phreak
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I have accepted the fact that I need a job, sometime in the future and preferably sooner rather than later. I graduated college with a BBA in Economics from a crappy state school. Never really had a choice because my grandparents, parents, and siblings are all alumni. It's a small town thing. Anyway, education is what you make of it. I'm 22 now and don't have much to offer in a traditional sense. I paid my way though completely by myself; tuition, living expenses, books, car. Everything.
I had an internship with a local bank and was introduced to most positions that weren't executive level. It was a great experience. Everyone was really friendly and I have a few great references out of it. But I quit after I graduated (6 months ago) for some reason.
Most money came from online poker though. I could make 1-4k per month depending on how much I played, and how much stress I could tolerate. That's what I'm doing now to live. Online poker is the most mentally draining thing I have ever done. After a long session my mind is fried and I'm worthless for a few hours. I would say '*******' and live off that but I'm not making what I want, and I'm not good enough to move up limits. And for those who are not familiar, a winning player at NL100 is better than probably 97% of the players online. It's kinda a big deal.
My stock trading I believe is also relevant. Since April of '08, when I started, I have had a stupid good return. I have only trade financial stocks so maybe I was a bit lucky along the way but I was killing it when things were bad too. Trading is a common endpoint for poker players because many of the skills are transferable. Also you need some money to start, which poker provides.
It feels like my degree is close to worthless at this point, and honestly it's not like we learned enough applicable stuff where Econ undergrad majors have an purpose. I made a 720 on my GMAT after studying for about two weeks. Probably did a little better than expected. I'm not even sure I could get in a good grad school with that though, with my ****** education and limited work experience. And I don't know if I could pay for it even if I did get accepted. I would prefer to not have 80k debt coming out of it :/
The best job I could realistically get would probably pay 35k, and I've turned down two after they offered my 30. I'm gonna be in Houston, so I could live off of that but would be poor. **** that.
http://www.db.com/careers/content/en...lide=slide1003
^ This is very similar to what I want although I have absolutely zero chance of being offered a position. It's just frustrating.
At this point I think getting my Master's is the only option. It feels like I'm gonna be a broke student for a couple of years, then reevaluate my situation. What do you guys think?
I had an internship with a local bank and was introduced to most positions that weren't executive level. It was a great experience. Everyone was really friendly and I have a few great references out of it. But I quit after I graduated (6 months ago) for some reason.
Most money came from online poker though. I could make 1-4k per month depending on how much I played, and how much stress I could tolerate. That's what I'm doing now to live. Online poker is the most mentally draining thing I have ever done. After a long session my mind is fried and I'm worthless for a few hours. I would say '*******' and live off that but I'm not making what I want, and I'm not good enough to move up limits. And for those who are not familiar, a winning player at NL100 is better than probably 97% of the players online. It's kinda a big deal.
My stock trading I believe is also relevant. Since April of '08, when I started, I have had a stupid good return. I have only trade financial stocks so maybe I was a bit lucky along the way but I was killing it when things were bad too. Trading is a common endpoint for poker players because many of the skills are transferable. Also you need some money to start, which poker provides.
It feels like my degree is close to worthless at this point, and honestly it's not like we learned enough applicable stuff where Econ undergrad majors have an purpose. I made a 720 on my GMAT after studying for about two weeks. Probably did a little better than expected. I'm not even sure I could get in a good grad school with that though, with my ****** education and limited work experience. And I don't know if I could pay for it even if I did get accepted. I would prefer to not have 80k debt coming out of it :/
The best job I could realistically get would probably pay 35k, and I've turned down two after they offered my 30. I'm gonna be in Houston, so I could live off of that but would be poor. **** that.
http://www.db.com/careers/content/en...lide=slide1003
^ This is very similar to what I want although I have absolutely zero chance of being offered a position. It's just frustrating.
At this point I think getting my Master's is the only option. It feels like I'm gonna be a broke student for a couple of years, then reevaluate my situation. What do you guys think?