 Can unemployed playing poker?
I’ve toyed with the idea of going pro or at least seriously semipro. At the end of the day, my motivation is as much my own frustrations trying to cope with ADHD in the conventional workplace as any illusion that poker is a glamorous lifestyle.
I think the ideal for me would be to have poker as one of several income streams (thanks to Nick Grudzien for the term, although I don’t play enough limit to buy his book; but the concept was already well-formed when I read that section in a bookstore). My present career, Web development, could lend itself to freelancing. But setting up a freelancing business is a ton of work, and I’d rather spend my free time from my day job playing poker than building up a freelancing business.
The difficulty with measuring one’s own ability is what’s really driven me crazy, and probably prevented me from devoting more time to poker. I have a pretty good sense when I’m running bad in B&M poker, because I can identify many mistakes in a typical $1-2 game. But online, I start to question whether I’m really good enough to beat NL25.
For now, I’m not aiming at playing full-time, but I am aiming at rearranging my career so
(1) I’m geographically closer to casinos
(2) I can more easily take three months at a time to play full time, either by
(a) contracting
(b) by working in one place long enough to request a sabbatical
(c) changing careers to something situated around the academic year so I have summers relatively free
(3) A more ADHD-friendly day job or career
At any rate, that’s my story — hope it’s useful to someone in the same boat.
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