Wee...Today my team's manager said that he wants to see me alone and...I am getting £300/$450 extra out of the blue for my 5 months of hard work in 2009 :D
Its crap money you might say, but you must realise that I am on a student placement with 11 month fixed contract with no prior experience in my first non-menial job. The group our company is under (Lloyds Banking Group) made a combined loss of $9,000,000,000 last year, and there is nothing about bonuses in my contract at all.
Ship it, I don't even have to unlock it :o
Boring Life stuff
I am really glad that I decided to go for the placement. I have only 3.5 months left and I have to start writing reports to University, but thats irrelevant. What is really useful is the day to day stuff, time management, talking to people and a professional attitude that I pick up.
I will try to get a 1:1 (70%+ in all subjects combined) degree next year when I do my Honours project.
And my parents and GF wouldn't be glad to hear it, but I am doing this to have a real shot at Poker.
How will good degree and 1 work experience with good references help me in Poker?
Well its simple. I basically want to choose something I can do long term, and in poker that means to have the goal of being a high stakes/nosebleed player.
But from what I have seen its so damn hard when you are at NL100-NL400 to not be entangled with the burden of day to day expenses and the fact that Poker is your only solid option in life.
I want to think deep, play many variants, have proper swings and deal with them and never stop learning. But for that you can't keep it safe and grind your SNE and live off of rakeback, you have to take chances, take the hard way of thinking poker on few tables and take shots.
And thats something I couldn't do if I knew that if I am breakeven for longer time or busto...I am fucked.
Call it options in life, call it a safety net, but when I finish with the uni 1.3 years from now, I am sure that it will help me to go berserk and give Poker my best.
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