Most of our panel have chosen a career to suit hurling.. a full-time job is not my plan WEXFORD SUCCESS THE PRIORITY FOR CHIN

LEE CHIN says he has no immediate plans to resume full-time employment as he continues to devote his energies to the Wexford cause.

Chin (right) is one of a number of high profile inter-county stars, along with the likes of Kerry footballers Darran O’sullivan and Kieran Donaghy, who have sidelined their day jobs at times in order to help maximise their potential on the field.

A barber by trade, Chin hasn’t worked full-time for three years though keeps himself ticking over by helping out with the family business, a Chinese restaurant in Wexford, and various sponsorship partners he has.

“Well I haven’t really got a limit on it at the moment,” he said when asked as to how long he will continue in his current vein. “I’d obviously be looking at doing something down the line, I just don’t know what that is yet.

“I feel that when I get into something I’m going to be doing it for the long haul instead of for a year or two.

“I’m really kind of waiting for that opportunity or something for myself to think of, something in the line of business that I’ll just jump into or do myself in my own time.

“Three of my main sponsors would be

Fulfil Nutrition, I recently signed with

O’neills sportswear and also with a sports drink in the UK, ipro

Sport, so they’d be the main sponsors that I work a lot with.

“I am on a retainer with them. It’s not something I like talking about in terms of it’s going to make a living for me. We just work together on a lot of things. I enjoy working with them.”

Chin, who was speaking at the launch of Leinster GAA’S Beko Club Bua awards, admits that combining a day job with his hurling career would impact on his performances.

“For me anyway, I think it would be hard to do. I see a lot of the lads in with the panel at the moment, a lot of them are not really affected by work that much. “A lot of them have jobs they’ve chosen, the careers, it almost suits hurling as such. “A lot of people are taking the teaching route and a lot of people are taking other routes but I think the jobs that they essentially end up with, they understand that it’s not going to have too much of an effect on them physically or mentally.

“They take those kind of jobs, to accommodate their hurling. I don’t think there’s any lad in our panel that works on a construction site that’s a seven to four or five job in the day, of hard labour.

“There’s no one really that I’m involved with in Wexford that does anything like that.”

Recently, details of a GAA report, ‘Towards 2034’, emerged with the controversial recommendation that players be paid an allowance down the line.

Chin added: “I don’t think it’s a bad idea. This is not our job, it’s our hobby and we love it.

“The GAA was never built on the fact that players get paid and everyone that goes into the game understands that.

“In the future, if there were players to be compensated for their efforts, I don’t think any player would object to it.”