Originally Posted by dminor

Good luck to him.

There is an upside to not fulfilling a sport dream though too. Had I fulfilled mine of racing on the AMA Gran National circuit, I could have spent ten years driving cross-country in an aging van hoping to make main event placing so that I could get enough of the pruse to get to the next race in Peoria, where I would hope the factory wrenches would throw a spare piston my way so that I could do a quick tera-down between the heats and semis.

And now I'd probably be twisting wrenches in some shop in Portland, OR or doing confined-space welding in some Seattle ship yard.

As it was, I made my 'second choice' of going to college and getting a degree so that I can work at a desk as a graphic designer and magazine editor and post goofy things on the interwebs a bit. I think it worked out OK.