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Money doesnt make you happier nor is it a way of measuring skill in any particular field.

If I had the option of playing poker 15 hours a week for $50k a year playing 1-2 tables online or live or making over $250k a year playing 6-10 tables for 50 hours a week I'd take the first option.

There is just more to life than making money/working/playing poker.

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many teachers at top universities are freaking millionaires or close to it due to book sales/ patents/ making $500+/hr doing consulting.

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Great post Gabe. Hijack was unfortunate.

Krishan

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Bike .. you need a reality check. Believe or not ... most people who are teachers in business at universities if had the opportunity/money/desire/drive would be doing something different if they could. I'm trying to be a prick here just telling you that people work for $$ in life .... If most people had the choice of doing whatever they want when they wake up... Many would be doing something different.. People have obligations kids/family/bills/etc. these things are important. The reason people get paid for jobs is because nobody else would do it for a dollar less.. that is economics supply/demand.

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I teach languages at a university in Trento, Italy part time. I could earn 5 times the money that I earn working in the business sector here but I would have to work more than 5 times the hours that I presently work to get that money.

Plus I would have to work with the usual bunch of pricks in the business world, where instead I work in a lovely campus with great bunches of kids with whom I have made of lot of valuable friendships.

Plus I have a lot of free time which I use to travel, play poker, snowboard in the mountains where I live, read, enjoy life.

I could be doing something different as you say, but why on earth would I want to? I'm not going to berate you but I will say that I do feel sorry for you. I can only hope that one day you will look back on what you've written here and sigh with relief that you managed to break out of the life-rut which you are presently in.

By the way, the vast majority of people in a life-rut of this type are in denial so they have no idea that the way that they think and view the world might have something wrong with it. Which makes breaking out of the rut extremely difficult. Good luck.

[mplspoker]

There is a reason you are broke.

[mplspoker]

I'll be perfectly honest dude.. Either job you weren't doing very well... whats the difference .. your right??!!

[mplspoker]

You don't have a fnning clue.. 500 bucks an hour.. give me a break... you live in a dream world i live in reality....

[Xtian11]

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(d) your retarted.

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(e) you're

[mplspoker]

Dude. Nice to here how you "could" do this and that, but honestly.... all it is is conversation... Until you actually jump into the real world you haven't seen/done anything.. no offense...

[mplspoker]

no i live in reality... 500/hr give me a break....