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Originally Posted by TGrant71
I would imagine I can't list professional poker player on my resume and expect that to do anything positive when reaching out to employers. Is my best bet to just go back to school and finish up my degree? My girlfriend is expecting our first child in 7 months to complicate matters even more. I'm just feeling lost and unsure of what to do.
As an employer, I would much prefer a resume reading "Professional Poker Player" than an empty space, lies or "Soul Searching in Asia" / "Professional World Traveller". In your place, I would make sure to list any outside of gambling work (have you maybe volunteered somewhere? Non-gambling related investment work? Management?) on my resume as well.
Going back to school is almost always a good choice though, especially if it is in a field where a degree should land you a job. With only 70k, it might be hard to do without also working somewhere at least part-time (depending on cost of living where you live, cost of education, expenses etc).
I would also consider psychotherapy or some other form of counselling (maybe you have some friend(s) you can talk to that are not poker players?), because after nine years of playing for a living your view of the worth of money might make it hard to "work" for a "normal" wage, when a monthly wage is an amount that you used to win/lose every night. This might be hard to come to terms with, especially at first.