Just wondering if any of you guys either have, or have come close to becoming a profesional musician, artist, sports person etc?? and if you would like to share your stories of how it happened or why it didnt happen?

For me I played a handful of professional football games.

I spent most of my youth career with Bohemians in Prague but never earned a senior game, the closest I got was a spot on the bench in a friendly, as silly as it sounds, I still kept my kit from that match even though I never played, but decided to pursue other career options.

I had a successful trial at a club called Mechelen KV and was over the moon, in my first season I made the bench 7 times without an appearance, and in my second season I played 4 cup games scoring once but no league matches.

I went looking around in europe after that, but the pickings were slim, I got a gig in cyprus after 2 years and 6 senior apperances-all from the bench, totaling about 40-50 minutes I was let go.

After that I had trials in scotland, USA and Macedonia to name a few, I went to Hong Kong where I played for 2 clubs and made 50+ apperances in 3 and a half years, after that I went on holiday to Myanmar and ended up staying for 2 years playing over there, meeting a girl there and coming to Australia, where I have lived since 2010, I spent a year out of the game before playing locally over here, I've got to tell you, your pitches are f-cked to say the least, I had achiles problems from day one, the grounds here are too hard to get used to.

I'd like to say my career was a success, but in the long run it wasnt, I couldn't cut it in europe, but made a few dollars along the way, without football I would not have discovered my wife and australia, or even learned english.

Has anyone had a similar story? Please do share!