(S4) - PT #1 - Life after football

[Beaver]

You can't play football forever, you have to have a plan if you want to be successful once your playing career is finished. Write about what your plans are after football.

What would you do if you had a million dollars?
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Well, not all chicks.
Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Good point.
Well, what about you now? What would you do?
Besides two chicks at the same time?
Well, yeah.
Nothing.
Nothing, huh?
I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

That scene from one of the iconic movies of our generation has always resonated with Blackford Oakes. In high school his teachers and counselors would ask him what he wanted to do for a living. Unsatisfied with his answers they'd try to reframe it: if you won the lottery what would you do? What would you enjoy? That scene from Office Space always came flooding back. Nothing.

When the time came in college to really buckle down and figure out where he wanted to go in life he always asked himself one question to stay on track: will this help me earn the maximum money for the minimum effort so that I can retire early and enjoy doing nothing? He was always pretty good with math so he decided to major in engineering at Notre Dame. Not because he was interested in building shit but because it was consistently one of the highest paying degrees. Luckily for Oakes, though, an even more lucrative option became available to him during his time at college: the NSFL. Playing professional football would provide him with an even higher salary and it was something he actually enjoyed doing (though not as much as nothing).

Now that the time to enter the league is nearly here, Oakes has a blueprint in place: live modestly, invest early, and invest often in order to live off the interest his NSFL earnings generate, cruising lazily into 50 or 60 years of retirement.