Getting frustrated with the money I make

[Slim Pickens]

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I guess we must live very different lives. I wouldnt get out of bed for $50k a year.

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The second post I read in a week has this s*** in it? Careful throwing stones like that in that glass house of yours.

To the OP: The great thing about a "real" job is absolutely zero variance. You get your check no matter what as long as you still have the job. There are plenty of part-time jobs that should cover your most basic expenses and leave you with enough time to play. I had a writer living in my basement for a while who worked in a chocolate shop part-time to pay the rent and then wrote the rest of the time. If you did the same thing with poker, you'd find yourself faced with the choice of going out tonight or playing poker for bankroll money, not going out tonight or playing poker for rent money. Once you see how much more you can make at the higher levels, it will seem totally worth it to sacrifice a few recreational nights for future implied fun, so your motivation will go up. More fun all around. Point being, get a crappy job to cover rent while you build a bankroll for the higher levels.

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Get a crappy job to cover rent while you build a bankroll for the higher levels.

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Seriously though, get a job where you can play at work. Best of both worlds.

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Seriously though, get a job where you can play at work. Best of both worlds.

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That'll do well until your on the bubble at 4 tables and the boss tells you he needs you in the file room to help him find a file. [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

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future implied fun

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My nomination for awesome new term of the year.


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get a job where you can play at work

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I had a job where I a) worked at home full time b) got 27 days of "TOP" time a year c) had badass bennies d) made right at 6-figures and e) did almost nothing but watch Star Trek all day. They were perfectly happy with me as long as I kept the apps I had helped create running. I quit that job, to drive 45 min. each way and sit in an office all day, because I was bored and my career was going nowhere. I wound up with a much much more boring job for slightly more $$, that is doing even less for my career. I want to hang myself every morning when I get up to drive to work.

This was in June, about 2 months before I discovered poker. I probably could have played poker and gotten paid for it for 1-2 years, and taken all the time off I wanted to go to tournaments, etc.

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I want to hang myself every morning when I get up to drive to work.



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Well that cant be a good sign.