The announcers said Molly Seidel works as a barista. Her life is going to change like crazy

I dont think it is a necessity that Molly be employed as a barista. Saucony, parents and sister whom she lives with offer unconditional support with the means to do so.

Molly may opt to work at a coffee shop mostly to fulfill a Boston experience to say she did it. Could be to better her skills and gain exposure to machines that they will later buy for home. Also the job may serve some basic need to interact with locals.

At home-home the tradition would be to prepare unique meals that out do the best local restaurant and take pride in having done it themselves. They also take pride in baking cakes and pastries. Coffee, same thing.

Food snobs or hipsters maybe? Her & Izzy having an eclectic set of interests and together being humored by their own intentional quirkiness is probably the better description.

Does she work in New York? If I went there for a latte or coffee I would give her a tip

elite villagers wrote:

I dont think it is a necessity that Molly be employed as a barista. Saucony, parents and sister whom she lives with offer unconditional support with the means to do so.

Molly may opt to work at a coffee shop mostly to fulfill a Boston experience to say she did it. Could be to better her skills and gain exposure to machines that they will later buy for home. Also the job may serve some basic need to interact with locals.

At home-home the tradition would be to prepare unique meals that out do the best local restaurant and take pride in having done it themselves. They also take pride in baking cakes and pastries. Coffee, same thing.

Food snobs or hipsters maybe? Her & Izzy having an eclectic set of interests and together being humored by their own intentional quirkiness is probably the better description.

There’s a nice podcast episode with her in it where she talks about how she almost always needs something to do/to be on her feet or else she gets overly anxious and obsessive, hence her barista job.

Greg wrote:

Does she work in New York? If I went there for a latte or coffee I would give her a tip

True. Its possible a barista in nyc could make more in tips+wages than a pro runner's salary.

Crazy how a degree from Norte Dame gets you a job as a barista.

still here? wrote:

Crazy how a degree from Norte Dame gets you a job as a barista.

Crazy how a degree from (likely inferior University) gets you to incorrectly spell words as simple as Notre Dame.

She doesn't do it for the money. She does it because wants to main some normalcy in her life.

Won’t change much. There’s no money in our sport. Period.

Don’t be naive. $65k for second place. Plus I’m sure a huge bonus from saucony. She’ll make more money in 2020 running than she could with her ND degree.

nahjjjjj wrote:

Won’t change much. There’s no money in our sport. Period.

Wtf are you talking about? Maybe. Maybe she makes $100k for the next 2 years. Then what? Our sport is a joke. There’s no money in it.

I can’t remember exactly but I thought it was also implied in the podcast that she needed the money as her contract was quite low. She definitely talked about how offers went away/reduced after her injury and that’s why she did the extra ND year

She makes enough money to travel to Ethiopia to train about a month ago according to her Instagram.

That seems like a nice vacation.

Rachel1 wrote:

She makes enough money to travel to Ethiopia to train about a month ago according to her Instagram.

That seems like a nice vacation.

The flight would be the biggest expense. And then living costs would be peanuts over there.

cloudcover wrote:

Rachel1 wrote:

She makes enough money to travel to Ethiopia to train about a month ago according to her Instagram.

That seems like a nice vacation.

The flight would be the biggest expense. And then living costs would be peanuts over there.

Yes, that’s why I said she makes enough to travel to Ethiopia.

elite villagers wrote:

I dont think it is a necessity that Molly be employed as a barista. Saucony, parents and sister whom she lives with offer unconditional support with the means to do so.

Molly may opt to work at a coffee shop mostly to fulfill a Boston experience to say she did it. Could be to better her skills and gain exposure to machines that they will later buy for home. Also the job may serve some basic need to interact with locals.

At home-home the tradition would be to prepare unique meals that out do the best local restaurant and take pride in having done it themselves. They also take pride in baking cakes and pastries. Coffee, same thing.

Food snobs or hipsters maybe? Her & Izzy having an eclectic set of interests and together being humored by their own intentional quirkiness is probably the better description.

This is 1000% nonsense

Even if she were not an Olympian she has a bright future of marathon running ahead of her and will make good appearance money running US marathons

no

In a podcast interview from a few weeks ago she said that she's working 2 jobs, the barista job and a babysitting job. Total of 30 hours a week between the two. In that podcast, she also said that Saucony gave her a "living wage", but didn't specify how much.

She said that just running and recovering all day would be too much free time on her hands which is why she is working, but we'll see if she sticks to that now that she is clearly going to get a pay raise from Saucony, in addition to the $65,000 she got in prize money.

As for pros in running, most sponsored athletes just get free clothes and shoes. The next tier of sponsorship, the athletes also get racing travel expenses reimbursed by their sponsor. Then the top level pros actually get a salary, but a lot of them are only getting 40-80k. Low 6 figures are for the very VERY elite runners, like maybe 3 in the country, 5 in the country tops, per event.

Link to the Podcast interview ^ if you want to give it a listen.