The career expectancy of a pro skater ends at about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old—if that. Tara Lipinski hung on until she was twenty; Evgeni Plushenko topped out at thirty-one. The stiff competition and the high rate of injury makes for a lethal combination that strikes many a career dead before it even finishes lacing up its skates. 

Better grab as much attention and as many endorsement deals as you can, before it's too late and you don't have enough money saved for hip surgery.