I got a sick work ethic even though I was hangover and didnt play for ages :D
My stats are prolly gay and my game was all over the place, any comments on the stats? I feel weird in even semi marginal spots like flopping midpairs on meh flops etc
This shit is so addictive btw, I will put in 3ish hours tomorrow and restrict myself to one hour per day during the week, BR at $90 hopefully will have a hundo by the end of tomorrow to go for NL5
This never occured to me. . .Be it in poker, as a goalkeeper, admin,baker or in my academic career I always was motivated by things I do for myself... and it was never strong enough.
It's impossible to do in poker, no teams, you play against others, it's a zero sum game. . .
But it occured to me now. I am in direct sales. My manager is the best one I ever had. He's 32 and has been in the business for 12 odd years, he never stopped believing in me and no matter how shit my results are he always reminds me of the positives in me and really gets the best out of me. But he had a bad streak of luck, where his recruits were lazy, left early or his whole division of products got scrapped and he had to start from the bottom again completely.
He's got very refined monetary goals, where I just don't give a fuck because of poker thought me. . . money doesn't matter it's just a number, it's the happiness and self respect/self esteem that is the only commodity worth pursuing, I'm very detached from the real world value of it. But that left me without a strong motivator in a job where everyone is driven by money and everybody's goal is to have a 20 strong office and make $10k per week and so today when I got pissed with some of the veterans it hit me. . .if I can't find my own goals I just make one to selflessly help my manager to get where he wants to be. I will do my best in terms of my results and motivate the lazy fuckers in his team including myself because that's one thing I believe I am a bit better positioned to do that he is because he is always so nice to everyone.
Just imagine it . . . you work 100% to help the person that supported you in the bad times and put time and money into you and got you to where you are, and as a side effect you get both awesome money but also a truckload of motivation you just can't generate yourself for your own goals. It's that element I miss in poker a bit but that seems to be so obvious in a team environment with a person I respect that became my friend
I like trance, hip hop (old school), etc. what albums would you recommend for me guys?
Btw, for a small update: love my new job, pretty much a surveyor for insulation/later going to turn into green deal advisor for grants for boilers/solar panels and home efficiency etc. New people are all around 20 which makes it more fun, and my managers are 30++ unlike my last office where mu MD was 26 -,-
My off on chick is gone now, I'm studying picking up girls psychology and communication to get a new one, it's all about the law of averages imo
temporary gf?
So I met this chick the other day. She is leaving for a month in a couple weeks and then goes to New Zealand to work on a dairy farm in October.
She is super independent, always wants to pay doesn't like door holding and this kind of stuff, and we rarely text or phone :O
We agreed we will only have fun, and click together very well, always end up having deep drunk convos for some reason. We went for a hike, barbecue, a Scottish film and a walk around the city, she even came over a couple nights but it was that time of the month which is pretty frustrating (for her too, she told me herself :D)
I still want to see how this turns out, with me being busy and she working in a care home we can basically do just booty calls after 9pm - a refreshing change after a 3.5y of serious relationship. Still it's a new situation for me knowing the relationship has no future - can you see any drawbacks/have any experience with this kind of stuff?
new job
Well that didn't take long.
Chose to sell insulation door to door with a marketing company that does outsourcing for big companies. Basically going door to door, measuring lofts, and signing people up for a mostly free loft and wall insulation paid by government grants. There is training for 2 hours every day, I want to learn and not take it just as a job, but will have to spend there 11hr/day.
Still more likely to take on poker on the weekends this time, my last job was never over and I had to prospect new companies almost always. I'm waiting for my salary from my last job and will start at NL10 a few hours per week - watch out for new hands and overanalysis of micros
P.S. This no fap thing is ridiculous, I can't last a day how the fuck do you guys do it?
My first sales job.
It was a great experience I must say, fun people working around me, people helping each other out, lots of nights out and I got my life motivation sky high again - lost some 15kg since Xmas and got proper social life with sports and going out again :O
Just the results lacked especially in terms of numbers - I got good at selling finally in the last month, got a contract in last week, solid processes but never really got hang of the admin side of things (which there was surprisingly a high amount of I must say), and it was making me nervous when I was actually selling.
But I feel like I have a great foundation to build on and will defo keep rock&rolling, I built a sick work ethic at some 11hr/day, (I feel it's sustainable, never missed floorball, 3x+ gym per week and going out with friends weekly. . . Apart from the couple weeks around the girlfriend fiasco that you can read about on my teamliquid blog) learned a ton about the sales process and know what to expect now.
I got an interview tomorrow with some slightly shady outsourced sales hustlers (The "MD" is Romanian, and doesn't even have Linkedin profile lol), I don't give a fuck as long as I keep the momentum going - I drank my first coffee last week in ages and don't plan on stopping. Besides, they will let me do things my way.
That's why I chose sales - it's so easy to get a job, hard to keep it when you hit a bad streak, reminds you of something perhaps?
P.S. Got a cold, so annoying
Also, met a Scottish girl some time ago - made out a bit and hopefully will see her this week :O
She's proper crazy, travelling all over the world, doing bungee, scuba diving, even went to Seychelles on her own once just for the sake of it and is going to work on a dairy farm in New Zealand in October.
You know - lives her life, something I feel I haven't been doing properly, and sales is similar to poker, as it gives you the freedom to do so, there is no excuse.
P.P.S.
There might be some time for poker as well, I had to work weekends too, but my next jobs should have them free - I will put $100 in and build that bitch up again and see where it takes me.
10k posts! I was thinking about what to write about, and I will just go with totally random blog about what I learned the past few weeks.
My new job is starting tomorrow, or might I dare to say: Career. I am going to be a salesman, or 'assistant buyer' or 'sales consultant' as people in the profession like to call themselves. After a month of studying, watching the entire US Office, every single sales movie there is, hours of audios and four books I am very excited to get cracking.
There are a lot of similarities to poker - the need to focus on the process and eliminate fear of failure, steep learning curve, easy to get in, hard to stay and make it, short term variance, and pretty much identical learning process: Read books, listen to audios, talk to other salesmen, learn from your mistakes and tons of opportunities to try new approaches with every new sales call.
Perhaps the greatest lesson that resonates among every resource I read and that is directly applicable to poker is the importance of positive self-image. A while back there was a huge discussion about Wobbly, and how delusional the bastard is in believing he is the best. Turns out that exactly that is what makes him and other people successful - you will never become what you don't believe in, and when you don't fear failure you will take action instead of procrastinating. Experiments in Social Psychology have shown that people that have a very strong, even over the top self belief in themselves are really more successful and happier than those that don't, even though the side effect often is what happened to Wobbly - this belief will antagonize some people if you take it too far.
Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will help you do everything better than negative thinking will Zig Ziglar
Oh well poker world, that was pretty random wasn't it I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
Breaking up with my gf had among others one negative impact: As we shared rent my fixed costs of living pretty much doubled overnight.
I spent fulltime job hunting and got derailed in December when I had to go back home, and was forced to withdraw everything to pay my rent. Now I asked my dad for a loan, and have jobseekers allowance for temp job but for some reason employers don't want to train you when you will work for only three weeks for them. So I have 20 days until my job starts, and 50days until I get my first salary, dead job market for temp jobs (you need to sit in exams and pay several hundred $ to be able to work manually here as you need some CSC card), and maxed overdraft with barely enough money for food.
Well, I'm pretty used to being broke and I know I will pwn at the job, and if I learned anything from poker it's dealing with failure - I only have to negotiate an extension on next month's rent, and will still try to get some temp job quick (I have to keep applying and calling employers to keep my jobseekers allowance - £50/week).
But in the meantime what is the only income available to me? Yep, poker time! All I could spare was £50 - a solid NL2 roll.
Solid 2.5 days of grind later, between sending CVs calling people and studying books, online articles and audios on sales: NL5 here we come. I am where I started - putting in volume and building from the ground up.
I am literally playing for cheeseburgers now, or else I die of hunger
Was with her for over 3 years, living together for some two and a half.
Did you have to deal with this kind of a thing before and how did you do it? Did you stay friends?
She was the first girl i was serious with, planning to get kids and grow old with and everything..
pic or gtfo? Here's a recent one:
My job starts in one month, I got the gig and the Norwegian tech company. What I'll be doing in first few months is almost pure cold calling to businesses, finding new prospects and closing with existing ones after a trial of the product is given to them for a few months. It's a life consuming job where you are expected to socialize and party with your co workers a ton and be very busy, I can't wait to start
I have decided to go for sales, pretty much it's a mix between talking to people where I can use the psychology stuff I studied. I worked in finance in a large dull corporation before and it was well... all that the phrase office drone means and this is just so much better on paper (although hard work).
But also It's good for the bottom line and sick fast progression if you work like a madman (going to Managing director with your own branch in 1-2 years is pretty common)
I already got accepted to a purely commission based marketing company that sells broadband door to door and got 2 days long interview and a long phone call for a sick good Norwegian tech company that started 10 years ago and creates software as a service analysis of news, social networks and some other stuff.
Fingers crossed innit; the second one is pretty much flawless and they put a lot of emphasis on fun, and if I want I can point at a country and pretty much go there as they are all over the world and the Edinburgh office has Norwegians, Russians, Canadians and have a sick good portfolio like HP Coca Cola Gucci etc...
Although going into the wild and selling door to door and chatting with so many random people would be just a great thing for social skills and for getting better at chatting up the ladies, I wouldn't mind it either. I had a full day experience and you really meet some weirdos but in general people in Scotland are really friendly to sales people.
Tell me what you think guys. I will put poker on hold for now, especially in the first couple of months when I will need to learn the ropes and get into management and build proper capital ASAP. I got £3k student debt and I want that gone and then put some money into a roll to play on the side, at limits I should be playing if I didn't cash out - NL50-NL100.
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I felt I had to post a semi-meaningful 10k post and not waste it on the Tutz banned thread. Peace ut LP
