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03-25-2005, 09:41 AM
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change in life
so on monday my company is going to be sending out letters to us employess offering us a incentive laden package to get us to leave the company. based on my job title and my seniority i will be walking away with about 25K (half upon departure, the rest spread out monthly over couple of years) and 6 full months of benefits. now i dont dislike this particular job 'that' much, however i dont have any desire to move up and i find the day to day work quite mudane. also the current state of poker makes the move instantly more profitable per hour.
i do have worries of course, namely the future of online poker. i have seen some posts where people are saying enjoy the gravay train, the bots are coming yaadadadadada and others saying that they expect the games to be good for a long time. i am somewhere in the middle. fortunatly, the middle would be enough for me to live pretty well. i also dont have much documented education, most of it was learned either on the streets or by reading books on my own. i was a pretty troublesome kid, and found school to be not only boring but also a hinderance to my fake tough guy lifestyle. as a result i dropped out before the 9th grade and never went back. i ended up taking my GED test once it was available to me and passed with extreme ease. i dunno, somewhat scary move but i feel confident that even if things go horribly wrong that i made a decision to do something i wanted to do and will somehow have to start somewhere and build a carerr. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] pokerjo, i am coming for you [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 
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#2
03-25-2005, 09:50 AM
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Re: change in life
Play poker and take some college on the side. If you have no formal "income" school almost pays for itself if you go to like a community college or something. I found I enjoyed school a lot more after being away from it for awhile. Just a thought. As far as a high school diploma, I know my brother dropped out in like 10th grade, got a diploma online and now has a BA and no one has a clue. I'll look into how/where he got it.
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#4
03-25-2005, 11:30 AM
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Re: change in life
I'm a crappy long term planner but if you convince MaxPower to drive to Foxwoods tomorrow and you show up we can tear up the 20 game.
sounds VERY tempting [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#5
03-25-2005, 12:39 PM
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Re: change in life
i live near boston now, with a car and a driver's license so i'd be interested in going too. sublime don't be wussy if you want to play poker for a living try it. if pokre goes bad which it won't, it won't happen overnight, and even if it does you will not die.
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03-25-2005, 01:06 PM
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Re: change in life
[ QUOTE ]
Damn, from the subject line I thought this post was going to be about menopause. [/ QUOTE ] i thought he was coming out of the closet.
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#10
03-25-2005, 01:22 PM
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Re: change in life
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*gulp* [/ QUOTE ] The "*gulp*" combined with the tongue pic made me feel funny down there.
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