For some professional skateboarders, retirement can ironically be the scariest part of their career. How do you live without your name on a board? How do you translate a kickflip back lip into real-world skills? Shit, how do you explain the 20-year resume gap?
With no clear answer to many of these questions, oftentimes pro skaters are left white-knuckling, trying to stretch a career to the max in fear of getting lost in the beyond. However, it doesn’t have to be that way.
Moving on can be empowering.
Take it from Joey Brezinski, who recently posted about his transition from skating full-time to a simpler life as a USPS mailman.
In more ways than one, it’s motivating, and to celebrate Joey’s new lease on life, we followed him on his paper route, hitting some curbs along the way and appreciating that moving on from pro skateboarding isn’t something you should be ashamed of, it’s a start to something new.
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April 6, 2026 8:58 pm
Not Everyone Becomes Tony Hawk…But We Definately Need Great USPS Employees…This Man Can Deliver Mail…With A Kick Flip..Any Time At My Home…
April 6, 2026 11:26 pm
I wouldn’t mind a job I understand I could make it just waiting is not cool I guess, just keep skating is all I hear in my career
April 7, 2026 8:06 am
Joey brizinski Daniel Espinoza both got done dirty by the industry. The skate board industry is a garbage ass corporate machine. Everything we hate skateboarding has become. Skate shops lined with rows of Nike and what ever brand is hip at the time, no small upcoming brands. Then skateboarders don’t go to mom
And pop shops instead it’s zumiez. I hope skateboarding collapses in on its self. More pro models for lil Wayne.
April 7, 2026 9:00 am
As we age we must evolve to pay the bills and in my case change careers several times . And like me return to something I learned in my early teens so I could be my own boss. C K