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Originally Posted by Glenn
... poker players should consider getting jobs...
Notwithstanding the outstanding post by ArtX...
The sort of person that would grind poker for years...
Is a 3 sigma non-conformist...
NEEDING an unstructured and independent lifestyle...
Much like the lifestyle of an artistic person.
Many of the jobs listed (tax, analyst, etc)...
Are tailor made for 3 sigma CONFORMISTS...
People who can only function highly structured.
It gets worse...
Because extreme conformists and extreme non-conformists...
Never become friends...
They view the other as a creepy freak...
Typically a poker player type...
Is gonna be fish out of water in some corporation.
Save your money grinding and start your own business...
It's the only way you will be happy...
Play poker for 30 hours...
Work on a business start-up for 30 hours.
I quit my last job as a Software Engineer in Jan 1990...
And I have NEVER looked back...
I'd shoot myself...
Before ever applying for a ****ing job job...
Even though I would be making >> 100K + benefits.
I was once offered a job as Hedge Fund Manager...
By the owner of Acuity Funds...
Which was just sold for $300 million...
And I turned it down...
Just can't imagine working for anyone.
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