Before I go my sob story, I want to iterate that my life is good, I have gratitude for the many wonderful things in my life. I've got a good sex life, I've got my health and a good group of friends, not to mention the family that is RVF. But here goes..
I have been a professional poker player for about 2.5 years now, and a couple months ago I went on a disgusting downswing which cost me about 90% of my entire living bank roll. It was a combination of disgusting luck and some poor play. Most of you know Texas Hold 'Em as the game of poker, but I have played Omaha (different variant) in the last 6 months. I lost about 25k and it has destroyed my confidence, and my passion for the game.
What I had planned on doing is transition from the casino to online poker, so that I may move abroad to Vietnam or Thailand and make money from online poker. But the downswing has both destroyed my confidence and my passion for the game. I have considered playing under a coach to up my game, but I don't have the passion for it anymore, and I never had the talent.
I spent the last 3-4 hours flipping through the forum looking at how to make money, how to regain confidence and I came across a few helpful threads such as
Cleanslate's online service based business
Weekend Casanova's Dropshipping Datasheet
My problems are twofold.
First, I don't know how to make money beyond playing poker.
Second, I have crushing self doubt on my ability to make money any other way.
Since I have been poor my whole life, poker was the only way I identified with making money. I worked lots of customer service jobs and such, but not good money. Now that I question my ability to make money through poker, I feel incapable of making money at all.
In Game, it was simple. Start out as a chode, make a few approaches and a girl would give you a positive reaction. Snowball that positive reaction into other girls, eventually getting phone #'s, dates, make outs and sleeping with them....and you suddenly stopped seeing yourself as a chode. This is what worked for me. I eventually got a couple cute girls to sleep with me, and voila self confidence with women was born.
With money however, I can't look back at a place and time that I was making good money at all in my life, beside these couple years of playing poker. So I cannot 'trick' myself into having confidence.
This was pretty difficult to write out, but I woke up this morning looked into the mirror and realized consciously I do not trust myself. It was a terrible, awe-inspiring feeling.
I don't know what skills I have, considering I worked at mostly coffee shops/daycare stuff with kids. If I were to get a job, I imagine sales would be the best money earning potential for someone who only has a 2 year degree? I have considered Amazon FBA (I have a friend who does modestly well as a side hustle) or copy writing (I've seen some forum members have success on here) but the crux of the issue is I don't believe in myself or my capabilities to make money. The end goal would be have some way of making money online, and living abroad within 2-3 years.
I have been a professional poker player for about 2.5 years now, and a couple months ago I went on a disgusting downswing which cost me about 90% of my entire living bank roll. It was a combination of disgusting luck and some poor play. Most of you know Texas Hold 'Em as the game of poker, but I have played Omaha (different variant) in the last 6 months. I lost about 25k and it has destroyed my confidence, and my passion for the game.
What I had planned on doing is transition from the casino to online poker, so that I may move abroad to Vietnam or Thailand and make money from online poker. But the downswing has both destroyed my confidence and my passion for the game. I have considered playing under a coach to up my game, but I don't have the passion for it anymore, and I never had the talent.
I spent the last 3-4 hours flipping through the forum looking at how to make money, how to regain confidence and I came across a few helpful threads such as
Cleanslate's online service based business
Weekend Casanova's Dropshipping Datasheet
My problems are twofold.
First, I don't know how to make money beyond playing poker.
Second, I have crushing self doubt on my ability to make money any other way.
Since I have been poor my whole life, poker was the only way I identified with making money. I worked lots of customer service jobs and such, but not good money. Now that I question my ability to make money through poker, I feel incapable of making money at all.
In Game, it was simple. Start out as a chode, make a few approaches and a girl would give you a positive reaction. Snowball that positive reaction into other girls, eventually getting phone #'s, dates, make outs and sleeping with them....and you suddenly stopped seeing yourself as a chode. This is what worked for me. I eventually got a couple cute girls to sleep with me, and voila self confidence with women was born.
With money however, I can't look back at a place and time that I was making good money at all in my life, beside these couple years of playing poker. So I cannot 'trick' myself into having confidence.
This was pretty difficult to write out, but I woke up this morning looked into the mirror and realized consciously I do not trust myself. It was a terrible, awe-inspiring feeling.
I don't know what skills I have, considering I worked at mostly coffee shops/daycare stuff with kids. If I were to get a job, I imagine sales would be the best money earning potential for someone who only has a 2 year degree? I have considered Amazon FBA (I have a friend who does modestly well as a side hustle) or copy writing (I've seen some forum members have success on here) but the crux of the issue is I don't believe in myself or my capabilities to make money. The end goal would be have some way of making money online, and living abroad within 2-3 years.