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Originally Posted by XFlopRRiver
I'm jealous that you are in a place in life where you can play a 20h session of zoom. I could do neither 20 hours nor zoom.
Vacation lol
I could be playing pretty hard in the last 2 years, but was annoyed by poker, had depression, was doing few subjects from the university(reproved a lot because of depression/burnout and decided to keep it slow). So was just playing HS/mtg.
But after I graduate my life will turn into hell, will have to study more than 10h/day for 1-2 years so I can pass in the tests to get a good government job.
That was something I wasn't sure I could do before I came back to poker, after my depression I couldn't focus, studied something like 15 mins/day(not counting when I went to classes). After this time playing poker hardcore I got back my "spark" of determination.
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"The Loser is back" complete ****** ass loser that wastes time
Something that people like that can't understand: nothing is a waste of time, even in those 2 years, when I could have easily finished the university in 1 year wasn't a waste off time. Every time you end up with something, even if you fail, you at least learn something. In that time I couldn't go on a faster pace, so it was fine.
Even though I'm not loving having this huge downswing, "wasting 2 months" of play, I'm getting out of this with more poker knowledge, more determination, more confidence that I'll be able to do my best, pass in that government job I want, which I wasn't sure I could.
It's not that my family is rich, we're in a comfortable situation, always went into the best private schools, went to one of the best universities of my country(it's free at least, but had to own a bunch of people during high school), had the opportunity to study/do almost any hobby I could, but I'll have to work and earn my money. The good thing is that if I get that government job, I'll probably work 6 hours/day, earn something around 6-7k/month. So I'll have time to follow my plans outside of work, with that much free time, like getting better at investing, working hard to be the best in the games I like(mtg, poker, dota), travel, have a good time with my friends.
While a lot of my friends from university are working like crazy, some of them are working for 16h/day, 3 months straight, sometimes working on weekends for 3k/month. Engineers are exploited a lot in the private sector in my country. Of course some are doing pretty well, there's a girl from my class that went to wall street, working in goldman sachs, one guy is at google, but for the majority, they're having a tough time.
My main plan is to get a government job in the city my parents live so I can live with them, save a lot of money and invest so I can have my money working for me. It looks silly but rent is expensive as crazy in Brazil. Unless I want to live in a ****hole, which is fine by me if my parents kick me off their house haha.
Even though raised in a good middle-high class environment I don't have problems in living in a poor place. It's better to live in a humble place for a while and make your money work for you in the long term than to work all your life for that money. No matter how ****ty is your house, it's still way better than having to work like crazy lol.