I graduated from a top business undergrad in Canada in 2012, luck-boxed a management consulting summer position after 3rd year and full time position after graduation. It's what most people on here would consider a good job, 75K + bonus starting, benefits, travel etc. However 9 months into the job I realized that professional services definitely wasn't for me (perhaps no form of corporate life) but I couldn't leave before 2 years without paying back a ton of my signing bonus.
Then a miracle happened and business slowed down a lot and an opportunity came up to leave in early June not only without paying back bonus but with a nice package (~4 months living expenses). I didn't leave work to play poker per se but rather than look for work immediately I decided to spend my newly endowed free hours during the summer playing live 1/2 to see where it would go and then decide in the fall if it made more sense to continue with poker, i.e. move up to 2/5 or to look for work (goal is to save enough to not have to nickel and dime through grad school, hoping to do a masters of econ & philosophy in UK in next few years).
So far I'm 352 hours in since June 18th, all games at 1/2 and am at ~$30/hr overall. However the last 100 of those hours were in a digital room where there's 55 hands/hr and lower rake. So the breakdown is really $21/hr in live dealer games and $58/hr in this new room. I think more like $40-45/hr is realistic in this new room which would theoretically allow me to make the same cash salary of old job in ~1/3 of the time. So no regrets so far
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