Did you think three moves when you posted? I was a a D1 football player at a perennial top 30( at times in the teens) ranked football school. Can you fathom the actual amount of time and sacrifice to get on the gridirion, nevermind maintain, the least a 3.0? I busted my ass not only to maintain my grades, but to achieve at the highest level fir a billion dollar athletic department. My tuition was artificaiily inflated because of pell grants and other social engineering.
I wasn’t allowed to have certain employment.
I imagine you could work and create income fir yourself. I was prohibited.
Form me this is a 44 year running conversation. My brother in 1968 gets paid 500 dollars per semester plus full scholarship while I busted and broke my body chasing a wet dream on the diamond. So yes, I know about your sacrifice.
And lest you argue, ah look at the revenue we bring to the university. Hmmmm, I can think of many students in academia generating revenue in research, patents etc. AND while they are not busting their body as you had to, they very well may be spending far more hours on their projects than you.
In my era, we used to call it "choices" while undoubtedly you call it exploitation.
In the end I would have never traded the choices I made with the experience I gained, lessons I learned, becoming a better person. That mental toughness I learned then is serving me now.
And who the hell FORCED you to play a kids game?
You made your choice. I was a D1 baseball player, and guess what, nobody complained about the time and work. You did what you had to do, or quit. We did not just play our games on Saturday afternoon. Our games were on all seven days. Sometimes we would leave campus for away games at 8 am, and return at 10 pm, on a weekday. Nobody cried. We were happy just to receive free spikes. Everybody knew the deal going in. If you did not like it, well the trades were available. Nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to play football in college instead of getting a job in construction.
It’s a shame you never learned to spell the word “for.”