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[QUOTE="baudib1, post: 2159934, member: 47606"]
Probably not.

You probably need to be playing big and juicy 2/5 games like 70 hours a week to match your $40K a year job, and that's being generous. That's a rate of about $11-$12 an hour, and figuring 25 hands per hour, that's about about 8-9 BB/100, which is positively crushing. This isn't counting stuff like various poker-related expenses.

Really, you need to be crushing $5-$10 to have the freedom and money you're dreaming of.

Recommendations:
1. You need to play online, I'd recommend getting in a couple million hands at microstakes and above before setting out to play for a living. 
2. If you do go for it, start out with a minimum of 6 months living expenses (rent, food, etc) and a separate poker bankroll of 50 buyins for the level you are playing (i.e. $25,000 at $2-$5).
If this sounds like a tough task, it is. Build up your bankroll, and then take shots at bigger games perhaps through a staking arrangement. If you have to play with the stress of paying the rent and eating, then you aren't going to play optimally. You just aren't.
3. I'd get a part-time job that you don't HATE that will pay some of your expenses and also some insurance. Something like Starbucks.

good luck
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