These NBA Stars Got “normal” jobs After Retiring from the Limelight

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Retiring in your mid thirties, if you don't get a anaylst job etc no one wants to rot at home every day.


Western culture has fukked things up in the sense that our whole lives revolve around work. Granted I always myself always working towards something and probably would if I were in these retired basketball players positions as well but still it's interesting how we think. Set for life but still finding the need to work to find meaning in our lives.
 

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Man, have anyone paid attention to Referee salaries? :damn:

Im shocked more pro athletes dont become refs

because you can't retire right from the NBA to be a ref. you gotta put in time working in the shytty d-league or high school and all that bullshyt where u makes no money, and HOPE the NBA calls you up one day.
 

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I've been off work for three weeks before and was going insane of boredom a week and a half in.




Western culture has fukked things up in the sense that our whole lives revolve around work. Granted I always myself always working towards something and probably would if I were in these retired basketball players positions as well but still it's interesting how we think. Set for life but still finding the need to work to find meaning in our lives.
 

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Man, have anyone paid attention to Referee salaries? :damn:

Im shocked more pro athletes dont become refs

It's INCREDIBLY difficult to be a ref. You can make big money as a ref as just a regular guy, but it's tough. I was a YMCA ref and even that is one of the most difficult things I've done
 

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because you can't retire right from the NBA to be a ref. you gotta put in time working in the shytty d-league or high school and all that bullshyt where u makes no money, and HOPE the NBA calls you up one day.
wouldnt that be more a reason to turn into a ref? Not like money should be a major problem while they work up the ladder
 

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Dantley lives down the street from my aunt in takoma park in a regular middle class neighborhood been there since his playing days apparently...MOF that school in background he;s pictured in is in my old neighborhood:ehh:....very approachable good dude, from what i hear he does consulting on the side or invested in the construction field.......

i got a homie who work for metro who was telling there a more than a couple former unknown nba cats who work for them.....
 
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