At this point… OMG, just overthinking all the facets is almost impossible to bring this together here. You are doing things according to create or to maintain your ‘market value’. To become one of those few comes with broken bones, blood, dedication, discipline, soul, live changing decisions, sweat, fitness, age, management skills, organization, relationships, and a drop dead killer instinct. In fact- they are not professionals, unless they can make a living of it so that they don’t have to follow any other regular full or part time jobs anymore. So like a replacement for Expert kinda thing. It seems this term has become a indicator for skill level, like: Amateur> Advanced> Professional. I noticed that some claiming the title ‘professional’ because their fast- or someone calls an instructor at a track day a ‘professional’ while they are not actually. Let’s clean something up before we go deeper into this. If you are not, then I suggest to make sure to graduate school so that you have a plan B. Btw… nova days you kinda have to be on the race bike at an age of 4 years already to eventually make pro level. Not saying it’s impossible- but it kinda skips quite some significant steps there. Cuz’ how do you know that you’ll ever be THAT GOOD at it?! If you look for it too early, you just make yourselves a four years old who says ‘I wanna be an astronaut when I’m grown up’. Just this explains a lot and makes dreams pop like soap bubbles already, right?! Especially when you just started racing and look out to those stars already by asking that question too early. An easy way to look at it is: You gotta be THAT GOOD at it, that you get paid for it. I was one, and now I’m a professional coach- which is why I know. I am a strong believer in dreams, because all good things BEGIN WITH A DREAM, but becoming a professional racer is something only a few can turn into reality. If I would get a dollar, each time someone asks me on how to become a professional racer…
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