After waiting a long time in the void in order to get my account approved I'm finally here. I must say, this board has been an immense help for me during my darker times in school, doing my final year at a MSc in mathematics. I've had my fair share of laughs here, mainly thanks to the jargon of this board ("meltdown", "outed", "g4p", "... of peace" "hebrew" etc). I can honestly say, you kept me going on during this most recent period of exams, I was bored as hell since I had to skip the entire Christmas/new years holiday getting prepared for the last round of advanced courses. Reading threads here during my breaks was the only thing that kept me going, threads about melted livers, diesel dykes and many more entertaining threads.
I stumbled upon this forum a couple of months ago and I must say that I was shocked at first considering what I read here. I've been training for ~9 years now, but I've never really followed the BB scene more than checking up who won the most recent Olympia. Needless to say, top level BB competitors doing the so called "g4p", schmoe sessions, selling bunk gear etc came as a shock for me. I knew the top BB guys were shady drug abusers, but I never knew they were that deep into degrading shit. Anyway, this board has been an eye opener and given me plenty of laughs.
To get some sort of discussion going, why do so many "straight" bodybuilders turn to schmoe sessions for extra income? Wouldn't be easier to just get a regular decent job working part-time? Or is this just a side effect of a bad choice of lifestyle?