Brian Rogers finds himself in unchartered waters this week.
Rogers for the first time in his career is wrapping up a fight camp in which that was his lone job - just train and fight. The middleweight on Friday meets Dominique Steele on the main card of Bellator 78 in his home state of Ohio.
But just because he's been able to put a full-time focus on the fight game doesn't mean his mind has been far from his former job.