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#21
05-06-2006, 12:04 AM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
Superb Craig. From a well-weathered guy, that has spent an extraordinary amount of time in solitude, beyond time spent keeping the kids on path -- my quite observations over the years have brought to light for me personally, the many points that you have so effectively written here.
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#22
05-06-2006, 01:44 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
So wait, happiness isn't when Penn State destroys Michigan 42-3?
If what you were trying to say is that spending more time with the people you care about makes you happy and that you would quit your job if you could do this more often, then I understood. I don't know why you put the stipulation in that you needed your job to continue your current lifestyle. Wouldn't you be more happy with a different lifestyle but more time to spend with the ones you care about? Would you take a paycut if you had more time? Maybe you could work parttime in your current job to pay the bills and whatever. I don't yet know what makes me happy. I would like more time with friends. I do know that I am a million time more happy on days when I don't have to show up to cubicle hell. I am working on trying to get out of this situation. Hopefully one day poker can pay the bills, and I will be happier!
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#23
05-06-2006, 02:07 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
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[ QUOTE ] the point of life is to get drunk and [censored] bitches [/ QUOTE ] This is most certaintly not the point of life. Indy [/ QUOTE ] Two chicks at the same time? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Yugoslav
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#25
05-06-2006, 02:35 PM
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Brilliant post, very well written. I'm curious, how old are you irieguy? [/ QUOTE ] He will be 36 in 2 months.....Wisdom comes with Age; sometimes Age comes alone [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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#26
05-06-2006, 02:37 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
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[ QUOTE ] Brilliant post, very well written. I'm curious, how old are you irieguy? [/ QUOTE ] He will be 36 in 2 months.....Wisdom comes with Age; sometimes Age comes alone [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] goddamn. read the very humorous post above your serious post. nice work dr. killjoy.
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#27
05-06-2006, 03:15 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
The part about how dying people live was very well put and 100% true. When people know they are dying they usually become very sincere, pure of heart, caring, attentive etc. Like you said, we are all dying so I'm going to take that thought with me and try to become a better person.
Great post Irieguy!
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#28
05-06-2006, 07:31 PM
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If a young poker player like Raptor or Good2cu ever got drunk enough to ask me for advice on dropping out of school to play poker, I would encourage them to stay in school. But it isn't because I think there is anything wrong with playing poker for a living, nor is it because I think that getting a college degree is particularly important. It's because I feel like I understand a little bit about how to find true happiness and I know that the requisite knowledge will not be displayed on a 2001FP over streaming video. In order to learn about compassion, come to terms with your own mortality, and develop a sound world view you need experience and interaction with other people. College is more likely to offer directions to this path that the WPT is. [/ QUOTE ] I have a bit of a problem with this. While I agree that the primary benefit of a college eduction is social/interpersonal inderaction development (and knowledge an important secondary benefit), eating, drinking, and breathing poker for two years develops a unique set of interpersonal skill one can't learn in college. In college, everyone is an idiot. That's what happens when you get that many 18-22 year-olds together. The knowledge pathways are clearly defined: you learn first from the professors, then from the grad students. It's easy. If you want knowledge, you get it from your superiors. If you want interpersonal interaction, you go to your peers. Poker is a different set of skills. There are no teachers, underlings, idiots. A player must understand how to learn from everyone. Just in the last 16 months in which I've taken poker as a serious hobby, I've had to re-learn how to learn. I've had to learn from old men, crazy old men, middle-aged doctors, middle-aged computer nerds, middle-aged midwestern businessmen, middle-aged movie producers, middle-aged businesswomen, women (woman actually) I've slept with, chess teachers, punk kid computer nerds, and punk kids who couldn't find my house if I wrote down the directions on a piece of paper and stuffed them in his jacket pocket. Some of these people have been better poker players than I am. Most of them have been worse. I'm not always learning about poker. I've learned [censored] you'll never learn in college, and it's [censored] that if I'd known it in college, it would have made the experience much more worthwhile. College is a great place to learn to interact with your peers, but it's a terrible place to learn how to interact with anyone else. Coming to terms with one's own morality and compassion comes though interacting with the largest possible cross-section of humanity, and I think poker offers this more than college ever could.
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#29
05-06-2006, 07:37 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
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College is a great place to learn to interact with your peers, but it's a terrible place to learn how to interact with anyone else. Coming to terms with one's own morality and compassion comes though interacting with the largest possible cross-section of humanity, and I think poker offers this more than college ever could. [/ QUOTE ] I think this is a serious stretch, especially if we're playing with online poker. I think your point about college teaching you how to interact with pretty much just your peers is a really solid one, but what cross-section of the world are we really seeing in online poker, and how much are we interacting with them? Not so much, for the most part, on both counts. EDIT: Also, I'd say that the people that one learns from, say, here, constitute a peer group in another fairly valid sense.
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#30
05-06-2006, 08:18 PM
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Re: Why I would quit my job if I won the Big One
If I won the Big One, I would quit my job to play poker because I like poker better than my job. I am selfish that way. My main interest in life is my family's happiness, and my own happiness.
After reading this pretentious [censored] that purports to give "philosophical and existential" reasons for playing poker, I couldn't decide whether to laugh or vomit. Unfortunately I ended up doing both. Flame away. It makes me happy.
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