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Hey, first of all this is a boring story of a personal crisis I went through and how tennis helped, so don't read it unless you want to get bored. Maybe someone had a similar problem and may tell us their story as well. Well I'm a male who just turned 28, I used to play a lot of tennis when I was a kid and into my late teens, I was fairly good. One day while playing soccer I dislocated my left shoulder so I had to stop playing tennis for a while (I'm a righty but I have a two handed backhand). After that I went to college at a different city (tennis was very expensive there) so I basically only played every other weekend, sometimes every other month! After college I got a job at a big (blue) IT company and have been working there since. Once I started my professional life I started up with bad eating habits, absolutely no exercise (the closest exercise I got was watching tennis on TV, maybe moving my fingers to play xbox), I got kinda fat (I'm 1.81m and was weighing 110kg, and used to weigh about 80kg) and I felt nothing was motivating me, wasn't feeling well, got the flu all the time, etc, etc. So one day I decided I needed to change my life health wise, so I started eating healthier food, salads, fruit, grains, natural stuff, etc. I started feeling healthier, had more energy and I lost some weight so I started to jog a little, I lost more weight and I decided to join a local tennis club (now I had a job that could pay for tennis courts 
), it's been like 3 years since those "dark times" and now days I weigh 85kgs, totally changed what I eat and play tennis about 5 or 6 times a week at 6am, I mean at 6am! I used to only wake up at 6am if there was an earthquake or something. Tennis changed a lot in me, I was lazy and only liked to party, nothing motivated me. Today I consider myself happy, not lazy at all even though I still like to party from time to time (that's also healthy, if you don't drink!). The thing is that I've been dreaming for a couple of months of the possibility of making a living from tennis, I mean my job is ok and although I travel from time to time (I take my racquets with me everywhere) and I have to visit client's etc, it's a desk job. My dream would be to live of tennis some way or another, I mean I know it can't be playing or teaching (I live in a third world country, tennis doesn't pay well), but maybe be owner of a club or a store or something... Some of you reading this probably have $$ income from tennis, what do you do? Do you think this is crazy, should I just keep playing at 6m and keep my desk job? :-?
), it's been like 3 years since those "dark times" and now days I weigh 85kgs, totally changed what I eat and play tennis about 5 or 6 times a week at 6am, I mean at 6am! I used to only wake up at 6am if there was an earthquake or something. Tennis changed a lot in me, I was lazy and only liked to party, nothing motivated me. Today I consider myself happy, not lazy at all even though I still like to party from time to time (that's also healthy, if you don't drink!). The thing is that I've been dreaming for a couple of months of the possibility of making a living from tennis, I mean my job is ok and although I travel from time to time (I take my racquets with me everywhere) and I have to visit client's etc, it's a desk job. My dream would be to live of tennis some way or another, I mean I know it can't be playing or teaching (I live in a third world country, tennis doesn't pay well), but maybe be owner of a club or a store or something... Some of you reading this probably have $$ income from tennis, what do you do? Do you think this is crazy, should I just keep playing at 6m and keep my desk job? :-?
