Very few ever walk away willingly. Either the government sits you on the bench, or you get smoked. That shyt changes you, they say the streets don't love you back and thats true…but you love the street with everything, and it takes pieces of you with it, year after year….It corrodes you, the money and the rush... and you can't walk away. Hard to focus, can get very blurry and borderline nihlistic. Like a lot of professions, real estate, stock trading, whatever…you incur losses, you try to cover the losses, you get back to where you want, and you decide to roll the dice again…. Of course, there are exceptions but, for hardly anyone, is there every any 'way' out, like business and feel good happy endings.
Almost with out exception, everyone I ever knew, who was anyone, either got benched, then decided to sit out….or went right back to it, as soon as they touched down.