There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
War is by no means something glamorous and I don't think that should ever be...
I don't pay much attention to sports.
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg making home movies as a teenager either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.