Re: Put poker on resume?
Umm.... no.
If there's one thing you'll learn about the "corporate environment" (other than watching Office Space, I mean) once you get out of college, it's that the people who get up the ladder (the ones who will be looking at your resume) are usually the "safe" ones. The conservative ones. The yes-men that aren't threatening to their superiors.
The risk-takers, the people who live life on the edge, the people who would look at a professional poker player as somebody to be respected? They're all off starting their own companies. They're the ones running the small companies, who don't need to hire and brainwash college yuppies so they can get people to properly fill out their TPS cover sheets. These people don't waste their time sifting through bland resumes from a job fair. In fact, they probably wouldn't hire somebody right out of college in the first place.
The people at this job fair will not be impressed by your "hobby", no matter how much money you've made. To them, you're threatening. You're a loose cannon. Someone not to be trusted.
Don't put this on your resume. The only things that will impress them will be working 14 hour days for zero overtime, and being a scratch golfer. Other than that, their heads are solidly buried in the sand.
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