Scott SoCal said:The world is a pretty big place. There are tons of success stories from folks who never spent one minute in college. Just because you have experience from one aspect of one industry does not mean much in the greater scheme of things.
Creed and Frankie are reasonably bright guys. My guess is Creed will be successful in whatever he decides to do. Frankie chooses to stay in cycling but he would be just fine outside of it.
Floyd? He's got a tough road to hoe, but it's not like he has no discipline or work ethic. He will find his way.
I don't know what TexPat does as a chosen profession but, from some of his posts, he seems quite content in NZ.
Steven Swart (ex USPS) went back to NZ and started in the building trade refurbishing property to sell and each new property was bigger than the previous and did well for himself.
yep, i imagine the hard training can be put to good use in 'real' life.