very frustrated with telling people what I do

[fire_fly]

i am just sick of this. what do you guys do, i know there must be TONS of ppl in my exact situation.

background: played for 15 months, never had a losing month, living off of poker for 1 year, not rich but more money than most friends/aquaintences my age.

Family thinks I am a degenerate gambler probably.

Friends I'm not sure, but those who know me well are ok with it.

Girls I don't know are my real problem. Inevitably the "so... what do you do?" comes up, and "I play poker" just seems to get overwhelmingly terrible responses. Not a single f*cking time has her response ever been something like "wow, cool!"

wtf?

I think they either don't believe me, or think I'm some kind of gambling junky who has gotten lucky thus far. The question always comes up "well how much do you make?" and we all know how hard this is to finger, but I always just dodge the question with something like "well, I'd rather not get into specifics, but it pays my rent/bills with enough left over to have some fun too."

I just get the feeling girls react to the whole "play poker for a living" thing VERY negatively, and it's been very frustrating for me lately.

what do you guys do?

p.s. I don't have a car currently (live 2 blocks from campus and really don't need one at all) but I keep thinking that if I had some decent car it would change things. Do you guys think this would change girls perspective of me playing poker? I've been thinking yes, but I'm curious what others have to say.