[MicroBob]

I don't have too many people asking me directly how much I make...but the one's who know I play poker, for the most part, are going to be the one's who I wouldn't have a problem with asking me.


There are some scenarios though where i just don't want to declare that 'online-poker pro' is my occupation in the first place and I say something lame like "I work from home." or something like that.
I've struck up conversations with players at the table at B&M and the occasional 'what do you do?' comes up and I just don't like it.


I'm on my 3rd different adult-league soccer team this spring (my teams keep falling apart). It's the 3rd straight team where I haven't mentioned what I do. I just don't want to go there. We're having scrimmages and pracitces now and are pretty friendly and some of the guys have talked about their jobs. It's a good group of guys...but they're all bartenders or working in a mostly-typical office-job or something....and I don't really want the attention that 'being the guy who plays poker for a living' typically generates so I'm kind of staying quiet about it. At least for now....if I get more comfortable later and someone asks and i feel like divulging because the moon is full or something then I will.


As far as others who know what I do asking how much I make I will sometimes say straight-up...or sometimes I'll just say that I'm making significantly more than I did at my last job PLUS I get to work from my home in my underwear if I want....whenever I damn well feel like it.
Mentioning how much I enjoy getting to 'work' in something that I enjoy doing and the flexibility of schedule tends to take the emphasis off how much I make.

But usually the ones who ask how much I make are also the ones who will be generally happy for me because they also know I spent several years making less money then almost anyone out there.