Money, money, money...

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Money, money, money…

Fellow 2+2ers,
I have a problem

Pretty much everyone who knows me knows I’m playing poker seriously. Very often when I talk with people I don’t speak to very often poker comes up in the conversation. I don’t mind talking _poker_ with them. It’s just that almost every time the topic of money comes up in conjunction. Most conversations about “poker” go about like this:

- So I hear you’re playing poker. Are you good?
- Yes, I’m good. I better should be since I play it every day.

- Do you make money at it?
- Yes, I better. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be playing every day.

- Well then how much do you make?
- I’m making enough to support myself and buy stuff I want. Enough to keep me satisfied.

- How much?
- I don’t want to get into specifics about numbers.

- How much? Have you made $1.000, $10.000!?
- I told you, I don’t want to get into specifics.

Then there is a short uncomfortable moment before I change the subject.

I really dislike that the topic of money has to come up so often. Before I started poker I almost never had conversations about money. Now, in one form or another, I talk about money several times a week. I’m getting really tired of it. I understand people for being curios, I know would be, but still I’m getting increasingly frustrated every time it comes to a conversation like the one above.

I’ve tried the approach of telling people how much I make too, because I don’t like to be all shady about it. When I hadn’t made very much money yet people usually just got impressed and amazed. The more money I made, the more people seemed to just become offended. So now I tell no one.

Talking money is getting really frustrating. How do you guys handle this? Is it just a normal part of adult-money-making life that I need to get used to? What is your advice on how to handle it?

I don’t want the money I’m making to affect my life in any other way then that I just have money.

Help needed, really