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I played poker full time, and made good money for a year and a half. Then one day, I woke up and hated it so bad I had a hard time breaking even. Then the government decided it hated poker too.

Now I'm looking for either a finance or consulting job. I have my BS in Operations Research from an ivy league school. Given how the job search is going, I'm planning on using my diploma as toilet paper. And I'm going to use the one from my master's of engineering to clean up real good (also in OR, from the same school).

Ive applied to numerous positions, and rarely even get a "thank you for applying" letter. I think the problem is that i, very unwisely, didn't do an internship.

Any advice on how to get more experience so that I could get one of these jobs would be much appreciated.