Re: The 6785th \"I\'m going to play poker for a living\" thread [LONG]
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My advice is to keep your job until you can make a similar amount playing poker, then go pro. If you keep working on your game, soon it can be an excellent imcome source, but you are jumping into this too fast.
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There is more to the equation than just income. I can make approx. 5 times what I make at my new job if I played poker full time (and my job is one of the best you can get out of college)... but I take the job because:
a) variation of daily/weekly/monthly/yearly job requirements and tasks;
b) development of a rich, useful skillset;
c) exposure to interesting people and ideas;
d) the potential to comfortably make as much as NBA basketball players by the time I'm 35, and maintain that multi-million dollar income for the rest of my life.
An office job is waaaaaay less intense on an hour-per-hour basis than playing poker professionally. And guess what? I can still squeeze in 5 or 10 hours of cards in my spare time.
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