Nate Skon
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Article from this summer: http://www.newyorkwrestlingnews.com/news_article/show/526530?referrer_id=1024271
So he'll be like everyone else on the planet.
Skon has closed some doors for himself, but he seems like a likable guy with a positive attitude. I'm an optimist, but there's always time to change your life, even when things don't go as you planned.
(Life therapy, $150/hour, sounding more reasonable with every post, no?)
So he'll be like everyone else on the planet.
Skon has closed some doors for himself, but he seems like a likable guy with a positive attitude. I'm an optimist, but there's always time to change your life, even when things don't go as you planned.
(Life therapy, $150/hour, sounding more reasonable with every post, no?)
This is a great post. For some reason I really just felt like commenting on it - I must be sick of arguing over stupid stuff and semantics.
Are you offering the Life Therapy or paying for it?????
While I'm in the good mood that your post put me in, I've got to say I always enjoy reading what you have to post - even if I don't always agree with all of it all of the time - you're always reasonable and fair with your view points. Your blog was an especially great wrestling read, I'm sure you get that a lot, but really showed great talent in communicating the way it has resonated with many from the comment on here and other boards.
Hey Gobblin, I am pretty sure at one point, somebody said the same about you and me. Unfortunately for Skon, he screwed up an experience at one of the best places in the world for his chosen sport...for that, many (in our old shoes) will never be able to forgive him. It's like getting a shot to be Tom Brady only to say, nah, f*ck that sh*t...I wanna be home drinking with my boys on the weekends. While I agree in part with Tarp, I just hope he doesn't wake up one day and see the sheer magnitude of it all. Conversely, Mike Kelly is going to sleep like a baby.
I get tired of seeing people posting like kids are going to have all of these regrets and everything. Maybe that's what he likes to do, drink beer with his friends and hangout. Hell I know a lot of great people who like to do that. Very few have that insane love and drive for the sport that it takes to be the best. How do you know Mike Kelly won't wake up in 10 years and wonder why he ever wasted his time and worked so hard when he never had a snowballs chance in hell of being an AA let alone a NC?
People are all different
People are all different
2 years of construction work will go a long way towards helping you take college seriously.
Some people like to accomplish things and some people like to be on Uncle Sam's teat. To each his own. I agree.
As a teen and young adult I squandered many opportunities and made some life altering choices that many, including myself, considered mistakes. As a middle aged man when I reflect back I don't have any regrets because I love the family I've built, relationships I've forged and man I've become. All of those things are a sum of my experiences and there is no doubt that they would each be different if I had different experiences or made different choices, good or bad, during my teenage/young adult years.
He is reminiscing about how much an "adrenaline rush" his first title was in high school. At some point when he turns 30 it wont seem quite as impressive that he won a title in wrestling in high school. I bet he will also wonder what else he could have been capable of.
Obviously wrestling is a priority for this guy, unfortunately his education was not. My guess is that in 10 years he will regret not taking advantage of a "free" education with all the perks of being a college athlete at a D1 school. It is amazing the doors that open after winning a few D1 titles.
And it would also go a long way to making you a better person with a little hard work under your belt.
(and no, I'm not in the construction business or anything remotely close, but had my days long ago as a youngster, those are the people that contribute and make the world go round)I tried detassling corn for a summer in Iowa. It reinforced my desire to go to business school.
Wasn't trying bash Nate if that's the impression I left... I guess I was just stating the obvious. He could've had the world by the balls had he given any effort whatsoever to stick it out. I wasn't trying to say that he'll be in a sleeping bag outside Quicken Loans arena wearing a tattered LeBron jersey and holding a bottle of Wild Irish Rose begging for change. Geesh.
If I could have gotten a job working construction right out of high school, I am not sure I would have went to college. I like that kind of work and the money would have been hard to pass up.
Yeah, those construction type of jobs for high school grads have always been hard to come by.
I detassled 2.5 years, where else was a kid going to make that kid of money at 14-16 years old? It wasn't hard, just hot.
That'd be me. Feel free to drop some change in my cup because whiskey keeps getting more expensive.
I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not. The reason I could not get a construction job out of high school is because there weren't any to get. I am also just saying that some people like that type of work and freedom that comes with it.
My older brother was able to get a construction job and he lasted about 6 months and he was ready to go back to college. Everyone is different. I was only sharing my perspective.
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