So i dropped out of school today...

[claudenm]

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Well Hizzle has already done it so maybe this advice will help some other 20 yr. old
1. You have a drinking problem
2. You sold weed
3. Your brother has a gambling problem
4. You cannot apply yourself to College, which is the most fun you will have in your life.
5. See a pattern here?
6. Live high stakes is not easier than online and will eat you alive.
7. Are you going to make 6 million in 3 years and retire? I think not.
8. You will never get a degree, almost every company only hires people with degree's for good jobs.
9. You probably should not be playing Poker at all with your compulsive behavior.
10. Good Luck but you will regret this decision within 2 years.

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NEWHIZZOWNED

[Trix]

There really isn´t any reason for you to stay in school if you dont think you gain anything in terms of education or socially, but it´s alot easier to get tired of poker when you quit, so beware of that.
Good luck.

[MicroBob]

Hey everyone. It's a BUMPED thread from a long time ago.

LOL at all the grunchers.


Also wanted to add:

Dear Newhizzle, Hope all goes well.
Good luck at this poker thing. Hope to see you at a WPT final-table someday.

[Oranzith]

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Basically, I have zero interest in school or any of my classes and feel like I am wasting my time here.

I really don’t have the motivation to do school work and get decent grades.


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I am in the same agre bracket as you, I am a 2nd year at UC Berkeley. The biggest thing that I think you are missing, from a peer to a peer, is that 'not having motivation to do well in school' is not the fault of the school, it is an inherent character flaw.

Motivation is what drives success, not being temporarily "interested" in anything. You think the people that are doing well in school actaully do well because they ENJOY it? No, they do it because they know that in the long run it increases their chance of being a success in life. Nobody likes school, looks forward to class or enjoys homework

If you are going to go down this road, you ought to at least accept that you are taking the easy way out

[stinkypete]

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Basically, I have zero interest in school or any of my classes and feel like I am wasting my time here.

I really don’t have the motivation to do school work and get decent grades.


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I am in the same agre bracket as you, I am a 2nd year at UC Berkeley. The biggest thing that I think you are missing, from a peer to a peer, is that 'not having motivation to do well in school' is not the fault of the school, it is an inherent character flaw.

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i don't see where newhizzle blamed the school. and i don't really see why your character is necessarily flawed just because you can find success doing something other than going to school for 16+ years.

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Motivation is what drives success, not being temporarily "interested" in anything. You think the people that are doing well in school actaully do well because they ENJOY it? No, they do it because they know that in the long run it increases their chance of being a success in life. Nobody likes school, looks forward to class or enjoys homework


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you're wrong about just about everything here. there's plenty of people that enjoy school. they're people that selected to study something they're actually interested in, rather than going for whatever they expect will make them the most money in the long run.

your idea of being a success in life obviously isn't the same as mark's.

he's doing something that he enjoys. he's motivated. he makes a ton of money, likely much more than he'd make in any other job. why do you have to do something boring as [censored] to be considered successful?

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If you are going to go down this road, you ought to at least accept that you are taking the easy way out

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sure it's the easy way out. but sometimes the easy way is the best way. why take the hard way when the end result is worse than the easy way?

you'll hate your job as much as you hate school. probably more. and you'll be miserable trying to be "a success in life".

[PokerBob]

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Basically, I have zero interest in school or any of my classes and feel like I am wasting my time here.

I really don’t have the motivation to do school work and get decent grades.


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I am in the same agre bracket as you, I am a 2nd year at UC Berkeley. The biggest thing that I think you are missing, from a peer to a peer, is that 'not having motivation to do well in school' is not the fault of the school, it is an inherent character flaw.

Motivation is what drives success, not being temporarily "interested" in anything. You think the people that are doing well in school actaully do well because they ENJOY it? No, they do it because they know that in the long run it increases their chance of being a success in life. Nobody likes school, looks forward to class or enjoys homework

If you are going to go down this road, you ought to at least accept that you are taking the easy way out

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wow. you are so wrong it is sick. most kids in college are just that; kids. they don't know what they want to do, yet many of them feel they MUST go to college because that is what people their age do. everyone matures at a different age. if college isn't for someone now, it doesn't mean that it won't be for them later.

my best friend failed out of UW-Milwaukee his freshman year. 10 years later he was a professor at Yale.

most of these posts must be coming from 'just out of high school' age people. Today you need a degree for even "almost minimum wage" jobs. you want to play poker, fine. but get a degree in something. you can take the garbage general studies classes the first 2 years anyway but to quit school 99.9% of the time you will regret.

[Oranzith]

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Basically, I have zero interest in school or any of my classes and feel like I am wasting my time here.

I really don’t have the motivation to do school work and get decent grades.


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I am in the same agre bracket as you, I am a 2nd year at UC Berkeley. The biggest thing that I think you are missing, from a peer to a peer, is that 'not having motivation to do well in school' is not the fault of the school, it is an inherent character flaw.

Motivation is what drives success, not being temporarily "interested" in anything. You think the people that are doing well in school actaully do well because they ENJOY it? No, they do it because they know that in the long run it increases their chance of being a success in life. Nobody likes school, looks forward to class or enjoys homework

If you are going to go down this road, you ought to at least accept that you are taking the easy way out

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wow. you are so wrong it is sick. most kids in college are just that; kids. they don't know what they want to do, yet many of them feel they MUST go to college because that is what people their age do. everyone matures at a different age. if college isn't for someone now, it doesn't mean that it won't be for them later.

my best friend failed out of UW-Milwaukee his freshman year. 10 years later he was a professor at Yale.

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Little long winded here -

What part of what i said was sickeningly wrong again? Dropping out of school because you "aren't interested and have no motivation" and think poker is the better financial move is different from the fact that most of us are in college because we "know" we should be there.

I am in college, I know my friends and peers. You are right, none of us really know what we are doing here towards what ends, but its the fact that we are doing something that is important.

Being at school because society and your parents expect you to be there is the same inner motivation necessary to get good grades, study hard and go to class. It's mostly an artificial motivation, the "strength to do what is right" so to say, and its hard to maintain, but everyone IS CAPABLE of it if they choose to be.


I guess what I am getting at is that believing that college isn't for you because you arent motivated to get good grades and dont love your classes is not valid a valid reason to quit school. If that was the case, there would be no one in our universities today, let alone anyone working probably 90% of the jobs in the US.

Does the person who works the toll booth on a bridge at 3 AM do it because they like it? No, they force themselves to go to work a bottom of the barrel job because their life depends on it. The same can be said for college.



And congratulations to your friend. What he did in that short of time is very impressive, and is exactly what i am talking about. he got his [censored] together, created the drive and got it done. What field did he get his PHD in? hopefully he received a contract that includes tenure, these days those are rare.

[DrPhysic]

My absolute favorite post appears on one or another of the 2+2 forums at least every couple of weeks. It goes sort of like this:

Going Pro

I have decided to go Pro!
I am (x)teen years old.
I only went to college because my mother made me.
I can’t decide on a major.
I hate collage.
I have no intersts, skills, or experience, and poker is more fun than working.
I have played on line for 3 months. (Instead of going to class or doing homework.)
That stats course was eating me up anyway.
Why do they make you take Psych101? (That’s not a science!)
I won 53% ITM in SNGs and a MTT last week.
I am already making more than I did at McDonalds. (substitute fast food joint of choice.)
Driving up to my WPT events in a new Ferrari would be the bomb! I think I’ll buy one with my winnings.
My budget shouldn’t be important, I can just eat in the casino buffet out of today’s profit.
How do I convince mom to support me while I get started instead of wasting the money on college?
Where is the best place to move to, to play? (I can’t decide between Mass, NJ, or LV.)
Is B&M poker as easy as this on line stuff?
Any advice from REAL pros wood be good. None of you e-players though, I only want to hear from people who have been on TV.

TIA

Chum

Footnotes:
Mis-spellings intentional.
Names changed to protect the guilty.
Chum is cut up bloody pieces of dead fish thrown in the water to attract sharks.

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(Note: RePosted from STTForum about a year ago.)

[mike l.]

"Does the person who works the toll booth on a bridge at 3 AM do it because they like it?"

that job might be kinda cool. certainly a lot better than substitute teaching high school, something a lot of my college grad friends have done, as well as me..