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Originally Posted by potleemit
Actually, there are many professions where people generally go broke. Like insurance agents, dentists, and quite a few others. You mention athletes, but that is really not a profession.
As far as I am concerned, any endeavor where a majority of the people go broke quite often is not a real profession. The few that never go broke can consider themselves fortunate, but playing poker is not a real profession, in the true sense of the word, just like calling someone Doctor if they have an advanced education degree does not make them a Doctor.
The term Poker "Pro" is almost an oxymoron, since a vast majority of those who call themselves that have bad credit and no real family life. That doesn't mean that attempting to play poker for a living is immoral, but it just means that it is not a true profession.
That is why people start threads on here asking questions like how should they explain to people they meet what they do for a living....lol. Then you get a lot of twisted responses in the thread, as people try to fit a square peg into a round hole.
A true profession is one in which, when someone asks what you do, you answer honestly and quickly, because that is what you are, and it is honorable, and you don't lose money doing it.
This is quite possibly the dumbest post I've read, and that's saying a lot as I have read a lot in the 'is poker rigged' thread. The only hope is that it's a level, but to what point?
Dentists go broke all the time? As do insurance agents? When someone asks me what I do for a living, I answer honestly and quickly--play poker. I don't go broke, and what I do is as honorable as any other career (I used to work as an NGO worker in disaster zones and war-torn areas, I guess that was more 'honorable'). And being an athlete is not really a profession? LOL, I guess you've never tried to make it as an athlete--they work harder at their craft than most other 'professionals'.
Potleemit, whether your post was a level or not, you need to get a life.