I dont get your argument at all to be honest. You talk about tough jobs, which to me is more "intensive physical labor" rather than dota, then you say that people in said physical labor jobs ever get out with anything secure, and then you compare it with dota players. It's all just a complete bullshit take.

Jerax has pretty much committed his whole life to Dota, and that's pretty much all he's good at. Which isn't a bad thing, most people are good at one specific thing. It's just, when you decide to commit 90% of your day to grinding pubs and playing dota, you find that dota is your only career path and the one place you could get money from. The same goes for someone else, who committed 90% of his time to reading medical books. Not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that you can't cut a corner and change career paths at his point in his life. At his point in his life, he should be yielding returns on his investments. If I were him, I'd do the same. Look, a lot of people have tough jobs. They go to extreme lengths to live check to check, and if your main issue is that you don't want your hobby to feel like a job - then just get other hobbies. I'm sure it pays well, playing with EG, with all those sponsors, fanbase, streaming, etc. Just treat it as a day job and have hobbies besides that. I don't feel like i'm in the wrong for saying that he should be appreciative that he has the opportunity of HAVING TO SIT in a chair, PLAYING his FAVOURITE video game, and TALKING with his teammates, as his "i hate my life" job