change in life

sublime · #1 03-25-2005, 09:41 AM

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.

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pokerjo, i am coming for you [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

RustedCorpse · #2 03-25-2005, 09:50 AM

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.

sfer · #3 03-25-2005, 11:26 AM

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.

sublime · #4 03-25-2005, 11:30 AM

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]

theBruiser500 · #5 03-25-2005, 12:39 PM

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.

sfer · #6 03-25-2005, 02:09 PM

Looks like Boom Boom convinced Max to stay home. They're planning on folding a bunch of hands online instead.

BottlesOf · #7 03-25-2005, 02:12 PM

Yea, but you can fold soooooo fast online!

sublime · #8 03-25-2005, 02:16 PM

Looks like Boom Boom convinced Max to stay home. They're planning on folding a bunch of hands online instead.

booo

sublime · #9 03-26-2005, 12:48 PM

so ran what was going on by my mom and sister. both know i have done well at just about anything i have put my mind to, but neither of them like this idea. i cant blame them to be honest, but i wish i could somehow broaden thier knowledge of the subject. they will support me no matter what decision i make, but reluctantly at first i am quite sure [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

bdk3clash · #10 03-25-2005, 01:04 PM

Damn, from the subject line I thought this post was going to be about menopause.