I’m desperate to see videos of @Randy in the post. Need to see those cuts and box outs to believe it
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Good God, that chart is too good. I tell my wife I was made to be independently wealthy, but alas 
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We can’t all be Jan Michael Vincent tooling around in AirWolf ya badass.
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My daughter is also going to be graduating from college in a year, and she’s terrified that she doesn’t have a clear path for the rest of her life. We were talking about it recently, and I had to remind her that I’m a pretty awful example of having direction right out of the gate.
- I majored in international relations in college and didn’t even try taking the Foreign Service Exam because I didn’t think I’d pass.
- No one else wanted to hire me either, so I went to cook on a guest ranch in Wyoming.
- I was drinking far too much (mainly because I was bored out of my mind and missed her mother so much) and came back home to NJ before I wound up with a winter job at a ski resort.
- I went back to caddying one last time (my 9th summer, truly living on borrowed time)
- I got a job as a paralegal in DC because I thought maybe I should be a lawyer.
- I realized that I hated the law and got myself ready to get an MBA. But man, DC is the best place in the world to be 22 and under-employed.
- Got married and moved to Norfolk, VA because she had a better job than me.
- I took a job as an admin assistant / mystery shopper / financial analyst for a hospitality management company in VA Beach (the stories I could tell…).
- Went back to school at night for the MBA, which I have barely used at all since getting it.
- Taught myself to code.
- Got myself into IT, and worked my way up into a “good” management job with a “stable” company that I could have stayed at forever. But I grew to hate it there.
- Got another “good” IT management job with a state agency. But I knew I hated it there 30 minutes into my first day.
- Found a truly good job with a tech company I love, doing interesting things with people I enjoy working with and would do anything for, where I’ve spent the last five years.
I’m like Crash Davis, spending my life in the minors until I was 45, then finally making it to the show as a manager. I honestly could have taught myself to code in high school and skipped college. I could have gotten into tech so much sooner than I did. But I can’t imagine where I’d be now if I hadn’t spent so much time figuring things out.
So who am I to tell her that she needs to have her shit together right out of college? She’ll figure it out.
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Like all of you, I loved this weeks episode. I thought I would share a TS adjacent story about Arthur Hills from this episode.
I live in the same suburb of Toledo where Arthur Hills lived until his passing. I say that because I would have very occasional sightings of him over the last 10-15 years.
About 10-12 years ago I worked at a “big box” golf store in the area. As I’m sure you all know, there was club that you could sign up for that would give you regular emails and discounts. One day, Arthur Hills was in the store looking for a rain jacket (he ended up buying a Walter Hagen jacket, which I thought was different and pretty cool that he went for a “discount” brand). When he was checking out I hung around the register just to chat with him a little more before he left. The cashier asked for his email to sign up for the club and he gave what I thought was the coolest response I had heard in my time there: Arthurhills@arthurhills.com.
It was such a modest yet monster flex. Anyways, regardless of what you think of his courses, I always thought he was a kind person who would talk golf with anyone who asked.
Look forward to next weeks episode.
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That’s a great story. In the Inverness clubhouse (where both he and his son are/were members) his locker was covered in tributes and messages for the past year. I think he was very well-liked based on what I gleaned from talking with JB, the long-time clubhouse attendant.
I’ve enjoyed many Arthur Hills courses before. I’ll probably enjoy them even more now knowing that he was a good person as well.
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This episode could not have been released at a more opportune moment in my life. I’m 28 and recently left a position and industry that was sucking the life out of me.
Like many others out there, I have never known what I want to do with my life. I went to college straight after high school because that was the expectation, not because I myself sought higher education in any particular field. It was always a question of where to go instead of whether that was the right move for me at that time. I stumbled through, changed my major twice, and after 4.5 years I miraculously came out the other end with a degree in Civil Engineering. Again, not because it was my calling or even something I had any interest in pursuing, but because getting a degree was the mission and that was the path that made the most sense on paper, and at a certain point it was the easiest way out, so to speak. From there, I spent 3 years in construction management and an additional year in land development. From the outset, I knew it was not for me. It wasn’t long before I had the exact same realization Randy had when he was finally put on a project at McGladrey: I can’t do this. But I had just spent 4+ years getting this degree, so my path was already decided, right? Meanwhile all my friends were working jobs directly related to their degrees and seemingly crushing it, so I figured this is just what work is, no one is loving it but they’re doing what needs to be done, and that’s what I needed to do. The ensuing years were some of the darkest of my life, filled with despondence and bitterness that I ultimately directed at myself for being a failure. But more recently I have come to terms with the fact that I was just on the wrong path, and no matter how hard I pushed through there would never be peace for me there.
In the backdrop of all this, I have grappled with mental health issues my entire adult life. Those issues have always made it hard enough to get through any one day that I could hardly give any thought to the future and any greater plans or goals for myself. But I’m happy to say I have begun to unravel those issues over the past few years with help from professionals. So even though I feel a bit lost at sea in my current situation of focusing on introspection and figuring out the next step, I’ve never been more hopeful. And this episode came at the perfect time to offer the reaffirmation that what I’m doing now is exactly what I should be.
@Randy - Thank you so much for choosing to share your story. I hope to one day find the “something” you have found with NLU, and you’ve inspired me to keep pursuing just that.
And to the rest of the NLU crew - Keep doing exactly what you’re doing. Words can’t describe how much I appreciate your work.
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All, just want to say thanks for the kinds words and sentiments. A bit overwhelming (and uncomfortable if I’m being honest 
) but they do mean a lot.
And a huge thank you to @djpie for taking my long, rambling answers and finding a way to make an episode out of it.
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Was really hoping that’d be the click-thru link. 
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Any comment on the Duke hat?
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I’m sorry, are you disrespecting Coach K during his retirement tour? You’ve heard he’s retiring right?
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there were multiple duke hats, if i remember correctly. #thebrotherhood
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Maybe but it looked like that UVA hat he had on at the WM had seen the most wear when he was a knowledgeable young lad. We welcome Randy to the Cavalier Contingent
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Love the Duke hat. Keep repping.
(Duke grad here)
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great episode boys. possibly one of my favorites.
horrible display of flat stick work. I can’t poke too much fun since my last round was 75 with 40 putts.
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It’s bad. I repressed any memory of it. My best guess is I was on board the Trajan Langdon bandwagon.
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And the KU shirt? Where were yer loyalties then?
Did I catch Randy wearing a U of M shirt and MSU shorts at the same time in one of the photos? Truly a sick individual.
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In your defense, the Alaskan Assassin was fun to watch.
And I feel like high school Randy was going for the Dirk Nowitski look and game - which was rather popular at the time
Man, this went from “sentimental” to “roast” real quick. Dook apparel…indefensible.
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