How many of you people actually have real jobs?

[runner4life7]

I also want to be a teacher someday, but not till im older and have aquired a fair amount of money, maybe thats greedy, but I want to be comfortable and teaching isnt the way to go. But I do want to teach high school math and coach cross country and track and I feel that will be my best way to truly give back.

[jedi]

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I also want to be a teacher someday, but not till im older and have aquired a fair amount of money, maybe thats greedy, but I want to be comfortable and teaching isnt the way to go. But I do want to teach high school math and coach cross country and track and I feel that will be my best way to truly give back.

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This is what I want to do as well. I have a great engineering job right now and I'm good at what I do, but I would love to teach and coach if I ever hit it big in the WSOP.

[Irieguy]

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You people all make me sad. Seriously.

I've never heard so much whining in my life about such great jobs, pretty much all of which guarantee a nice income and pretty much all of which provide you with much more job satisfaction than the vast majority of the world gets sewing shoes together and flipping burgers.

I mean, gimme a break. Would I rather pursue a career in a cutting edge field, around real people, doing important work, or would I rather sit around repeating the same menial task over and over every hour, eight times an hour, devoid of personal contact? hmmm, that's a tough one. Lazy bastards.

And the real problem is that I know just what most of you are like because I knew a lot of people just like you when I was in university. So busy cramming and studying so you could get your stellar marks, so you could get your big jobs, and all the while I was actually enjoying school because I actually liked what I was studying. Maybe it wasn't so smart picking your careers based solely on how much money you were gonna someday make when it turns out you hated it all along. Next life, try doing something that you believe in.

Regards
Brad S

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Great post, Brad.

I have a lot of thoughts on this topic, and actually just wrote a long reply that I decided not to post.

Instead, I will just say this- the meaning of life is not ellusive. We all know it, and it has been written in every language since the beginning of time. I have a few favorite versions, of course:

"Be excellent to each other, and party on"
-Bill S. Preston, esq. and Ted Theodore Logan

"Make yourself comfortable and ride it out."
-The Yugoslavian

So the problem lies not in finding the answer, but rather in knowing what to do with it.

Once you understand what being excellent to each other, and making yourself comfortable really means... you will understand the role of a "job" and you will want one.

Irieguy

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Most of them are a bunch of 20-whatever-year-olds. It's what they do.

[Isura]

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You people all make me sad. Seriously.

I've never heard so much whining in my life about such great jobs, pretty much all of which guarantee a nice income and pretty much all of which provide you with much more job satisfaction than the vast majority of the world gets sewing shoes together and flipping burgers.

I mean, gimme a break. Would I rather pursue a career in a cutting edge field, around real people, doing important work, or would I rather sit around repeating the same menial task over and over every hour, eight times an hour, devoid of personal contact? hmmm, that's a tough one. Lazy bastards.

And the real problem is that I know just what most of you are like because I knew a lot of people just like you when I was in university. So busy cramming and studying so you could get your stellar marks, so you could get your big jobs, and all the while I was actually enjoying school because I actually liked what I was studying. Maybe it wasn't so smart picking your careers based solely on how much money you were gonna someday make when it turns out you hated it all along. Next life, try doing something that you believe in.

Regards
Brad S

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word.

[the shadow]

Good thread.

I'm still another lawyer. Sure there're times it sucks, but that's true of almost everything, including playing poker. In fact, much of what I like about the law is pretty much the same as what I like about poker. It boils down to winning's better than losing, but don't get too caught in the results.

The Shadow

[wuwei]

I don't know where I fit in here. I do have a job, but these days it doesn't really require 40 hours a week and it doesn't require pants. Lately, the amount of golf and poker I play during the week might outnumber the hours I put in doing real work. I'll be losing this job sometime in the next 5 months, whenever they get around to completing the sale of the company. This will be a perfect opportunity to "go pro" if I wanted, but honestly that life has little appeal to me. I would much rather get into the field I spent 6 years studying, but haven't used since graduate school. We'll see if I can make that happen...

Until then, poker will continue to be some nice side action. It may pay the bills for a little while when I'm searching for work, but that's all I'm really looking for at this point.

[yoadrians]

Have 2 jobs - stay-at-home dad during the day (7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.), copy editor at a newspaper at night (4-12 a.m.).

Play SNGs when I get home at night, and when my son goes down for his 2-hour nap around noon.

[drapes]

So, you could say that, in your experience, having children in NO WAY IMPACTED YOUR LIFE NEGATIVELY, right?

You could say that right here? In big letters?

And that HAVING A BABY MADE YOU AN EVEN BETTER POKER PLAYER, right?

These are all very true things, am I right? *wink wink*

[microbet]

I am a better at poker now that I have kids, than I was before I had them.

Hope that helps.