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

[XChamp]

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If you don't feel comfortable telling them you play cards, make something up. I'm a consultant, I teach nights at XYZ learning center, I'm a male prostitute, I'm looking for a full-time teaching position, etc. Who cares what they think?

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I don't think I've made my point clear. I'm not going to lie to my family/loved ones about what I do. Their friends, neighbors and family are sometimes curious and ask them what I do for a living. They are the ones that care what people think and care themselves about what I do. For example, my mom told me she was too embarrassed to tell the neighbors what I was doing when they asked her. I don't want to put my mom in that position.

[Homer]

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If you don't feel comfortable telling them you play cards, make something up. I'm a consultant, I teach nights at XYZ learning center, I'm a male prostitute, I'm looking for a full-time teaching position, etc. Who cares what they think?

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I don't think I've made my point clear. I'm not going to lie to my family/loved ones about what I do. Their friends, neighbors and family are sometimes curious and ask them what I do for a living. They are the ones that care what people think and care themselves about what I do. For example, my mom told me she was too embarrassed to tell the neighbors what I was doing when they asked her. I don't want to put my mom in that position.

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You said in that post you didn't want to lie to teachers who sometimes ask what else you do.

I understand you concern about pleasing your loved ones. However, when you are completely honest with them and stop worrying about what they and their friends/neighbors think, I believe you will be much happier. That was my experience, at least.

[XChamp]

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I understand you concern about pleasing your loved ones. However, when you are completely honest with them and stop worrying about what they and their friends/neighbors think, I believe you will be much happier. That was my experience, at least.

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How can I possibly be happy with myself if everyone I love is not and I can change it easily?

[Homer]

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I understand you concern about pleasing your loved ones. However, when you are completely honest with them and stop worrying about what they and their friends/neighbors think, I believe you will be much happier. That was my experience, at least.

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How can I possibly be happy with myself if everyone I love is not and I can change it easily?

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It's most likely not going to be as easy as you're making it out to be. You want to do a certain thing with your life and everyone else wants you to do something else and is embarassed to tell others about what you enjoy doing. Doing something you aren't passionate about for many hours a week for many weeks will begin to wear on you, most likely. Also, at some point it may become frustrating to see your parents for the nth time displaying disappointment in your poker play and/or lying about it to others.

It all boils down to being constrained from living life the way you want to live it.

I'm an attorney. My job didn't mesh well with poker my first few years because I was working all the time, but not that I have more experience I'm able to devote more time to poker. I just received a raise to $130K/yr with an annual bonus from between 10-25% of my base salary. On the days I "work from home" I'm usually able to get in 2 to 4 hours of poker. So I have a decent job with decent pay that allows time for poker. However, some people don't consider lawyering as socially acceptable.

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if you spend some time as an affiliate, which you should do anyway to solidify some tax deductions and generally make recordkeeping much easier, you will be able to have your mom say that you do online internet marketing, which is certainly acceptable and the "in" thing these days.

if they bother to ask what, you work in the entertainment industry and it isn't porn! if they ask any more than that, the correct response is, "Why do you ask?" and when they say they are just interested in your well-being...she can say, "well thank you, I will pass on your interest and concern."

That should certainly be the end of it.

I recommend a sales job. Try to get one that allows you to work from home a day or two a week. Sometimes it can be stressful, but if you get good at it, your income potential is huge. Plus, these jobs generally aren't cerebral, so it won't tax your brain and wear you out like other jobs might.

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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.

[XChamp]

Can people please focus on suggestions for jobs? There are many reasons why I am asking this. I'd rather not get into a discussion about why since I don't feel like talking about my personal life on the internet.

There have been some great suggestions on here so far. Thanks a lot.

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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.