Would you mention poker in a job interview?

[Duke]

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I cash out $500 when I hit $1800 in my bankroll to avoid temptation. Good players manage bankroll and betting this way.

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This has to be a joke to emphasize that employers have no understanding of poker.

~D

[bigpooch]

Yes, but if you want to hide it, especially if you spend
quite a bit of time on it, you'll be doing some foolish
things to avoid exposure. Just be who you are, and if a
employer is closed-minded to poker as a game requiring
substantial skill, maybe you don't want to work for him! I
definitely wouldn't!

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

I'm a poker player, and I wouldn't hire you.

Then I'd go work for your competitor and your action would end up costing you money, since I'd close the accounts the guy you hired instead of me couldn't. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Nate tha' Great]

I'm sure that risk-taking behavior correlates positively with success in certain occupations (say, marketing or investment banking) and negatively with it in others (say, accounting or air traffic controlling). Without knowing what field you're involved in, it's hard to take your opinion too seriously. You are a bit of a hypocrite, though.

p.s. All the cool kids smoke.

[Still the Spank E]

The "straight" world is still in need of a great deal of educating on the subject of "the difference between players and degenerate gamblers." There are certain places and certain circumstances under which you might be okay to bring this up, but knowing when it would be safe is probably itself as tricky to negotiate as overcards when rags flop (D'ya like my poker analogy? Pretty clever, eh?)

Seriously, the rest of the world IS slowly coming to understand the game the way we do, while everybody else (my father, for example) doesn't (yet?) get that, compared to everyone else in the casino, the poker players are Bobby Fishers and Gary Kasparovs (many of us, anyway), with absolutely nothing in common with the people pulling on slot machine handles, putting $500 on red, or letting it ride on a hard 8. I wouldn't bring it up.

[RollaJ]

Id be leary of hiring anyone who plays blackjack or slots, now there is someone who could ruin your business!!

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

You probably would. I think a good poker player, who knew how to manage bankroll and take advantage of the other players' mistakes, all the while managing their own emotions so as to avoid tilt would make an excellent employee. But the job interview process is one where many apply and you really don't get to know the person well. You have to minimize risk, and my belief is that in the great "Universe of all Poker Players" the risk is greater than in the pool of non-players.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

I am a clinical psychologist. I have one employee, an office manager who handles all the administrative and financial aspects of my business. I want someone rock-solid and although many poker players (and I suspect most 2+2ers) are, people choosing to gamble AS A GROUP I beleive to be of greater risk. As to being a hypocrite, this is not an unreasonable statement. Understand that the qualities I prize in an employee may differ from my own abilities. I tend, for example, to be disorganized and would never hire an office manager who was disorganized as I am.

[Vehn]

Obviously since 95% of "poker players" are long term losers, and many of them addicted gamblers, anyone who would hire someone who mentions that would be pretty dumb.

/end of thread

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

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The funny thing is, I doubt employers are bothered by the moral implications of poker itself, they just don't want to hire a degenerate loser who will steal from the company to pay gambling debts.

Regards,
Brad S

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THis is the real issue, and the reason I would be disinclined to hire a "gambler."