Martin Boryczewski: Leaving Work at
Work
Martin
Boryczewski, 29, gave himself four years to make it into
major league baseball. He played for Class A and AA teams
of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers before
giving it up and switching to financial trading.
At Cantor Fitzgerald, he dealt energetically with the
pace and stress -- and at the day's end, he left it
completely behind. "If you'd so much as mentioned work,"
said Brian Hartigan, a friend, "you'd get this look,
like, 'We're not talking about the job.'"
But he would talk about nearly anything else.
"Fly-fishing to Nietzsche," said Mr. Hartigan. "Baseball
to religion. He'd start with something simple and wind up
saying something very deep."
Weekends were sacrosanct. First, he went to
Parsippany, N.J., to see his mother and then to rural
Pennsylvania to his father's place. There, he took the
boat out and went fly-fishing -- his passion. He felt
fully at home in the woods and on the lake. His dream was
to retire early and become a fishing guide in Montana.
Fishing, the woods, wildlife: When he was back in the
city, he could happily discuss them every evening.
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