meaningfully athletic. So sadly, your options are either a glorified beer league, or a 'sport' that doesn't actually require you to workout like shooting or racing. Either way you're not living the NBA player lifestyle. Your best bet is unironically to learn to enjoy the simpler things in life and come to peace with the human condition. Contrary to what moronic art students who live off their parents money will tell you, an ordinary life is deeply rich, meaningful, and enjoyable, even if it takes place in an office. That or work construction if your only real goal is getting paid to work out

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah i think i'd rather kill myself. Thanks and frick you.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Being a pro athlete 99% of the time means some israelite is profiting off of your prime years and when you age out of your sport you have no skills to transition back into the real world. Find some sport you enjoy as a hobby and have fun with it.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >it's going to be late soon
    you're ancient already

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      like half the competitors in the olympics are under 25 and/or have been training for a majority of their lifetime. why do you think there's so many fitness """""influencers""""" these days? most of these people had a late start and didn't want to work a normal job or they were training for something and couldn't cut it

      https://i.imgur.com/so32aMJ.jpg

      If you're a complete freak of nature then you might be able to make it into one of the fringe ones where nobody but the champions can earn a living off of it after several years of work. If you're a normal person then it's been too late for a while now

      Yeah this thread is fricking suicide fuel. I mean, deep don i already knew this is the answer...but it's just not fricking fair man.
      Why the frick didn't i get into sports early....i should have known but at the same time its so fricking insane that if you're moronic when you're a kid/teenager your entire life is fricked.
      People always said
      >STAY IN HECKIN SCHOOL FOCUS ON YOUR GRADES IF YOU WANT A GOOD LIFE
      Ok. I did pretty good in school. I'm going to get my epic degree. And then what? I'm just going to be one of the millions of fricking drones, one indistinguishable from the other. I can't do it man. I don't want to do it. My life shouldn't be set at 22. But...it's over. I fricking compromised everything. I'd like to do it over. let me tell you man...if i could just go back 10 fricking years.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You’re 22. You’re still a kid. Get a grip. What you feel now is a reflection of what you think you should feel. Working a 9-5, then coming home to your wife and kids and pets then hanging with the bros at the weekend and serving at church on a Sunday is an incredibly fulfilling existence.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    like half the competitors in the olympics are under 25 and/or have been training for a majority of their lifetime. why do you think there's so many fitness """""influencers""""" these days? most of these people had a late start and didn't want to work a normal job or they were training for something and couldn't cut it

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you're a complete freak of nature then you might be able to make it into one of the fringe ones where nobody but the champions can earn a living off of it after several years of work. If you're a normal person then it's been too late for a while now

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why is this feeling so common among young men now?

    Almost every young guy wants to do ANYTHING except the office job white collar shit, but women love those jobs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Almost every young guy wants to do ANYTHING except the office job white collar shit
      Fight club came out in 1999.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Start roiding and become a pro wrestler

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I need to go pro in something

    Oh I'm sure it's just as easy as that. It's not like most sports require obsessive dedication, talent and funding and support from a young age. The sports that you can start late in and reach pro level still would require stupid amounts of hard work and talent, no offense but you probably don't have what it takes by the sounds of it so just suck it up like the rest of us and find a job that doesn't make you wanna have a nice day

    Also no pro athlete is browsing IST but there probably is some successful enough YouTube guys that lurk around here every now and again

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