Back in 2005 I personally wrestled with this question. For a year now I had worked in the sports supplement industry and loved it. As a former ultra-skinny kid I fell in love with the iron in high school and now as an adult I had to pinch myself at times to remind myself this wasn’t a dream - that I was actually working in the industry that had been such a positive influence on my life. But the industry that I consumed as a teenager through magazines, protein powders and clanging iron was quite a bit different than I had expected. Within a year I learned and experienced some of its hidden flaws.