Cammy was on of the first players to make the switch from amateur to full-time rugby, and it came literally, at a price.
"I gave up everything I had to do it," says Cammy, who has called time on his professional career.
"I had a good job and a career working in sports marketing and, when I first became a professional player, I had to take a pay-cut. Not many people make career moves that involve a drop in salary."
After a distinguished career at Edinburgh Reivers, Worcester, Leeds, Glasgow and Scotland Cammy has been linked with a retrurn to coach and play at Watsonians. "I've got a couple of irons in the fire and I'm just waiting for things to progress," is all he will say on that matter. For now, Cammy is actively pursuing some new property development and furniture ventures with a friend
One thing is certain: he won't be going back to his old job in sports marketing because, he says: "Having been a professional player for so long, I think it would be impossible to go back and sit behind a desk all day."
Whatever he chooses to do next, whether it's coaching or business, he will also have to take a pay cut and start at the bottom of the career ladder again
"Playing rugby professionally was just brilliant and I'm just glad I was given the opportunity to do it," he says.
He will miss the game, however. "If I don't go into coaching and go into business, I know I'm going to walk around on Saturday afternoons and think: 'God, something's missing from my life'."
The Herald also looks at the fortunes of Steven Manning, the Ayr and Scotland U21 winger who has been called up to the Glasgow squad a couple of times.
Despite performing well for the U21s this season Steven has been overlooked for the U21s' trip out to the IRB World Championship in Argentina next month. "Getting overlooked has been pretty hard to take," he admits. "I was shocked, but once I'd calmed down, I decided to use it to motivate me to come back a better player."
Steven is doing everything he can to earn a professional deal. As well as employing an agent to search for a deal on his behalf, he also maintains a strict training schedule which finds him in the gym doing weights three times a week, sprint sessions on Wednesdays, squad sessions with Ayr on a Thursday evening, plus matches on a Saturday.
He's also studying to be a PE teacher at Edinburgh University. He has two years left to complete, but even though he is still playing part-time rugby, he is beginning to realise the difficulty in maintaining his educational studies with his sporting ambitions.
"I'm not sure if I got offered a deal right now that I would risk leaving university," says Steven. "I could break my leg and that would be me done. It also depends on money. If you get offered five grand a year (the average wage for an apprentice player) to leave university, it's not really worth it, is it?
"I do want to get a deal," he adds, "but rugby is not the be all and end all. "You have to have a fall-back if it goes wrong."