If you are just starting in AH there are some things you need to know if you are to become a dedicated career player.
#1 Marriage issues: If you are married and you have just set forth on your AH career save yourself some time and get a good divorce lawyer now to get proceedings under way. This will save you probs later in your career. Divorce courts when left to your spouse`s lawyer will eat into your quality playing time.
#2 Job/home issues: If you have a job, quit now before it is too late. Sell all articles of furniture with the exception of your puter, desk and frig. You can apply the income from the sale for needed items such as AH fees, beer and TV dinners. This is what you will survive on from this point forward.
#3 Social life issues: None. You will have no social life other than the occasional visit to an adult website while climbing.
#4 Attitude issues: If your a reasonably nice guy ... get over it quick or you will be eaten alive like a chicken at a fox farm. Practice until perfected your punching screaming, kicking and whineing. Holding your breath until blue here will only cause frustation and distract you from your ultimate goals.
Most of all learn what it takes to produce quality whines on demand.
#5 Career brotherhood: This will come natural after a while . When perfected you should be able to spot a fellow career AH in Wal-Marts on white sale days. He will have a glazed over look in his eyes that is easy to spot. He will be the one makeing zoom and Vroom noises that will draw strange looks from non AHers. Career AHers will have soft hands with the exception of the trigger finger which will be somewhat disformed. He will also have a calloused posterior. ( On this point take my word, don`t check)
#6 Confusion factor: Don`t let it confuse you that you will run into a few players with normal lifestyles. These are casual players that are trying to hang on to the old ways and will never make it in the career world of AH. Cocktail hour players are to be shunned and scorned at every opportunity. They just don`t have the fortitude to go for it.
#7 Health/weight issues: Your body will slowly adjust to your new lifestyle. Do not be tricked by the advice of doctors who keep telling you to excercise. Expect to add 20 to 30 lbs of body weight to get up to career proportions. This will give you a solid seat anchor point when things get really exciting.
This will get you started on a successfull trip down the AH career lifestyle. More pointers will be added as you progress.
