Re: Job That Couples Well w/ Online Poker On The Side?
 

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The answer to that is obvious.
Be a substitute teacher. They can practically pick their own hours.

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

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More or less socially acceptable them being a fulltime poker pro?


The thought of getting a "real" job still scares me [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Something that doesn't involve computers, or atleast never involves the mouse would be best. No need to hurt shoulders and carpals even more.

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Something that doesn't involve computers, or atleast never involves the mouse would be best. No need to hurt shoulders and carpals even more.


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I disagree. The idea is to play poker while at the job's computer, and to do the few job tasks as a subroutine on a low priority interrupt basis.

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All,

High school teacher is the wrong answer.

College professor is the right answer.

Helping,

Caldarooni

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I teach high school - its perfect. Lots of time off.
Summers to play full time.

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I'm a corporate instructor, lots of time in a hotel and lots of "working from home" [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Agree. Along those lines, why don't you consider grad school? There is roughly zero accountability, and depending on your field, you can be paid fairly well to enroll (~$40k/year).

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Agree. Along those lines, why don't you consider grad school? There is roughly zero accountability, and depending on your field, you can be paid fairly well to enroll (~$40k/year).

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Um, don't go to gradschool because you want to supplement poker. Bad idea. Gradschool is very time intensive, at least at the solid schools. I am at a top ten (in my field) and I maybe have 10 hours a week tops to play poker.

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

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Well then that indicates that OP wants to do something that is up a different set of standards than I was previously envisioning.

I was in my 30's with a degree from a decent school (Miami U. in Ohio) and was dealing blackjack for almost a year.
There was another dealer there in his 40's or 50's with a PhD from Wisconsin (smokers and non-smokers are in different rooms during the breaks...so I didn't get to know him very well so don't know his whole story).



I understand why you would feel pressure from others that you should be more successful in your career.
But, really, why should you/I care??
If others have a problem with it then it's THEIR problem.


Again though, I do understand where this kind of pressure comes from.
My girlfriends parents (from South America) just have a picture that EVERYONE with a college degree in the U.S. should easily be successful so why was this guy dealing cards at a casino (and now playing online-poker full-time)??



Anyway, probably not for you, but for others out there....BJ dealer worked great for me.
If it's a low-traffic casino then you might be able to get out early on virtually every shift if you wanted to.

you sign an 'early-out sheet'...on swing-shift they bring in more dealers than they need 'just in case' they have a bigger than expected night.
Around 10p or 11p on a Monday they will start closing tables and sending dealers home in the order in which they signed the sheet.

It was perfect for me...if I had a couple bad weeks at poker then I could put in full 40 hours weeks most of the time (or even overtime on weekends if I wanted) and when I was running well I could give-away a shift and/or sign-out early a lot of the time and bring my hours down to 20 or so (giving me more time for poker at home obviously).
It was the perfect type of situation to get in my hours and experience at poker while also keeping steadier income coming in to balance out the downswings.

Eventually they had a bit of a dealer shortage as the low-paying casinos are always losing their dealers to places that pay more (have a higher toke-rate) and they tried to make me a full-timer which is about the time I decided to do poker full-time instead (and could always go back to dealing if it went badly).

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I am a receptionist.

Every 15 minutes or so I answer the phone and transfer the line which takes roughly 5 seconsd per caller.

I do about 45 mintues of actual work throughout the day besides answering the phones.

The other 7 hours I screw around on the internet. I used to play poker pretty much 7 hours straight every day but I sort of burned out and only play 2-3 hours a day then spend the rest of the time on 2+2. Because of inturruptions I can't really play more than 2 tables at a time just in case I need to sit out for a few hands.

The lifestyle sucks, I feel like crap every day I leave the office not really doing anything with my life but whatever, it's only temporary.

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I wouldn't mind a physical labour job. You get to relieve some physical stress and get outside more often. I've been a maintenance worker for a property management company, a bus boy at a busy restaurant during the weekdays only, and a mover for a large moving company (which had its perks, seeing as we only moved offices, and those companys leave a lot of valuable garbage behind when moving).

The bussing position was probably the best for poker. My shift schedule was 10-4 M-Th, and I received tips (which nearly doubled my minimum wage salary). I'd be able to play nights as weekends as necessary, and see my friends on most of those days. I got good exercise; the restaurant was always busy, and I had to move fast. You get meet a lot of interesting people, both clients and co-workers, and I found I had enough time to clear my head when I wasn't in a great mood (great for those days where you tilted hard the night before and need to recoup before the next session).

EDIT: I just re-read OP and realized that this probably doesn't fall into the category of "socially respectable". Try being a website or software developer on the side; but it sucks to be on the computer day-in day-out. It's too easy to have poker consume you full-time.