darn, unc! ya beat me to it. 
no urchins in my neck of the woods, either.
My family were into designing nuclear reactors, but after I did my stint working with the engineers and operators designing Darlington (I was brought on to try to smooth out the operations manual tech writing process), I moved about a thousand miles away.
There is an argument to be made that I am a professional athlete.
I teach Taekwondo and get paid for it.