And he has the obligatory coaching business…
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I’m not pretending he’s super wealthy, but £80+k (with some portion of his overheads provided by sponsors/race organisers) is a long long way from minimum wage as you claimed.
I don’t know what stage she’s at in career, but this year I paid £4.5k in overheads to be a Dr in insurance, registration and exam fees (plus student loan tax) and will earn £42-50k next year when I move back. So it’s not all 100% from her.
32nd in prize money across all triathletes in 2022, long short male female.
A lot lot lower I’d reckon in terms of Lifeterm earnings.
ETA: Average full-time salary is £33k. ONS estimated average Lifeterm earnings to be around 600k. I know not every works full-time whole life but they are clearly calculated different ways. But 1 million is probably enough. Especially earned young with some typical investing at ~5% compounding.
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I was using hyperbole 
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1M enough to retire at a ‘normal’ age (late 50s, or 60s). If you are a sportsperson retiring at the end of your active career you need to fund another 20 years of retirement, and expensive years if you include family and housing costs.
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Yeah, I don’t think a retiring elite sportsman is going to want to retire on national average wage 
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It would be interesting to know what your average retired Professional Footballer does with the rest of their lives; there are thousands of them knocking around at any one time.
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Speedboats and cocaine isn’t it?
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hence the massive mental health issues prevalent in those that don’t stay in the game in some capacity
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I guess the days of retiring footballers buying pubs are long gone 
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I don’t know why we encourage tens of thousands of boys every year to think they’re going to be the next football star in the first place.
Sports, music, entertainment. All the same problem.
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Because multi-billion £ industries rely on it I guess. Not that ‘we’ are probably in that category.
A Y6 girl at the Primary wants to be a Red Arrows pilot (Mum is ex RAF). I got chided by my wife/Mum when I suggested they better book her into the Laser Eye clinic; it’s like ffs I wasn’t going to say that to the kid, but her Mum needs to be realistic, even aged 11. RAF ground medicals are bad enough, let alone the aircrew ones.
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I don’t think there’s a problem with kids having big ambitions, as long as they are realistic about what it takes to achieve them have a plan B if it doesn’t work out.
I suspect a lot of the kids that are on the academy paths for the football clubs don’t have a Plan B and if football doesn’t work out for them they’ve neglected their education and they’ve got nothing to fall back on
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Exactly that; it’s all-in from what I can tell.
My Son’s best friend is spending almost the entire school holidays doing fooball. He’s only 9, but has already been sacked-off by Forest Green Academy and now plays for the County ‘Representative’ Academy. It’s very time intensive, and apparently he’s doing awesome according to his Dad. But I don’t know what the chances of ‘success’ are from a non League Team Academy (bearing in mind he’s already been given the elbow by FG at 9) @Hammerer ?
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FTFY
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Football treat kids disgracefully. 100s are in each academy, all are gonna be the next Wayne Rooney, none will make it realistically. Then you get the parents “buying” success and still failing, spending 100s of k chasing the big dream, trials all over Europe, moving to try and be seen, and not thinking when theyve been turned down 6 times already by League 1 clubs that its a fruitless exercise. They are pro scouts/coaches, they arent all wrong! You get it a bit in swim/tri, swimming moreso with kids being moved to new clubs and then not settling without their mates or worse new cities to go to Plymouth Leander, Stockport Metro, CofSheffield etc. and risking education as well. Only caveat is going to Millfield or Mt Kelly for A-Levels or Uni at Bath/Luffbra etc. as they are building an education and life experience, swimming is a bonus. Theres not even a golden goose in swimming if you do make it either!
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Mt Kelly is the rebranding of Kelly College I assume? That and Plymouth Leader/Port of Plymouth were oft mentioned by a couple of swimmers in my year; I think they were both PoP. One of them was Nick Broad ‘Broady’ PSG and former Chelsea performance chief Nick Broad killed in car crash | Daily Mail Online
I remember then both sitting in class reeking of chlorine!
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Sounds low. One of the Consultants where I was covering took a frankly obscene figure home from the NHS in a single year. With all the locum shifts etc. it’s pretty good.
Presume you’re not a Consultant yet though based on the number quoted.
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The daughter of one of my mates got a 6th form swimming scholarship to Mount Kelly and now she’s on a swimming scholarship to Louisiana State University, so swimming does “pay” if you’re good enough
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I think it largely is the extras. It takes a long while to get to consultant from what I understand, and even when you get there it’s certainly decent but nothing spectacular (definitely not obscene).
From a recent BBC article on senior doctors striking
Doing extra on the side in the private sector is probably where the real wealthy ones make it, but there’s only so many spots to do that, and I imagine it only pays big in certain specialities.
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Replied in Blackpool.
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