poker friendly job suggestion

[IlliniRyRy]

I work at a proprietary trading firm, I only work about 20 hours a week and even then, there is a ton of downtime. A bunch of guys in our office play poker online, we used to play at work all the time until it got a little out of hand. Trading and poker are unbelievably similar, both entail making decisions based on probabilities and reacting to situations you've seen before. Look up "proprietary trading" in your hometown, if you live near a large city I'm sure there is something.

[MicroBob]

Sorry to tell you this....but if you had breasts you still wouldn't have gotten the job.
You would have received a lot of strange looks though.

[MadMat]

I work on an ISP helpdesk (in the UK) my boss is happy enough for me to play poker during quiet night and weekend shifts as long as I don't miss a call and keep the support email up to date at the same time.
I do however actually "play" from my home machine using a remote desktop, so no gambling goes through the company firewall, and no unauthorised software is installed on my work PC.

Mat

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I work at a proprietary trading firm, I only work about 20 hours a week and even then, there is a ton of downtime. A bunch of guys in our office play poker online, we used to play at work all the time until it got a little out of hand. Trading and poker are unbelievably similar, both entail making decisions based on probabilities and reacting to situations you've seen before. Look up "proprietary trading" in your hometown, if you live near a large city I'm sure there is something.

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Interesting...

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Anything where you can work from home. I do editing from home and it meshes with my poker schedule nicely.

edit: this job *does* include benefits.

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Yea, anything that allows you to work from home would be ideal.

[Alobar]

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Sorry to tell you this....but if you had breasts you still wouldn't have gotten the job.
You would have received a lot of strange looks though.

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naw, a little make up and some heels and I'd be golden [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Dov]

Without reading the whole thread yet, you could become a poker dealer.

If you do it, though, don't do it unless they let you play there and keep your own tips.

That's about as poker friendly as I can think of.

[BillW]

President.

Sometimes people come into my office while I happen to be playing poker and then apologize for interrupting me.

Life is good.

[Lucena]

Overnight Security guard perhaps?

[AncientPC]

Network admin.

You sit around doing nothing until something breaks. As network admin you're privvy to installing and running any programs on any machine.

Plus you get paid decently.