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Parallels exist between pursuing careers in MX and golf, and neither is immune from the long-term impact of poor decision-making. Golf presents its own set of challenges, and chasing that illusive dream can result in financial hardship and worse. For every guy making good money on the PGA, you have hundreds scratching out a living chasing second and third tier tours and developing questionable habits. Alcoholism and gambling permeates golf at all levels, leaving in their wake broken families and mountains of debt. An over-generalization? Perhaps, but likely in parallel with some of LocDawg's comments.
One point LocDawg makes is true: golf does offer greater long-term financial potential outside the sport than MX. Vastly more people play golf, and it's more socially acceptable, than ripping up terra firma on a dirt bike. Plus golf scholarships exist at all collegiate levels, providing that rare utopia of pursuing an education AND chasing an athletic dream.
That being said: let's step away from stereotyping the MX community. No investment is without risk, and failure can and does occur at every level. And if that's the preferred course of the moto parent, so be it.
Also for perspective, On sheer Numbers there is a higher percentage of people who make money racing MX than the percentage of Golfers making money off competitive Golf.
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There's a big difference between someone who manages an office and someone who provides strategic insights to corporations but its obvious you aren't exactly a genius either so we'll leave it at that.
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no amount of rationalizing these points makes MX a good career and its still a bad decision
God help the corporations you provide strategic insight. Again given you want to remain anonymous, I don't believe shit of what you say you do. My point was that you can call your position anything you want, even garbage men are called sanitary disposal experts (guess that went right over your head) So lets leave it at that too....
I'm a 143...how bout you?
Everyone forgets why they started riding their dirtbikes: Fun!
I see LocDawg's point, logically the sport is a financial disaster, but let Mrs Peter's have fun with her kid. Her boy obviously is in good hands, and she is looking out for him while he is chasing his dream.
35smom is having FUN and that is what it is all about!! Damn, I've been racing since the '77 (I NEVER have stopped) and I could have been retired by now with all the money I've blown on bikes and racing. I have 6 dirtbikes now, and have bought over 67 new bikes for me, my kids and wife.
But I wouldn't have lived my life on my terms.....
I think that's what Mrs Peters is doing at the moment and living her life on her own terms. That is L-I-V-I-N-G.......
I even had my brother go out and buy his son a rake so that he could get into the new, upcoming sport, leaf raking. This way he only spends $10 on his son and by next week can already see a return on his investment. Apparently my nephew cried because he said raking leaves wasn't fun, so I called him up and scolded him saying, "Dammit Peter, don't you know that anything in life that's fun is a bad decision? You need to realize that your parents need to get a return on their investment, and unless your Peyton Manning or Lebron James then you aren't going to make any money in fun sports". This is good parenting IMO. I think a lot of you white trash parents should do this same thing to your kids instead of leading them down a path destined for failure.
I'm proud to say that as of yesterday, I left my former "white trash" self to become a successful, respectable, hardworking American like LocDawg. Thanks to him, I have the opportunity to finally get my life back on track.
Why bash people who are trying everything they can to live their dreams? We all fail, even you had "your head stuck up your ass for a couple yrs"
Oh and people who like you for the fact that you give advice to companies and make awesome amounts of money are probably not on a mx board.
I mean, he was conceived in a trailer! Probably looked very much like (or identical) to this...
I went racing today & Won. Now I'm chilling on the golfcourse.
What did you do today?
Pit Row
However those days are behind me, as like I said in my previous post, I'm trying to get my life back on track. Thanks to you I just landed a job at the El Paso County Correctional Facility as a prison officer. To be completely honest, that was the only other place I could get a job as there isn't any business here like you pointed out. But all in all it's better than nothing I guess!
http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Hall-of-Fame,25/Three-types-of-people,6736
Have you seen my Stapler?
GrapeApe MUST get POTD with this one!
So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it over there..... that would be terrific. mmmkay?
I read the first three pages and then jumped to the end. So forgive me if this has been pointed out already.
I see LocDawg is from Texas . And we all know there are some bat shit crazy MFers from TX. Not all Texans are, but it's a big state. So even a small percentage is still a big number.
It looks like LocDawg might just be the leader of the pack for them.
So LocDawg, what Fortune 500 companies are you advising today? I would think a big brain like yourself would have better things to do that argue on Vital. It's not a good ROI of your time. My god man, how were you raised? Didn't your parents teach you better than to waste your precious time? Aren't you late for your meeting with Tim Cook and Carl Icahn?
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