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Originally Posted by valo403
An AHL career isn't a bad living? I guess if you consider a few years at $75,000 or so with limited long term earning potential, a profession that puts you at constant risk of life changing injury, a demanding travel schedule and little to no certainty as to where you'll be employed next week a good living that's true. If you love what you're doing that's not a bad living. If you don't that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to pursue.
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Agree. The guys I know who chased the dream through the minors for years making $30-40k/year (this was the 90's) and having to move routinely from Knoxville to Brownsville to Phoenix to Knoxville to Somewheresville hit 30 years old and realized it was time to come home and start a life. That's when the reality kicked in and it was time to get some schmuck job that their friends had at 19, making next to nothing and trying to establish themselves in the real world. Many of them loved the experience and can tell you great stories about being the king of some 2 horse town each hockey season, but I know most of them would have given it up much earlier if they really took a step back and saw how it would impact their grown up lives.