Good for him. turns pro young. Has some fun with it.
Moves on to real life and gets the hell out of bodybuilding at the decent age of 25.
Seems like a good set up to a good life.
Maybe he didn't do that intentionally but it's for his own good.
Have fun, Dan. Then move on after you get a couple of years in as a "pro athlete."
Sadly, he won't come close to "moving on". Pro bodybuilding is a delusionary world, in which your friends, your family, your gymrats, your everyday conversations lead you to believe you are "freaky", "massive", and "future Mr. O" material.
I mean, look at the severe Cro-Magnon jaw on him at age 21. The guy is overstuffed on gear and still can't get the tape measure to break 19" in contest shape.
Reality Check: He'll double or triple the dosages, quit any semblance of a job he's ever tried to maintain, experiment with going up to 320 lbs off-season, treat people like shit, grow a massive gut, move to Vegas, let creepy photographers take creepier photos of him, mistake the EQ flu for swine flu, start injecting synthol in his arms, grow angrier by the day at how this whole "bodybuilding" thing isn't paying the bills and yet he's still treated like a celebrity when he goes to the gym or nightclub, beat up a girlfriend or two, piss blood, hit 30 and realize how stupid he looks and how he's wasted 10 years to make $50,000 total, give it "one more shot", place 16th at the New York Pro, fall ill, get off the sauce, re-emerge one year later and 75lbs lighter at age 32 as a personal trainer, blame the weight loss on some non-bodybuilding-related illness, come on Getbig, get owned by another reincarnation of Squadfather, meltdown, leave Getbig, move back to Manitoba or whatever 3rd world part of Canada he's from, fade into Bolivian, and only resurface as a thread by GBM asking "Whatever happened to Dan Hill?" in 2020.
