By Kevin Jones | Cleveland Browns Staff Writer
Cleveland Browns kicker Billy Cundiff had a more grueling summer than most NFL players.
Every morning he woke up at 6 a.m. to get in a workout and some kicking drills on a local football field near his residence in Phoenix, Az. Afterwards, he would drive his young kids to school or summer camps.
Then started his real work day: a 9-5 internship with CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate company.
Cundiff, 34, got his hands dirty in all aspects of the company – learning about assets, project management, sitting in with the research department and the actual sales of properties. Cundiff marveled how the heavy hitters within CBRE made $20 million deals for office buildings, almost as if it were grocery money.
For those of us who have been interns before, things were chaotic, in an intriguing way. Cundiff often ate lunch in the car, racing to different properties across the Phoenix area. And like all of the best interns, Cundiff began building connections with anyone and everyone at CBRE.
Good luck finding any athlete who envisions their future quite like Billy Cundiff.
“I just don’t want my best days to be behind me,” said Cundiff. “I feel that as a competitive person and as an athlete, you’re always trying to get better. And I just don’t want that attitude to stop once I leave the field.”
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