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Originally Posted by MSUJew
I wonder the same. I'm 35, have a college degree, full-time job, and all of the bells and whistles that come with. Grind in my free time. I hate the 9-5 and just cant see myself in this desk job forever. Actually looking to move into playing full-time around Labor Day 2018.
The way I look at it, everything is a waste of time if you're not doing something that you love and I'd hate to look back and have regret that I never gave it a shot. I can always get back to my current position with some company.
-Update
I found some of the initial advice given to me here to be useful. Giving up the "bells and whistles" ultimately did not make enough sense. Instead of going all-out and just dropping my employment, I took a job in my current position with a new company, in a city with a much stronger poker scene.
I've increased my play time both live and online significantly. In essence I act as if I playing for a living, but I also work 9-5. It's very time consuming, but it's what I need to do if I want to incorporate poker as my "primary income". I'm having my best year ever so far and I attribute that to the change in my perspective. To treat poker as my primary source of income with the time that I could allow. And that has seemed to be fruitful. My biggest concern about playing for a living was whether or not I could play well knowing that I had to win. Would I be able to handle that pressure? A 9-5 is the passive income of a professional poker player if you treat it as such, and that's what I'm doing. Now I'm certain that quitting my job to grind full-time Labor Day 2018 is not the best option. I'm going to continue this effort until 1) the decision becomes obvious, i.e. it's costing me money to be at work 2) I've built up enough nest-egg (life roll/poker roll) to play poker and do private consulting. The latter seems most likely as it will give me the freedom and flexibility that I spoke of in my earlier posts, but also some stability.
GL to anyone out there who is giving it a proper go.