How many of you people actually have real jobs?

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I was gonna say something like this, although maybe with a little less venom.

I just think that a lot of people on this forum -- maybe not as many as they all imagine -- could make a living playing poker. And could probably do pretty well.

But just think about . . . at the end of your life, you don't have all that much to show for it. I am about to enter my first year of law school, with every intention of spending my life "fighting for the little guy," maybe (probably) for less money than I would make playing poker for a living (this is all speculation -- I've not played as many SNGs as some of you folks play in a month, but I'm pretty bright). But I'll have some substance to my life.

Listen, I'm not one of those people who were on the psych forum a few weeks back, talking about how playing poker for a living is evil. And I don't have any particular problem with it. It's a really great time. I just think . . . imagine being 60 years old and sort of reflecting. You won't imagine that you've contributed a great deal.

I guess I just have some delusions at this point of a life where I contribute something important, and I know that I wouldn't do that playing poker. Every once in a while we happen upon a Barry Greenstein, who gives so much of himself to help others through his talent at poker. But for the vast majority of poker players, that is nowhere close to their intentions. And a life where I'm not contributing anything just... isn't the life for me.


On the other hand, I'm thinking poker will make a pretty good part-time job throughout law school. No commute.

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This entire thread makes me sad because I agree with the above post [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. I'de love to start preparing for a career in which I contribute to something meaningful it the world but I can't find a career path that motivates me anywhere near what poker does. I had a nice buisness internship lined up that I quit because I hated it so much and I can't even begin to find anything other than poker to take its place. I dunno, I'm still young and would love to be an active member in society but its dificult when I'm having a lot of fun making more money than a 19 year old should. I'm jealous of all of the people who have posted that they are in or entering fields that they enjoy despite that they pay less than poker, but I just don't know if everyone can find something that they can enjoy as much as poker even if they aren't greed driven.

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I left a full scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology because I hate how cold it was there. Which made me hate what I was studying - Software Engineering.

I really want to find something other than poker that makes me really happy, something that I want to share with other people. Just don't know what it is yet.

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I really want to find something other than poker that makes me really happy, something that I want to share with other people. Just don't know what it is yet.

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I think drapes knows the answer (at least for most people), but you might be a little too young for it.

[The Yugoslavian]

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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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Very nicely put.

Frankly, I have a real job that doesn't even pay nearly as well as what everyone else here is talking about. I live in one of the most expensive areas in the world to live in and my life is very very very very very very easy. I mean, seriously, I got 'pretend' fired at one point and for about two minutes thought I actually *was* fired but even during those two minutes I realized that I just had too many options at my disposal to actually be worried.

A wiser man than myself once told me that life is really all about getting comfortable and riding it out. Everyone is getting waaaaaaaay too uptight in their thinking.

Yugoslav

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Everyone is getting waaaaaaaay too uptight in their thinking.

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I like going to bed early and buying Heiny's for friends [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I mean, seriously, I got 'pretend' fired at one point and for about two minutes thought I actually *was* fired but even during those two minutes I realized that I just had too many options at my disposal to actually be worried.

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Seriously Yugo, they can't fire you from McDonalds. Dont sweat it.

[The Yugoslavian]

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I mean, seriously, I got 'pretend' fired at one point and for about two minutes thought I actually *was* fired but even during those two minutes I realized that I just had too many options at my disposal to actually be worried.

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Seriously Yugo, they can't fire you from McDonalds. Dont sweat it.

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They fired Gigabet [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]. Once upon a time he was lofty restaurant manager...I'm just a lowly register worker (or as I like to call it, 'McDope Peddlar.' Anyway, why do you think Giga lives out of Fischman's house?? He's got no steady income...[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Yugoslav

[Slim Pickens]

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Does being a grad student count? It's almost like a job.


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[Tilt]

Great post.

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nice post...Im now debating between being a teacher or being a poker player, sadly my parents dont support either [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. Teachers are unfairly underrated in the chilean middle-high class due to their low wages.
The thing about being a teacher is that my top potential profit is $15000 a year...just a few thoughts, ure post made me think ¿Do I really want to be my whole life in front of a computer screen?