Quitting my crap job to grind 2/5+ live??

[DarkForceRising]

bernie,

I hear ya and I know your thoughts are well-intentioned. However, the subject here is 23 years old, evidently unmarried and without children. He has an education and some money in the bank. Why not take a shot?

Every day of my miserable 38 year old life, I regret not packing up and leaving when I was the OP's age. He will most assuredly take his lumps but that's how we learn. Providing he is being honest here, and is not prone to getting into the drug scene or turning losing nights into even bigger ones playing pit games, I would hate to see him approach his dreams too conservatively.

Let's say he decides to prove himself by grinding micro stakes for a certain period of time. Let's further suppose he plays like a champ and eats [censored] for 100,000 hands. He could wind up so discouraged he may wind up saying "f poker and moving to Vegas"- ultimately settling for a hum-drum ordinary life- always wondering about "what could have been".

He's young and in a rut. Why not get out in the world and have some fun?