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Message: [QUOTE="LukeSilver, post: 6878219, member: 59099"] So the exact jist of my situation is this, I have never had a job which pays well ever period. I am nearing my forties. I have a degree in accounting and finance which led nowhere and I am in the final year of an open university degree in maths and statistics. The best work in terms of pay that I ever had was an accounts payroll administrator position which once tax is factored in paid 3.5% more a month then the minimum wage they would legally be allowed to pay me. I literally spent more in transport to the job then I would have needed to if I had a local min wage job. I lost a lot of motivation and confidence for the working world through this job. It was a 2 hour commute each way and transport cost was £85 a month if I went the cheapest option which would make it 2 and a half hours commute each way or £220 if I went the more convenient trains which meant just two hours each way. The extra money after tax and deductions was £55 hence why I say having a local min wage job was a better choice. I put everything on hold for this job I put my degree as a lower priority my health and poker all behind this job in terms of priority. Why? few reasons one was I was told I could go hybride (work from home 3 days a week) after two months. this seemed viable I could write two days a week of when i went into the office but the other three days I could work from home and wake up later and be done with work and commuting earlier having 3 evenings I otherwise would not of. This was removed when i had completed my two months. I thought that this was a real career opportunity with real chance of progression I later found out that my colleague who had been there five years longer then me was on the same wage as me. Someone not so bright or who did not think this through properly would be like well they doing the same job so they should be on the same wage or good as should be. They may in fact get mad to find they were on higher wages. But the fact remains then if they didnt get a raise in all that time other then the inflation raise everyone got then that did not look good for me. When I asked the manager about this I got a very aggressive nasty response almost felt like I was been bollocked like a naughty school child, I wasn't asking for a raise there and then I was enquiring about future opportunities I could work towards I did not initiate the conversation they were calling each person in the team to discuss their moral and goals etc. I heard that only exceptional people get a raise or promotion etc and you have to be truly exceptional. that was the most promising and best job I had if it wasnt for the long commute eg it was local I would still be working there till this day. I cant navigate work place politics and spin maybe its due to my autism but my wage has always been either min wage or very close to. with very high pressure and lots of stress. some people most people say you need to earn twice the amount of what you can make from working the regular job in order to justify going full time pro in poker min wage in the UK is currently £10.42 this increases to £11.44 per hour in april. So by this logic I would need to make £20.84 an hour from online poker right now or £22.88 per hour from april from online poker. which would be $26.56 an hour or $29.16 an hour from april and that gets worse because in order to be realistic and fair I would need to also include poker study time as that hourly which means my playing time hourly would need to be even higher. I think though that a lot of people stick to generic rules because it avoids complicating the matter in shades of gray and deeper thought. I have worked for several temping agencies before and if you go to their websites they will tell you that they deeply vet and take on the best workers this is utter nonsense. They take whatever they can sell, if you have a cv with some experience and have not worked for five years they will get you temp work. Hence if I can make as good or better wages from online poker as min wage and the best work I can get is min wage without any career prospects then I see every reason why I should go for poker. If I can get a starting position as an actuary which would give me a guaranteed wage of what I think I can make from poker right now and a progression opportunity which could put me on a wage that I would have to work my ass of for and may never be able to achieve from online poker then online poker has to take a back seat for that. However these are the two extremes there is a lot of murky area in between these two extremes which is where the debate comes from. my last exam for the open university is sometime from end of may to mid june. My last assighment is end of may. My plan at the moment is to focus on my degree primarily until June. When that is done I can break down various different scenarios but I think it really depends what career opportunities I can get some it is clear cut put poker first others it is clear cut put the career first, but between the clear cuts there are shades of gray and debate I guess Will just have to see what happens. [/QUOTE]

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