Real jobs suck (no content)

[moot]

Or at least mine does.

I unload trucks for Lowe's hardware at 4am. It's a summer job. I got my paycheck for 2 weeks of work (60 hours) and after taxes it was $330.

Then I reloaded at Party and made 140 plus the 100 bonus for about 3 days of work (7 hours or so). $240.

$330/60hrs
$240/7hrs (sitting on my ass setting my own schedule)

That makes me sad. The ease of low limit poker combined with reloads has really screwed up my view of the value of a dollar.

And yes, I know that eventually $240 isn't gonna mean much either, but as a 19 year old working in the summer it's a pretty nice set-up. I hate my real job, but apparently I need actual "work experience."

And don't worry, no, I'm not gonna "drop out of school to play poker."

[silkyslim]

I didn't get a job this summer to play poker and variance sucks. Also, no one gives me any peace, always asking favors because they think i have a lot of free time. at least with a real job no one bugs you and the pay is steady.

[Wizard0965]

Hehehe. My story is about the same except a little worse I feel. I work 20hrs/week at 8.55/hr after having graduated college with two degrees in biological fields. Job core sucks so poker helps to sustain. Least you still have school to fall back on, I just got my ass handed to the real world. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[pryor15]

i know what you mean. i'm working on a big editing project that's paying me $500 (about $2k below what i would charge, but it's for a friend) and it's kinda hard sometimes to talk myself into the 70 or so hours it's gonna take when i make $200 some nights on the one hour break i give myself.

[Greg J]

God I wish I had internet poker when I was yr age.

[Kumubou]

The amount of money you can build up doing low-level poker and casino bonus whoring is mind-blowing at times.

In a way, I have no idea where any of it came from (it sure as hell is not from playing -- I have been breakeven at .5/1 for about 15,000 hands now. Whee?)

Heh, I had nearly the exact same job you did (except I was working Bath and Electrical for 20-30 hours a week at Lowe's), and I have more money in my NETeller account now than I made all of last summer (and my bank account right now, yikes). -_-;;

I could never do this for a living, though. The variance would make me go grab a butterknife and try to kill Superman.

-K

[Bodhi]

been there.

[Shillx]

$240/7hrs

I'd be a rich kid if this were the case. Poker is really fun when you are winning $$$ but it is torture when you are breaking even.

[Aaron W.]

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Then I reloaded at Party and made 140 plus the 100 bonus for about 3 days of work (7 hours or so).

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So you earned $140 in 7 hours playing Party $.50/1? That's 20BB/hour (even if you were 6-tabling, that's a huge upswing across all 6 tables at once since 3BB/hour -- not 3BB/100 -- is a little high). Keep this run in mind when you hit the unhappy side of variance.

With real jobs, you never end up with less money than when you started.

[Bradyams]

I wish I could find a god damn summer job, and because I can't I'm stuck playing poker all day.

I make more playing poker, but variance sucks, and sitting inside all day sucks.

[Jaran]

I'm in the same boat my friend. And it does suck. Not to mention when you have to pull money out of your br to pay bills, you don't move up. So far this summer, I've had to pull out enough money that I should be at 2/4, but I'm still slogging away at .5/1. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

-Jaran

[Aaron W.]

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I'm in the same boat my friend. And it does suck. Not to mention when you have to pull money out of your br to pay bills, you don't move up. So far this summer, I've had to pull out enough money that I should be at 2/4, but I'm still slogging away at .5/1. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

-Jaran

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Be thankful that you have the poker money to pay the bills. Moving up the poker ladder is a distant third to having the electricity to play poker and having food for eating... first and second are probably not in that order.

[Deamon2]

I guess it's time to brag about my summer job... I make $17.25/hr as an intern at EMC Corperation, fixing computers in their lab. So what I make at .5/1 doesn't seem like much compared to my bi-weekly check. I've been at .5/1 so long it's killing me

[Rasputin]

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With real jobs, you never end up with less money than when you started.


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Yeah but you end up with a little less of your soul every day.

Real jobs suck throbitudinally.

[Aaron W.]

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With real jobs, you never end up with less money than when you started.


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Yeah but you end up with a little less of your soul every day.

Real jobs suck throbitudinally.

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Learn table selection.

[hicherbie]

i can make stupid decisions all day at work and still end up a huge winner. jobs win.

[shadow29]

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I guess it's time to brag about my summer job... I make $17.25/hr as an intern at EMC Corperation, fixing computers in their lab. So what I make at .5/1 doesn't seem like much compared to my bi-weekly check. I've been at .5/1 so long it's killing me

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/brag I'm making $25 an hour. Not building a resume, however. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[bottomset]

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$240/7hrs

I'd be a rich kid if this were the case. Poker is really fun when you are winning $$$ but it is torture when you are breaking even.

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yep and sometimes you get to play a bunch of HU against a better player, during a rough stretch which really ends up helping your game, and the breakeven stretchs eventually end and the game is fun

my other hobby is dropping money at 2+2tables, sometimes I focus, I do pretty good when i do that, but a good chunk of the time I mess around, and leave 15-30less rich

[bottomset]

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I'm in the same boat my friend. And it does suck. Not to mention when you have to pull money out of your br to pay bills, you don't move up. So far this summer, I've had to pull out enough money that I should be at 2/4, but I'm still slogging away at .5/1. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

-Jaran

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if i had an extra grand of BR I'd stake you, but sadly I'm too lazy to play enough 3/6 to build up

[newfant]

This takes me back to the days when I used to work at a sawmill during my high school summers. One time I almost got my arm cutoff. I made $5/hour and stacked wood all day. F that.

[Jaran]

'preciate it, dude. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

-Jaran

[kapw7]

My real job pays the equivalent of $90000. Not a huge amount but I get health insurance, pension etc, I get to meet real poeple, I am doing something that I find exciting (most of the times) and useful for society, I get respect outside work and the personal satisfaction that I have achieved something. If I hvd to play poker 40hours a week in front of a computer instead I would rather shoot myself.