Alternate career paths

HueyLong

Banned
Phillip Barton Key as US Volunteer Officer
Robert E. Lee as politican or engineer
George B. McClellan remains railroad administrator
Joshua Chamberlain Jr. as career soldier
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as career soldier
Andrew Carnegie as ward boss
Frederick Augustus (Douglas) gets a job as a merchant marine
 

pacifichistorian

Banned
Alcuin said:
Napoleon Bonaparte as a Midshipman in the British Navy
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:eek: Adm Bonaparte?
Alcuin said:
Isaac Asimov as a biochemist.
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Did you know, early on, BU (IIRC) tried to deny him tenure 'cause he wasn't publishing enough?:p

More on point,:rolleyes: Nimitz tried to get into West Point, but all the slots were filled, but his Congressmen got him into Annapolis. And FWI read, he's entitled to be called "von Nimitz"... Suppose his family hadn't emigrated from Germany. C. W. von Nimitz, head of BdU in WW2? General von Nimitz in NAfr?

Jackie Stewart was an Olympic-caliber skeet shooter & only missed qualfying due to racing conflicts. Suppose he'd quit racing? F1'd probably not be as safe today...:eek::eek:

Jeri Zimmerman (Ryan), better known as Seven of Nine, studied molecular biology. Suppose she'd pursued it? Can you picture her playing...er, being Dr. Seven?
 

Mark E.

The Dean said:
Rod Stewart trialled for the Scotland football team how would that have affected the development of popular music in the 60s and 70s especially if one M. Jagger had followed his first career choice as a physical education teacher as well.
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Singer Sheryl Crow received her degree in education from the U. of Mo. in the mid-eighties and could have ended up teaching school near her hometown of Kennett, MO. In the cases of Sheryl Crow and Rod Stewart, you only have alternate careers for the performers and the overall direction of music would not have been dramatically different. Now, in the case of Mick Jagger, that's a different story.
 

BomberJacket

Paul McCartney has said that if he didn't become a songwriter, he wanted to be a teacher. Headmaster McCartney?

On the same note: Gilliam, Idle, Chapman, Cleese, Jones, Palin and Lennon. John Lennon becomes the "grand old man" of Monty Python instead of rhythm guitar for the Beatles.
 

stalkere

Banned
Jimmy Buffet the Airline Pilot

Ronald Reagan remains in the film industry

Hedy LaMarr openly pursues her engineering career

Robert Heinlein doesn't get TB and stays in the Navy - or remains in Engineering and doesn't go back to writing after WWII

Richard Nixon becomes a talk show host in 1966 after giving up politics.

Patton is KIA in WWI
 

Superftagn

stalkere said:
Jimmy Buffet the Airline Pilot

Ronald Reagan remains in the film industry

Hedy LaMarr openly pursues her engineering career

Robert Heinlein doesn't get TB and stays in the Navy - or remains in Engineering and doesn't go back to writing after WWII

Richard Nixon becomes a talk show host in 1966 after giving up politics.

Patton is KIA in WWI
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Reagan later wins an Oscar for his performance as the President of the United States in a film about a nuclear war breaking out between the US and the Soviet Union.
 

Standard X

Francisco Cojuanco said:
Richard Nixon, the Harvard professor.
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Or better yet, Richard Nixon as a G-Man for the FBI, it almost happened in 1937 when he filled out an application for the job and had a good interview with the Special Agent-in-Charge for the southern California area. The Special Agent recomended to Hoover that he hire Nixon and Hoover was about to give the green light when suddenly he had to eliminate the position due to budget cuts; and the rest is history.:(
 

Dathi THorfinnsson

Sam said:
Gauss, linguist. We'd lose a lot, but it's a perfect fit.
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Indeed. However, we'd probably have the concept of Indo-European and language families sooner.

And, heck, Gauss didn't do anything in math that 14 other genius level mathematicians couldn't have done!
 
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