# If you could choose your career all over again... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-your-career-all-over-again/244525 "2004-05-10T21:52:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-your-career-all-over-again/244525/2 "2004-05-10T22:34:42Z")
I don’t know. I’m really happy with my career right now, I do what I really want. However, I kind of wish I had tried to play professional baseball. I have no idea if I would have made it or not, but I certainly think I would have made my way at least _on_ to a Minor league team. My senior year of high school I was 12-0, 1.52 ERA, 165 K. I had a fastball that topped out around 93 mph. I was contacted by a scout actually, from the KC Royals, but I told them I was enlisting in the Army. Turned me off real fast. By the time I got out of the service and was going for my diploma I was 22, I played in college but an injury I had when I was 20 sort of hindered my ability, I never really threw the same way again. I really don’t consider a career in professional sports a real “life” though, I would consider it a waste of life. But I would have liked to try it for a year or two, just to see if I could have. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-your-career-all-over-again/244525)._