Once the cheering stops: The life of a retired pro-athlete

Personally, I believe that the life of a retired athlete is different for each individual. For some, it is a life of fame and luxuries that some individuals could never even dream off and for some athletes I think it could be a life of unhappiness and misfortune. If you are an athlete that has been successful and responsible throughout your career the odds are that you will be able to live the life you want to. However, in some situations athletes have to forget about there past and move forward finding a job just like the rest of us. I believe the biggest transition that athletes face while transitioning to retirement is the fact that they are no longer being payed an annual income, and for some of these athletes that like to role around in big groups of supporters this can get extremely hard fast. I believe the reason that athletes struggle so much making this transition is because they have a hard time saying no to someone. We as a society have this belief that all athletes will be rich forever and more common than not that is not the case. In certain situations I believe the athlete themselves feels as if they owe everyone something because they made it and are afraid to turn someone away when they come asking for favors when reality is they dont have the funds necessary to be lending out support. Along with this idea of giving out money I believe that athletes as a whole spend way to much during there careers and do not spend enough time thinking and saving for there retirement. Overall, my personal opinion is that athletes around the word spend way to much money on unrealistic material things like cars and jewelry. I have thought about this topic before because we constantly see athletes in todays society filling for bankruptcy and I just cannot believe the amounts of money they have wasted during there careers and the fact that they did not have someone responsible telling them what they should be saving.