Job That Couples Well w/ Online Poker On The Side?

[XChamp]

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The answer to that is obvious.
Be a substitute teacher. They can practically pick their own hours.

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

[Apathy]

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The answer to that is obvious.
Be a substitute teacher. They can practically pick their own hours.

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

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More or less socially acceptable them being a fulltime poker pro?


The thought of getting a "real" job still scares me [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[MicroBob]

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

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Well then that indicates that OP wants to do something that is up a different set of standards than I was previously envisioning.

I was in my 30's with a degree from a decent school (Miami U. in Ohio) and was dealing blackjack for almost a year.
There was another dealer there in his 40's or 50's with a PhD from Wisconsin (smokers and non-smokers are in different rooms during the breaks...so I didn't get to know him very well so don't know his whole story).



I understand why you would feel pressure from others that you should be more successful in your career.
But, really, why should you/I care??
If others have a problem with it then it's THEIR problem.


Again though, I do understand where this kind of pressure comes from.
My girlfriends parents (from South America) just have a picture that EVERYONE with a college degree in the U.S. should easily be successful so why was this guy dealing cards at a casino (and now playing online-poker full-time)??



Anyway, probably not for you, but for others out there....BJ dealer worked great for me.
If it's a low-traffic casino then you might be able to get out early on virtually every shift if you wanted to.

you sign an 'early-out sheet'...on swing-shift they bring in more dealers than they need 'just in case' they have a bigger than expected night.
Around 10p or 11p on a Monday they will start closing tables and sending dealers home in the order in which they signed the sheet.

It was perfect for me...if I had a couple bad weeks at poker then I could put in full 40 hours weeks most of the time (or even overtime on weekends if I wanted) and when I was running well I could give-away a shift and/or sign-out early a lot of the time and bring my hours down to 20 or so (giving me more time for poker at home obviously).
It was the perfect type of situation to get in my hours and experience at poker while also keeping steadier income coming in to balance out the downswings.

Eventually they had a bit of a dealer shortage as the low-paying casinos are always losing their dealers to places that pay more (have a higher toke-rate) and they tried to make me a full-timer which is about the time I decided to do poker full-time instead (and could always go back to dealing if it went badly).

[XChamp]

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I understand why you would feel pressure from others that you should be more successful in your career.
But, really, why should you/I care??
If others have a problem with it then it's THEIR problem.


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I don't care what random people think of me; however, I do care about what my loved ones think of me. None of them want me to play poker. At that point it's not really my decision. Even if they are wrong, I can't desert them just for a career.

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Personal trainer can be a job that pays well per hour, and is good for your health too, physical therapist or any type of motivator.

An actual doctor or chiropractor would likely take more years of schooling, but it is a good long term career choice. Chiropractors can spend time online playing poker between patient visits.

Any job that can be done via the phone or that doesnt' take long hours of actually working, but many hours of being "on call."

I know of executives who are looking for personal assistant, but that job may be more of a live in glorified chauffer job. It may not suit your mother's taste of career advancement, but it does involve hours of sitting around waiting for other people. Mobile phones/PDAs do poker these days.

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An actual doctor or chiropractor would likely take more years of schooling, but it is a good long term career choice. Chiropractors can spend time online playing poker between patient visits.

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So that's what my [censored] doctor is doing while I'm sitting in the waiting room for 45 minutes! I knew that bastard was up to something.

[Peter Harris]

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I already am a substitute teacher. It's not particularly socially acceptable to be in your 20s with a degree from a decent school and substitute teach.

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it's not particularly socially acceptable to play poker. Who gives? Do what makes you happy.