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Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry
For me personally not going into law. Should have went that route for a career. Always thought it was just the Johhny Cochran or ambulance chaser types instead of all the different avenues you can specialize in.
My great uncle had an even greater one. He was friends with Bud Walton. Bud and Sam would come out and bird hunt all the time at his farm. They wanted him to invest in their new venture a discount store in Arkansas. That discount store became Wal Mart.
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So when did your great uncle eat a bullet? Yikes -- that's a tough blow...
Weirdly, I was an acquaintance of one of the guys who was involved in starting The Players Tribune. It sounded like a neat idea that I never thought would get very far. He wanted me to be an editor for them but at the time it would've been one of those unpaid things that looked like a whole shitload of work in my off-hours as I was starting a family. It would be (essentially) unpaid and I was pretty sure I'd be doing it for a year doing nothing but reading trash articles from minor leaguers because this guy didn't really seem to have any 'ins'. I passed and a couple years later you have HoF players announcing their retirements with them. I guess he ended up locking in with a big agency and got Jeter on board and things progressed pretty quickly from there.
So...yeah. Oops. Probably should've taken him up on that one.