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    Here's What 17 Olympic And Paralympic Athletes Do As Their Day Jobs

    By Kristen Harris,

    22 hours ago

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    Olympic athletes are incredibly hard-working. Many of them hustle not only in their training, but in secondary careers as well.

    Here's what 17 Olympic and Paralympic athletes competing in Paris 2024 do for their day jobs:

    1. Australian Olympic volleyball player Zachary Schubert runs a cricket farm called Schubugs Cricket Farm.

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    He decided to raise crickets for human consumption because he needed a "retirement plan."

    He told 9 News , "I was in a bit of a weird place with sport. I wasn't earning a lot of money from it, and you see all your friends, they've got careers, they start to buy houses. You're sitting there chasing a dream."

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    2. American boxer Morelle McCane has funded her Olympic dreams with several jobs — birthday party clown, daycare supervisor, and mailroom worker.

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    She told the Houston Chronicle , "You just have to find what you can for the moment sometimes. Because the good-paying jobs, they want you around for a long time, so you just have to find something that you can get, get quick and keep that income coming in."

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    3. Olympic rower Robbie Manson, who represents New Zealand, is an OnlyFans creator.

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    He told the NZ Herald , "My bio describes me as a competitive athlete, where I strive to maintain a balance between artistry and professionalism."

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    4. American Paralympic fencer Ellen Geddes is a facility manager at Maplewood Farm and Bridlewood Farm, as well as the Breeding Director at Magnolia Sport Horses. She teaches riding lessons and raises horses for dressage.

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    5. Team USA Olympic fencer Anne Cebula is a model .

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    She paused modeling to train for Paris but plans to return.

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    6. American Olympic fencer and bronze medalist Miles Chamley-Watson also does modeling, which he sees as a "healthy distraction" as well as an opportunity to promote his sport and support himself financially.

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    7. Aly Bull, an Australian Olympic canoeist, is a firefighter .

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    8. Team USA canoeist and gold medalist Nevin Harrison paused her studies at San Diego State University for Olympic training, but she also has a part-time job at a bar.

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    9. Olympic runner Georgia Bell, who represents Great Britain, has a career in cyber security.

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    She previously quit running in 2017, but she got back into it around the time the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were airing.

    She told the BBC , "The plan is to go back [to work] but I'm having the best time of my life at the moment. Obviously, I don’t know what is going to happen this summer. I am really enjoying it, and I think we will just have to stay tuned."

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    10. American Paralympic judoka Maria Liana Mutia is a software analyst at Comcast.

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    She told Team USA , "Before a fight, I'm very, very aware that there is never any risk. Let's say I go out and lose, oh no, I get to go back to my nice apartment and my comfy corporate job. I feel nothing before a fight. And I feel a little bit of happiness and relaxation after I fight. Same goes for if I lose. I'm never at any risk, and I don't like to take chances in general."

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    11. New Zealand Artistic Swimming team captain and Olympian Eva Morris has two jobs — social media coordinator for the New Zealand Artistic Swimming Team and reformer Pilates instructor.

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    12. American Olympic rower Michelle Sechser is a product and analytics lead at Broadridge Financial Solutions.

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    13. Australian Olympic ice hockey player and silver medalist Aran Zalewski is a part-time senior consultant at Deloitte.

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    14. American Paralympic taekwondo bronze medalist Evan Medell is a diesel mechanic .

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    15. American Olympic fencer Kat Holmes is a medical school student.

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    She told CNBC Make It , "When I was going through my first Olympic cycle [in 2016], I definitely got burnt out. I was going 100 percent all the time. Now that I’ve been competing at this high level for 15 years, I recognize the signs."

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    16. Team USA Olympic basketball player Canyon Barry is a systems engineer .

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    He told NBC News , "It's definitely a grind at times. I'm so fortunate [my employers] are willing to work with me. That's part of the Olympic spirit to do whatever you can try to succeed and pursue that dream."

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    17. And finally, New Zealand Olympic canoeist Kurtis Imrie is an electrician.

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    He told High Performing Sport New Zealand , "An apprenticeship involves night classes, block courses, and on the tools work, and it would have been impossible for me to become qualified without the financial support [of the Prime Minister’s Scholarship] and a great deal of flexibility from my bosses over the years. Because of training and competition commitments, I could only work two to three days a week, which is why the apprenticeship took me six years to complete. I had to be straight up with my employers and let them know that my sporting goal was to make the Tokyo Olympics but that I also wanted to complete my apprenticeship."

    He also said that he was committed to earning his electrician qualification because of his parents. He said, "They strongly believed I needed something other than sport under my belt because I was not going to be an athlete all my life."

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