(Way OT) What are you graduating seniors doing?

[gomberg]

If you guys can't hack a 9-5 (very understandable, I have trouble myself) - then just play poker if you're successful, travel the world, do whatever. As long as you have contacts and are somewhat of a decent interviewer (not that hard to get good at this), you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a good job in the future. They will be there (much more likely than online poker still being there some years down the road).

Better yet, the best idea is to play poker, and if done traveling the world, then start up businesses on the side or find interesting investments. Read up on stuff that interests you. Find something you love. If you truly love poker, then do that. If you think you'll get bored in 3 years or burnt out, start educating yourself in various fields and consider starting up businesses, websites, etc. Create assets for yourself and fall back on poker. Making money with poker gives you a ridiculous situation where you have great freedom to do whatever you want. Don't waste the opportunitiy, especially if you don't think you want to do it forever.

If getting a job will teach you a lot, make you good contacts, and lead to future great success (more than 200k / year - think of starting up something) - then take the job and play poker on the side until you feel you've learned enough of how that industry works. By then you'll probably have some good acquaintances in the industry and you can quit and plan on being the boss [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (and with poker as a crutch, you have more risk tolerance than your peers)...

Hope that advice helps someone -

Gomberg