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Originally Posted by BobBlank
No, it isnt. Alot of jobs are very rewarding actually. Poker isnt.
Heck, even serving in mcdonalds could be rewarding. If you do well and serve people well you can make them happy. There is scope for promotion also. And thats the bottom of the barrell too....most other jobs are far more rewarding to the average person.
Also poker is the most repetitive job imaginable. Just sitting and playing the same game for 5 years is crazy. How can that be anyones plan. As already stated, its hard to stay interested in poker after a while unless you are basically a degen (even if you dont admit it). In the end the game will bore you and you will be left with the gamble, the buzz, the feeling when you bink that big hand, the dream of playing durr one day. You will be playing for that feeling at the end of a hard day when you have logged 10k hands and are up $5k.
Poker is really a negative long term impact for the huge majority of people who do it profesionally.
You are making the mistake, a fallacy of sorts, of taking your subjective experiences and assuming they are objective facts. I was going to cut and paste such statements, but decided to bold them instead, realizing with lolz that pretty much your whole post suffers from this poor logic.
I applaud you for quitting something you found un-fulfilling for you (it doesn't matter to me whether it is poker, or medicine, law, HVAC installation, whatever), but your arguments in the objective have so far been unpersuasive.
I will reiterate what others itt have said, at the risk of psycho-analyzing, and suggest to you it might be that your are not a happy person, not that playing poker for a living is without happiness.