Not enjoying the game as you used to is normal in any profession.
You can start in a new job, posible will enjoy it for the first months and than will see hard to continue.

Is important to have fun while playing poker, but if it’s your job you won’t going to be having fun all the time while doing it.

Any job related to sales is kinda easy to start in, you can use alot of poker skills on it and pay well if you go well.
I’m actually working with sales after 5 months really hard on poker and planning to go back to the tables full time as soon as the things get better for me.

GL!

And nevermind this people.
Degree is definetelly overrated.

Very good friend of mine who I have known for over 20 years. He is a successful Realtor/Investor. He thinks Life Insurance is the next big thing. His mentor for real is from CA and 27 and banking, no joke! Going to see them tomorrow. Will be back with details

If you have good ability understanding more technical articles etc. you might be able to pick up a coding language fairly quickly. It's not a massive time investment at all to see if you have the ability to code well.

So many online resources now to check pretty quickly. What turns people off is the work involved and how it gets more complex the deeper you dive into it.

My only issue with coding is the process is a little bit staccato - it lacks the flow of our daily communication. There aren't really any computer languages out there - it's more appropriate to call them a toolset.

Think the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of long term potential. Drugs that combat aging are now under FDA evaluation for the first time (metformin) while diseases like diabetes and obesity are growing in every country on the planet. Added to that you have some entirely new classes of drugs which could add thousands of products to the marketplace (peptides, gene therapy etc.)

Manufacturing, legal, sales and marketing will all play a big role.

I'd imagine running investment analysis in this area would be very interesting. You would need a high knowledge of pharmaceuticals in addition to a financial background.

Automation, drones, and younger generations not sending mail physically at all should essentially eliminate carrier jobs in the next 10-25 years no?

with coding:
under 30 = go get the comp. sci degree
over 30 = go to trade school and learn a physical trade or particular IT niche.
IF you have an accounting, finance, marketing, and/or IT background (be it degree or work experience) BUT just have a monster resume gap from poker...check out PEGA or SalesForce.

PEGA is brutally boring and you will likely work on a team with Indians but the pay is good if you stick it out 3+ years ( I was offered a job but couldn't stand it / the cities where companies use it suck).

There's a TON of demand for experienced programmers (5+ years) but to get into a solid role without a CS degree and being over 30 is a very very tough road and I wouldn't recommend unless you have a true passion for it

lol, I open threads like these expecting about half the posts to be pro poker player hating, but this one really made me chuckle. Sorry you suck at the game dude, sheesh.

I makes me chuckle that anyone would have that much faith in a mental health professional. Mental health and addiction health pros are about the worst investment of time and money that I've seen in my life. In no other profession could you spend years with a professional and get so little in return.

There’s nothing to be jealous or envious of a “pro”... All I see itt are people who are actually concerned and feel bad for such a sad, lost bunch but are too lazy and fed up to be pc on a public forum for softies like you. Sometimes you need someone to tell it like it is without sugar coating.

Huntington, mental health and addiction specialists can’t do squat if the person who needs the help won’t meet them halfway. It sounds like you weren’t ready to do that...

And yet you're jelly, furry jelly.

"sad, lost bunch", placing all people of a profession into a little box like this is really strange, and not a sign of a healthy mind, I think you're the one who needs to seek a mental health professional. Also, I didn't say anything about you or anyone being jealous of a poker pro, far as I'm concerned the only people to be truly jealous of are professional athletes, everything else I assume ends up being tedious and kinda sucking after a time.

I give as much credence to poker players calling themselves professionals as I give to someone selling loose cigarettes and ripped dvds downtown who call themselves a professional salesman. There’s no hate, just pity and sadness.

I’ve read enough of these debates to know the pros calling people haters is synonymous to calling them jealous or envious. So I went ahead and tried to nip it in the bud. But you still brought it up. Great.

As mentioned above, have you read any pgcs or just looked around at the average poker player and “professional”. Not all of them have issues but the vast majority do. Don’t believe me? Why don’t you go spend a weekend or two at commerce to change your mind.

You mentioned all people of a profession as if that number is large. How many poker “pros” have lasted 20+ years like a real honest profession? There should be hundreds if not thousands of guys chirping up... but all I hear it crickets and crash and burn stories.

Early 30's is just about the right age for chasing rich widows.

Always cracks me up that anyone questioning the validity of a poker “career” is instantly labeled a bad player and “jealous”. Really shows how deluded these people are lol

Psychological therapists. Bunch of fish on a worthless endeavour

But check my OPR br0

Become a mechanic

Build up a round with dentists to collect their extracted teeth.
Separate teeth from the gold, silver, mercury, etc.
Profit.

If you're referring to me, I protested him outright saying all professional poker players have some kind of mental illness, lol. Seems like a close to lock the guy has some sort of major beef with poker players, most likely scenario is him getting smashed at the game and wanting to make himself feel better by diminishing the entire thing. I mean if I offered to bet you that this is the case at even odds which side would you take? Seems clear.

mental illness is maybe a bit of an overstatement but I must say most of them, calling themselves pro, are miserable degens scraping by

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...id=mailsignout

Plastics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dug-G9xVdVs

I'm not sure about 99% but the percentage with mental disorders has to be quite high.

This has been my general view as well, although I've shifted a bit on this. My opinion is now that most people throughout society are terrible and poker simply brings their true nature to the surface (given the adversarial nature with money on the line..not to mention how much of a beating it can be).

I concur. Sure, you could take the path that most players that can no longer beat the game take, which is deal poker (ala Dutch Boyd) or you could take the path less traveled. Poker pros aren't really workers. We aren't cut from that cloth. We want to do what we want when we want. So what better role could you take on than leaching off the government and/or society in general? If you are working a street corner for handouts you can pretty much set your own hours and put in minimal effort. Sure, you'll never get rich doing it but you aren't going to get rich dealing poker either.

if you are mathematically gifted learn to play bridge. there are lots and lots of old ladies that will pay to play with young men who can win at this childs game. try it

They sometimes have games other than bridge on their mind as well.

Gigolo could fit the "Good jobs for poker players without a college degree".