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Originally Posted by madlex
You’re still very young so I don’t blame you for your ignorance, but what you are facing is very far away from that “classic” question you’re referring to.
You’re not trying to get an obscure degree of very questionable worth that many ridiculously overpriced, irrelevant colleges in the US hand out. You’re at an internationally recognized university trying to get a very relevant degree at basically no cost. That’s an absolute dream scenario for the vast majority of students in the world.
If you come back in a year after making $200k from poker while studying, the answer would still be “get your degree” with the caveat of maybe taking less classes and extend your college career for one or two years so you have more time to play.
I think youre overlooking something really important though.
I think a lot of people know that getting a degree is pretty much always more valuable in terms of expected income, but for some there would be a huge lifestyle difference if they would choose poker or the degree.
With a degree on a 9 to 5 you can probably make more money which means you could have idk a bigger house, a nice car, a wife, kids, etc. Which for some would be a dream come true.
But if someone were to be an online poker player earning idk 30k a year net he could still live in some country in asia with lower cost of living and nice weather, living in a comfy 5 star hotel, getting his room cleaned everyday, have a big choice of what he should eat every day, and really just general freedom of doing and going what and where ever he wants as he can make money where ever theres internet. Now this would be a big dream for other people.
Now theres nothing wrong with the one or the other, its just what lifestyle one would prefer. So i dont think you can answer hero's question here with a simple "degree = more money so choose the degree or youre stupid"...