Triathlon as a Job.

We are more concerned about our work.  I was reading a Spanish newspaper that writes about the proposal of Carlos Slim of increasing the hours per day and decreasing the days of work in order to face unemployment.  But in the same article, there is a statement that caught my attention:

"Soy Ceferí Soler -dice este profesor de Dirección de Personas (Esade) -, tengo 70 años, hace 50 que trabajo y hoy, 30 de julio, lo hago porque me da la gana" . La motivación, señala, sale de dentro. Motivación y preparación imprescindibles para un mundo en el que ya no se trata de hablar de la organización del trabajo, dice, sino del mundo del trabajo. El contrato indefinido se ha acabado, no hay empleo para todos, por lo menos no cada día, o no como ahora. Y de esto ya habló el sociólogo Jeremy Rifkin en 1998.

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His 1995 book, The End of Work, is credited by some with helping shape the current global debate on automation, technology displacement, corporate downsizing and the future of jobs. Reporting on the growing controversy over automation and technology displacement in 2011, The Economist pointed out that Rifkin drew attention to the trend back in 1995 with the publication of his book The End of Work. The Economist asked "what happens... when machines are smart enough to become workers? In other words, when capital becomes labor." The Economist noted that "this is what Jeremy Rifkin, a social critic, was driving at in his book, "The End of Work," published in 1995... Mr. Rifkin argued prophetically that society was entering a new phase, one in which fewer and fewer workers would be needed to produce all the goods and services consumed. 'In the years ahead,' he wrote, 'more sophisticated software technologies are going to bring civilisation ever closer to a near-workerless world. The process has already begun."^[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOET#Foundation_on_Economic_Trends

It appears that what Rifkin mentioned is taking place in ironman.  How to keep the job of triathletes? Only a few are going to be able to live from it.  Competing requires sophistication and the ability to be part of the MACHINE, considering our body the machine (“capital” in Economic terms) with all the available high performance software to be able to survive. (Please see our previous post on RAM (Random Access Memory).  The limit of our machine (our body) depends on the mental wiring which is tight to our education.  The Einsteinian way of conceiving education: “What it is left after we forgot what we learned at school.”  We have to reflect on the way of training, resting and studying triathlon in order to go fast to win races; and as a consequence, to survive as a triathlete.

We have posted related subjects before we learned what it will happen to the ironman organization, i.e. decreasing events and giving more money to the winners.  At the end, triathletes need to be professionals in the full extension of the word; otherwise, they would continue to be “playing triathlon” which happens most of the time because of ignorance about the subject of triathlon and lack of willingness to learn how to train better, how to improve nutrition, how improve recovery, etc.

Unfortunately, there are Presidents of nations and coaches that would not understand what being a full professional means; as it is the case of José Mújica when commenting about Suárez’ ban for biting:  

Asked by a journalist what his lasting memory of the World Cup would be, Mujica said: 'FIFA are a bunch of old sons of b*****s.'

The president then covered his mouth to feign shock at what he had just said, but when asked by the journalist if he wanted to rectify his comments, he responded: 'Publish it.'

Mujica then conceded that Suarez deserved to be punished for his bite on Chiellini during last week's World Cup Group D clash in Natal - the third such incident in the Uruguay striker's professional career - but criticised the severity of the ban.

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Ironman is stating what being professional means when paying more money and decreasing races with limited number of professionals.  Even Neymar knows why Brazil lost:  “We trained less in Europe but more intensely; we concentrate in what we do there compared to what we do as training with the National Team.”