Surprising Work/Poker Balance Alteration
I have been a bit pissed off with what I've been doing at work lately, I didn't really want to get up in the morning, and I started thinking about quitting and playing online poker instead - that's how bad it was ! And so (drum roll) ... I have transferred internally and will be working on something else that I should enjoy more. As part of the deal I'm going back to a 5 day week (I have been working a 4 day week for the last two years). It's a good deal - when I went down to a 4 day week I took a 20% pay cut, but now I'm going back to 5 I get a 25% rise ! Do that a few times and I'll be laughing !
Together with the whoring (announcement still pending) that's going to bring in a decent amount of extra money. What I need now is an expensive hobby that involves travelling around the world largeing it. I know ! So I'm going to use some of the extra money to spin it up in slightly bigger tournaments. For fun. For the challenge. Why not. I'm still planning to take a sabbatical next year, and maybe spend three months on the road in the US (or just in Vegas), that's something to look forward to. When people ask "should I play poker professionally", no one mentions the key factor - how good is your job now ? How easy would it be to go back to when (sorry if) the poker goes tits up ? I'm lucky I have a good job - I don't mind making a bit more effort with it for a while.
Together with the whoring (announcement still pending) that's going to bring in a decent amount of extra money. What I need now is an expensive hobby that involves travelling around the world largeing it. I know ! So I'm going to use some of the extra money to spin it up in slightly bigger tournaments. For fun. For the challenge. Why not. I'm still planning to take a sabbatical next year, and maybe spend three months on the road in the US (or just in Vegas), that's something to look forward to. When people ask "should I play poker professionally", no one mentions the key factor - how good is your job now ? How easy would it be to go back to when (sorry if) the poker goes tits up ? I'm lucky I have a good job - I don't mind making a bit more effort with it for a while.
7 Comments:
Get it quietly. Some of us are unemployed you know.
And some of us are unemployable.
Bad Beat said...
And some are more unemployable than others.
Lionel Hutz says...i hear StanJames are offering work to the unemployable. I think all you need to do is string a few coherent sentences together and they stick money in a poker account for you, you'd be amazed at the wasters they have working there.
About the pay cut/pay rise. Does a 20% cut followed by a 25% rise not bring you back to where you started?
Or was that a joke?
Yes to both. Sorry, it was a very bad joke :-)
Andy.
I see.
My thought process was as follows:
1. That's pretty cool (after reading your post)
2. Wait, those numbers don't make sense (after thinking about it)
3. Wait, maybe it was a joke (as I typed in my comment)
Not that I thought you would make such a mistake, but I was half-way through writing my post and did a Magnus Magnusson.
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