'Going Pro'- a serious conversation

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Everyone's hot topic at the moment..As referenced by the Wicks string interest on the sitgo boards. Not to dismiss the sincere interest in that board, but I want to discuss poker careers where we're looking to net 250K+ per year...not micro grinding.

I was on the fence of making the plunge. Now I can't sleep until I committ to it and will regret it if I dont. If the complexity of my situation wasnt just that, I'd have made the move in a nano-second already. Without getting into uneccessary detail, I'd be leaving a successful job that has a fair amount of security but not 100% security if that makes any sense. I have a family, a rocky marriage (a wife that is not supportive of the career change..mind you that I am the breadwinner and have 18 month old) For the better part of the last 6 months, Ive balanced the career with about 20+ hours of week playing online, 20+hrs a week of reading, discussing poker. I've had about 10 live poker trips within that span(dozens more spanning the last few years), including some wsopcircuit events and the wpt events in my area. In short, I've gone from being slightly profitable to being a consistent winner (pace based on hourly profit is 33% more than salary)and with a higher level of passion for the game than I ever thought possible (and not just because the ROI has improved thru hard work) My breakthrough can be traced back to when a good friend of mine was a circuit event a few months ago for 90k. Being part of that convinced me 100% that this is what I want to do, full stop!

Enough about that..Questions for those kind enough to start a dialogue with me on this..
-Thoughts on the percentage of 2+2'ers that are professional poker players?
-Thoughts on the percentage of players that 'go-pro' and successfully maintain the neccessary ROI given their own goals?
-Anyone with personal commentary on how the poker experience changed when it went from supplemental income to main source of income..

FWIW my game consists of an equal mix of cash, sitgos, MTT all--both live and online..mostly NLHE but I will play the other games with a slight profit..I do not play limit.

My bankroll situation is that I have about 1 1/2 years of comfortable living expenses saved up..however my poker bankroll is mixed in with that..so i could argue that I am funded for 9 months of living expenses and a separate 9 month bankroll given the stakes I play...

serious discussion only please...terrible decision to go pro or reasonable given the circumstances?

i will be playing the wsop events in vegas and there is not an urgency to make the decision one way or another other than the fact that I am consumed with making an immediate decision..