(S30) PT 2 - Alternate History

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Life is made up of choices. What choice did your player make that led them to the ISFL? What would their life be like if they never pursued a career in football? What would they be doing for a living?

When I entered high school, my first athletic priority was cross country. My junior high didn't have a football team and so I'd never really gotten into it. I got talked into joining the football team by a friend of mine who had been a year ahead of my and who said it would be more fun than doing the plain physical education classes in the fall season. So, I think if he hadn't gone to the same highschool or hadn't joined the football team and convinced me, I easily could have passed on football altogether and remained focused on cross country instead. At that point in time I was kinda scrawny and not very good, so I don't know if I would have devoted myself further and gotten good enough to try and keep it up in college or if I would have changed tracks entirely and gone into a less physical direction.
For the non-athletic direction - I majored in economics at Fresno but I thought the accounting courses I took were actually the most interesting. From what I've heard, accounting as a career isn't nearly as fun (especially if you go into tax prep), but that was the direction that stands out to me the most right now. I could also see having gone into more of an abstract direction and getting into financial analysis or modeling. That's something basically every business and government needs and so it could have been a path to a lot of different industries, but I have no idea where I would have started looking without the 8 years of football influence.