when you have people who only make about a single post a year take the time to write out such a thoughtful statement you should listen up 6B

you are inflating numbers sir. Dude averages OVER 2 poasts per year. More than double the amount you are suggesting.

Maybe make a prop bet with your wife. If you don't get at least 40 hours per week, no secks for the next week. If that can't motivate you, then find a new job and/or find a new wife.

my bad, guess he should just ignore it then like all the other people thoughtfully poasting on his behalf

**** the normie advice. Do DMT and let the machine elves take the wheel!!!

+1 this is on brand

Why do you think that is?

Because if you ever did succeed at poker, you would end up feeling like a failure.

Because there's two things in play: first, he's a gambling addict/action junkie. He doesn't actually like poker, he likes the risk involved. Second, he's lazy as **** and sees poker as easy money. A way for him to make money without actually putting forth any effort. When he sunruns, it's all good. When he comes back down to earth it's not fun anymore and he gets bummed out and sleeps all day and spends his money on dumb stuff so that he has less money, so that poker can be fun again because he's risking a higher % of his net worth.

I'll bet anything that he'll say that when he's playing 100nl on a 1.5k bankroll he feels more "focused" than when he's playing on a 15k bankroll.

What’s it that Doyle says?

Poker is a hard way to make an easy living.

I hope this isn't a knock on therapy, because mental health is very serious business

OP is where he is right now because his mental health is in the shitter and has been for probably his entire adult life

Agreed. **** anyone who disses therapy. They very likely need it themself.

Therapy is for losers who don't have friends and family they can talk to about their problems. Imagine paying a stranger to listen to you whine. It's akin to paying a stranger to have sex in my book.

What's wrong with paying a stranger to have sex?

very fortunate to have progressed to the safety of acquaintance level with you

I like strangers, I like sex.

6bet, why not get a job as a construction labourer with the goal of not only supporting yourself, but also of getting fit and learning the skills to advance into a tradesman of some kind? Very feasible if you have the right attitude and can eventually lead you into a management role etc once you have a ton of experience. You'll also learn the value of the $ - I very much doubt you'll waste what you do on food if you've had to spend a day labouring for it.

It seems like your fundamental problem is not having a job/career. I'd advise living with your mother until you've saved enough money for a house deposit and managed to established yourself as a tradesman in a trade, thereby enabling yourself to get a mortgage.


You'll have to force yourself at first - the body adapts to what it's used to, ie if you spend your time lying down playing games then your body will adapt to that, thereby getting weak and lazy. The more you get used to working the more natural it will become. You have to know how to deal with the morons on a building site and not be afraid to aggressively defend yourself if people treat you badly (which likely would occur considering your honesty and naivity) but that's all part of the experience and you'll have to adapt.

This is one very feasible option and way to elevate your present situation, fwiw

Seriously, what kind of people are you? Quite literally using this guy to maintain your superiority complex's. There are millions of people as degenerate or more degenerate than the chess man - there are millions of people slightly less degenerate, millions far less degenerate. Who cares? Stop feeding his narcissism and your own egos. Oh wow, you've got your lives in such great shape and are so full of pearly wisdom - take a f*cking hike you bunch of f*ckwits. The chess man will continue with degeneracy, or he will regenerate and go on to be successful by his or whoever else's criteria. Then he will die, exactly the same as you'll do whatever you do and then die. Who gives a f*ck. Go and find a real hobby you sad pathetic pieces of sh*t

Therapy is all well and good. What OP needs is a job, not therapy. Like an actual job. Not one where he is his own boss or requires huge motivation on his part. Just a normal office job.

Pick any entry level job in an industry where you can build up a career.

Don't do this, you aren't cut out for it.

If OP wasn't in Melbourne or Sydney I don't think this would be a great idea, but given that 6bm is in Melbourne I think this is actually some of the best advice in this thread and I really hope he considers it.

It's a joke how easy it is to get into construction labouring work in Sydney and Melbourne. All you have to do is spend a day signing up to some of the agencies in the city and they'll find you work usually within days depending on time of year, there's always plenty of work available its just the weather and the number of backpackers that are there at the time. These agencies don't ask for references, but they will ask about experience and expect you to have some but it's so easy to fake it til you make it with labouring.

Me and my mates did exactly this in Sydney when we took a break from travelling. We had no experience in construction but told the agencies we had a year experience using all power tools and doing general site cleanup, they don't really care for anymore than that. Another great thing is the agencies give you chance after chance, they would regularly find us new work a few days later when we got into the attitude of "fu** it we're on holiday" and went to the pub instead of turning up to work. You really can just quit or get sacked at will and they'll find you new work, and if they do eventually give up on you just go to a new agency. You do get some shi**y jobs sometimes but the work is easy and its not hard to stand out against the south american backpackers that can't speak a word of English and don't understand the simplest instructions. It's casual work too, if you decide you hate it just stop making contact with the agency and don't turn up to work, it's not like you're contracted to anything. All you need is a white card and you can easily do that online or in person at a day course.

In addition to wynners post, having any job forces atleast a little bit of structure, routine and discipline into your life. Sometimes when I get burnt out travelling for months at a time I find that my mind just craves a bit of routine and stability again at some point and I really like the idea of going back to work and the gym, which is funny cos these are the first things I can't wait to get rid of when I quit a job to go travelling. Maybe you'd actually find it easier to go to the gym and grind a bit of poker on the side when you have a job and can fit it all in to a structured routine. Your mental health is clearly shot and it doesn't help that you have all day to think about those things that get you down, I think a bit of structure and routine are really underrated in your position, get yourself out of bed early and force some productivity and have something else to think about through the day. Waking up every day knowing you have no reason to actually get out of bed will never help your mental health. I definitely find myself more productive in all areas of life on working days. Construction work will also help towards your fitness, you really can't go wrong atleast giving this a try. You're in a very fortunate position being in Melbourne

I don't have contacts for agencies or anything in Melbourne like I do in Sydney but they're easy to find with a google search and I have backpacker friends in Melbourne that could give me some I'm sure. I could also help you out with your white card if you need. This idea is worlds better than uber eats or delivering pizza. Even some labouring jobs can be interesting and force you to use a bit of common sense, although not a massive amount of the time. The money is a lot better and the work will keep you active.

This isn't like building sites in the UK where OP would get rinsed for being a bit different. He'd be working with a bunch of foreign backpackers that can't understand a word he's saying and a bunch of Asians who won't say much of anything. There'll be some Brits and Irish but usually the ones that'll get along with anyone, maybe they'll take a shining to his willingness to flip a days wages on who can fill a skip the quickest

The work can be a bit tedious sometimes or maybe a bit tiring depending on what you're doing and if it's the middle of the Aussie summer but it's really not hard. Maybe he'll even find it a bit liberating with his new found liking for fitness

He very clearly has mental health issues, he needs therapy more than he needs a job right now (though he does need both)

The best labourers I've had share exactly these attributes: honesty, reliability, desire to learn and improve, same strong work ethic whether supervised or not, and actually if you're able to just totally brush off any kind of trolling criticism as you do in this thread then that'll stand you in really good stead. However, your inability to distinguish the good advice from the bad is a little worrying as is your lack of recognition and appreciation of the good advice (this is where the Paisting comparisons come from).

Just get out there, work your a$$ off, learn, improve, take opportunities for progression, figure out which trade you want to get involved with and take night courses or look to get involved labouring for a sub-contractor. Probably the easiest and best route into a career for somebody in your position. This is how I worked my way into site management, running my own business and being multi-skilled on the tools. And as I've previously said, you remind me of my younger self. You need life experience and to re-adapt yourself to a new way of life.

Poker can of course still be a side-hustle - you can still take large chunks of time off of work depending on your situation and grind/gym during that time (as I do). Save a set percentage of your wages towards your poker roll (maybe 10/20%), help your mother out with bills and save the rest towards a house deposit. And for god sake encourage your wife to take up cooking - what the hell else does she have to do all day and you'll save a ton of money on food.


I hate the fact that I'm likely just another random preacher popping up in this thread, but I really think this would be a hugely positive step toward improving your life for yourself - just go get that labouring job and learn learn learn. I've had a ton of labourers who are skinny, passive, naive, yet if they're friendly, reliable, willing to learn and hard-working then it really doesn't matter. If you get a boss to whom it does matter and he treats you unfairly, then get a new boss.

This is extremely do'able even in the UK, let alone Melbourne. Please don't listen to anybody telling you you're not cut-out for it - you can adapt.

This clown would not last one day doing a construction or labor job. Probably get himself killed.

What's your profession?