[ClearCase_guy]

If the farming goes badly, you can always fall back on a career as a professional baseball player.

From Wikipedia:

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed Three Finger or Miner, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century (known as the "dead-ball era"). Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth (April 17, 1888), Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand,and in the process gained a colorful nickname.

Great pitcher.

[Larry Lucido]

Conversely, pitcher Mark Fidrych died in a farming equipment accident.