The Big Ax!
Well the inevitable happened. I have been released from my engineering profession. Surpringly I feel great! I have been flirting with the idea of going professional for awhile now. I still have a pretty massive BR although this month certainly isn’t helping things.
So I have decided that I won’t work again until I absolutely have to. I will buy my own benefits at the beginning of the year and live the professional players dream. I know a ton of you guys are full time pros so any serious tips will be greatly appreciated. I will have to actually follow through with my resolution to not spend so much money. I will likely try to live off of 3k a month.
I seriously am so excited. Its the weirdest thing. No more waking up. I make my own hours, and will get stressed at my own risk. I was actually even secretly hoping i was going to go this cut, and sure enough my name got called and they told me to go to the partner’s office. They had sad faces and all i could do was think, these guys have no idea I already make more than they do. I was being told that they will do their best to find me a new job and all i could think about was getting home to finally play my first session. I walked out of there head held high. You can’t let little things like this get to you. People are usually really depressed, but its an opportunity to explore things you really wanna do. I loved my job, and there’s a reason i didn’t quit it before now, but the place that i fell in love with when i first got to the work place has turned drab/depressing/and secretive. No opportunities in this economy and it was stressing me out! Now i’ve got nothing to worry about at all. Except maybe money. I have carefully saved over 5 months of salary to live off of i can’t cash money offline. I will try to cash out 3k every month at one day. I’m not sure which day i will chose yet but i will be methodical.
I am now going out to get lunch with one of the other guys who got cut. My friends at the company who definitely needed their job, are still employed so that’s great news. I seriously think this worked out the best. I would certianly be very open to going back to my company if the economy turns around, and i would love to. I will be unemployed waiting for them i guess! Here’s to the best situation for all!
When god hands you lemons, find a new god. I’m playing a game i love.
dammit burtzlaff, now who am i going to email all the time from work??
Man good I suppose, but seriously playing for a “living” just becomes like any other job at times. I also wouldn’t get to caught up in stats for 6 max/fr as long as you’re comfy/winning.
it will feel good for awhile…but then u realize u still have a job. so enjoy the “freedom” for now…but then realize u still have to set aside hours (which can be very hard to do given any of a thousand variables that come up day to day).
congrats on ur new adventure tho!
Nice thing about thing about the way this happened is you are going to eligable for unemployment for six months. That’s a nice steady paycheck in your transition to full time poker player.