https://www.twitch.tv/brokenstars666

Gl will follow

Played for 90 mins amd lost 5bi and jus kinds insta-quit. Not the best mindset so didn't want to continue playing.

feelsbadman

good decision to quit

one of those days. ul.

Man it must have been pretty gross if even mirage is giving condolences

It was a bad session but it wasn't THAT bad. I made a couple mistakes and also got cooler ed a couple times and ducked out on. After taking a break I played more but basically broke even. I'll post month graph on 2nd probably. Still did well for the month, but it would be very cool if I ran x above ev rather than x below ev. I'm hoping February is even better!

I announced it on stream today, but...



First session of February went great and +$700 or so with some great plays! Feeling good to start the month so strong.

January

Congrats on quitting, let’s hope you’ve saved the run good up to be used over the next few months!

Gl finding a better job, are you still planning on streaming/ any plans to stream earlier in the day?


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I'll be streaming more often. Time of day likely to be between 6pm and 2am cst

Best of luck.

Hope this works out to your benefit. In retrospect, selling mine off was one of my worst decisions.

DO NOT quit your job if trying to apply to other jobs.

You need current emplpyment when applying to other jobs, it makes it exponentially easier. Do not listen to anyone that comes in and disagrees. They are wrong. This is something I am quite experienced in.

If you truly want to quit and just play poler, whatever. Its a mistake, but whatever.

If you want another job, dont quit current. Just start not giving a **** and applying quite hard.

Lets do a skype this weekend and I can talk you through it.

I dream of the day I can put in my 2 weeks notice. Party on man!

In reference to the above post, it depends on how much money he has saved up and how comfortable he is if his finances start dwindling from it.

Knowing where brokenstars lives, I can't imagine there are many better opportunities around his locale. And he'd have to combine that with where ever his S.O wanted to go with their career. So I'd guess this would be more of a nationwide search, which could require extensive travel. You can't really do that if you're tied down with a job. I can't imagine he did this without a decent stash of cash built up, and as long as his poker successes continue it's not like he's going to run out of money anytime soon.

Good luck with this! And if you are doing a nationwide search, check my city out, one of the few in the midwest with an expanding economy and population.

Of course. I wouldn't even consider it without 6 figures banked and he seems to have his head on straight. I foresee him succeeding, job or no job.

I have >12 months saved. Current employment just too toxic. Ive had 5 different bosses in 2 years. Turnover is >20%/yr. Gf has job that can also cover our expenses completely.

Look you are preaching to the choir when it comes to toxic work environmemt. Im not talking you out of leaving.

But I'm telling you that when applying to jobs without a job you severly handicap yourself.

For one, the "why did you leave" or "why is there this gap" will be 50% of your interview. That's not good

For two, you dont have negotiating abilities. Companies generally pay 5-15% premium to your current base even for lateral transition. That disappears when you have no job. You get ladder pay.

For three, it may handicap your growth. This happened to me. Realistically you can apply to growth opportunites right now and cite that as one of your reasons for looking externally. Companies love to hear this. Put another way, I'm an analyst II. I have recruiters blowing me up for senior positions trying to "steal" me from my current employer. If i wasnt working, that wouldnt happen. I'd mostly have to apply laterally.

This is one of the best labor markets for job seekers in the last 20 years. You could have 3-4 good opportunities within a week if you just put yourself out there. Start on job sites like indeed, monster, careerbuilder. Then post to recruiter postings lile ranstad, parker and lynch, etc.

All of this is based on the assumption you have an engineering degree and several years experience...which I'm pretty sure you do. I remember you saying something along those lines.

Question: can I somehow block out avaritia's posts? So **** tilting

You click on my name, view public profile, user lists, add to ignore.

It's still a bit tilting bc you see that I posted. I wish it would hide it entirely.

Cheers!

best of luck man. if you ever want to discuss start send me a pm. Gl will be following.

Everything you said is not incorrect. I'm just too mentally/physically unhealthy staying at this job. I would literally take a pay cut to leave, so it's OK.

I'm very confident in my abilities, and more-so now that I've gotten some experience under my belt, but now it's time to move on. i was only planning on staying there until GF completed her grad school as well. I'm in a pretty good spot right now (we are), and while having a small gap on resume isn't great it should be < 6 months.

Put together this mini entertainment center the other day and it took forever. The instructions were so bad!

ABOUT ****ING TIME. GOOD ON YOU. I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU. JFC.

FFS why lol? If you have >12 months saved up, why sell the BTC when it's so cheap?

It's actually pretty simple.

{EV of staying in current job for 3 months while applying} = A
{EV of quitting immediately, grinding IG for a bit, taking ~10-15% pay cut when going back to work in a much better environment} = B

If B > A, then it's wrong to say "you need current employment when applying to other jobs".

Again, what have I told you about speaking in absolutisms!

I did that at my previous job once I handed my 4 weeks in. It caused me to leave on pretty bad terms and therefore lost that reference. Which was fine because I'll never work in a similar place again, but might be valuable for Mas not to burn bridges and do it the right way.

6 Figures is a crazy arbitrary number... Where on earth was 6 figures plucked from? No one needs 6 figures sitting in the bank doing nothing, even if thoroughly unemployed.

12 months is obv way more than enough. Good on you for finally getting tf out. It's a decision I think you'll really struggle to regret.

This is actually a very good post.

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@Mas I imagine now you're going to be grinding some reasonable volume since you'll be "relying" on the poker income. I have no idea how sustainable your current winrate is at 200 because obv the most recent one you posted is lol sample but if we think you're somewhere in the ballpark of 5-10bb/100, I'm sure you could make a verrrry competitive hourly that is probably higher EV than your current job.

Like 2x200 Zone tables, 200 hands per hour, @~6bb/100, $24/hr just two tabling using very conservative estimates. And you could throw in a few reg tables and maybe bumhunt some ACR as well as look at some of the apps to pretty easily double that hourly imo.

I know you're more career-focused than me but I think you underestimate how valuable your skill-set (ability as a poker player) can be if you utilize it maximally.

Will be tuning into the stream today, GL.

broken why did you sell your bitcoin at the low?

meale im getting 440h/ph 2 tabling zone.