Wait, let me see if I got this straight. You get paid to go to college? And yet you are going to quit? AND you have the gall to brag about how the aussie system beats the crap outta the american one? GEEZUSSS H KEERIST!!!! I know you're new here and all, and I hate to rag on someone I don't really know yet, but damn, if you had any idea how hard it is for a lot of people who have to pay for school to actually go, I think you'd have a better appreciation for your situation and take advantage of it. I tried to go to college 3 different times but ran out of money each time and had to drop out. I ended up in the military, got married, had kids and never managed to get back to school at an age where a degree would do me much good. Got a decent paying job with the govt and hello lower middle class for life.

Seriously man, I know I sound like an old fart here chewin your ass, but I can't stress enough how much I wish for your sake you'd reconsider your choice to drop out. If nothing else, stay in school and get something like a liberal arts degree so you can go into about any field you decide you like later on.

Good luck with the poker if that really is the path you choose. I hope you have as much success with it as Roy. (the scuba teaching job sounds like a cool thing to do too, whats that pay a year?)

phil,

a lot of people look at university as a time to develop their knowledge about some specific area. while that is certainly one benefit of uni, it's only one and is often one of the least important (at least for certain people).

uni is a time that people can use to develop certain life skills (e.g., time management, discipline, etc.), social skills (e.g., learning how to deal with assholes, learning how to navigate a hierarchy, etc.), and other non-academic related things.

the beauty of the university scenario is that there is often very little downside (i.e., price to pay when you screw up), while there can be a lot of upside (e.g., connections for nice jobs, better life skills, better social skills, etc.).

most university degrees are ridiculously easy these days (depends on the major), and i know that in the u.s., there's absolutely no reason to think that a person can't go to college and play A LOT of poker at the same time (e.g., i know a doctoral student at a prestigious american university who made half a million last year).

look at uni as a kind of sand box for social development that you'll never get a chance to access again. there's a lot to experience, and there are many opportunities that a generic degree will open doors for.

i wish you luck in your endeavors, but i really worry that if you can't focus on something as simple as university, then you'll REALLY have trouble focusing on something as complex as poker.

If it doesn't interest me and doesn't challenge me, I lose it. At high school I was challenged, had lots of competition, and achieved top 5 places in virtually every subject. I loved it to bits, I would go back there gladly. ^^ And I'm glad that wherever I go I seem to spark debate lol. It's fun!

But university, it's just GAH. Yes, I know you guys have to pay for college, and I do feel like an ass abusing the system here when you guys have such hardships and for that I do apologize if I sounded arrogant, but it's just so stupid. Sitting there for lectures every week, in the science field you learn the EXACT same things OVER AND OVER just in more detail, you can grab the entire textbook and memorize the entire coursework over 3 days max.

Social development? I develop myself all the time, I really can deal with virtually anyone and I purposely make my life hard to test myself, I go out constantly, I learn all the time, make new friends whenever possible, but I really can't find anything challenging. That's why I am so undecesive about where the hell I am going in life.

And then at the end of it, you get a full-time job with decent income to do what? It's just a fallacy to have lots of money, I already know I don't care about money. It's like a trap, that you have to have this by this age, or that by another. People forget that you have to live life as well, and honestly, you limit yourself.

I just want a job I enjoy and where I find happiness. I want to be experienced in life, not wishing I had done this or that. That is what I care about most, just to be happy, and so I'm exploring alternatives, one of which being poker. It would definitely give me the money so I wouldn't have to worry about things, but well, I won't kill myself if it won't work out. Scuba diving is therefore one of the options, it would be a 3 month course to be an instructor, and it's heaps of fun.

But you guys saying no is a huge incentive, generally when people say I can't do things I push myself to prove them wrong, like moving to another state to be with a girl lol. ^^

As for today, sorry Roy, I only have 3 hands for you.
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I achieved my goal today, +$20 on 2c/5c, 9-tabling the 6-max, despite my $10 loss in the morning. I''ve raised my aggression levels for you about 75%, but I think it's still weak. I am stealing 7c blinds now and cbing for steals in position, so I feel it has improved my game slightly. Talk to you later about my stats perhaps, 2.5k hands isn't a large sample though so meh.

Love to all! I like this forum, just because I can make long posts about my life and help me rethink things. I'm going to like it a lot.