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I got a phone call from my former employer asking if I wanted to send them a CV.  I've really struggled the last 5 months or so and although I don't really have bankroll concerns I'm not sure that it makes sense to put in hours at low level cash or MTTs when I could earn just as much working. Soooooo..

I have about 18 months on the cv under "internet poker" - what positive work related comments can be made about this?  I'm thinking discipline (lets hope they don't know about Riverdave), ability to adapt to change, take on board new ideas.

Anyone else got any other ideas?

tell them you are a degen gambler, and if you have a big score on a sunday MTT they will be re advertising the vacancy :D


I would rather say I have been travelling/working on a remote kibutz in some random third world country like wales ...

Don't put it on you won't get the job, follow Kev's suggestion.......

what kev said

Nah they know thats what I've been doing - so its just a matter of putting a positive spin on it.

If THEY contacted YOU, put what the fk you like!

  ;iagree;

Not sure u can put a + spin on it, poker to those who don't play it is simply just gambling thats how they see it if you've already been there and they got in touch with you are u not confident ur good 4 a job there

Say you were dealing it, lol.

Just say you were a professional poker player

I am confident but I was confident I was going to win a pot yesterday when I got the money in with AAxx vs 2xxx on at 22Ax turn......

Cmom guys we spend fckin hours on this stuff please tell me some of you think that some skills get developed that are useful.  What about "good at accepting feedback" - surely ppl tell you how badly you play all the time? :)

financial analysis & budgeting = bankroll management
in depth decision making - making reads

- Helped you become a decision maker not a ditherer.
- Fast Mathematical analysis based on variable criteria
- Adaptable decisioon making based on ever changing information, makes for a more flexible decision Manager
- Money Manager, employing game selection
- Time Management - knowing when decisions become bad or clouded
- People Management (people reading skills can be directly imported to the meeting room :))

Best of Luck

stoneii

Probably best to say you were in prison for something (bank robbery or gold heist - something with a bit of old-school glamour)

I believe the conventional line is "Playing piano in a brothel"

Working with those less fortunate - playing on PartyPoker

under previous employment put:

ship it holla

spin up ftw

donkaments

fck my life

busto

standard.

Great reply. Deserves a T-shirt. Almost.

Good with figures and analytical approach to problem solving :)  Patient, deliberate and visionary......


Good luck in your return to the dark side :) Im sure you will enjoy the company :)

Hates working with people.

Likes having no sleeping pattern at all.

Has no ambition.

Can't stand the thought of working 9-5.


O wait i have just described myself,nhioerhgfioerhgioheiohgioerh.

y I'm pretty much meh about the whole thing, but in 12 months time I can reassess.....

That's evil.  Almost. 

that's just cruel.

So I am sitting at a final interview for the job I now hold.....I have had four hours of interviews with 3 different teams of interviewers. I know I am close. I can taste it............when out of nowhere the Finance director asks me "You have a strange hobby don't you?"

Bugger they have found out about my sexual deviance........but no they had googled my name and come up with a whole load of poker entries. Great that's blown it.

So I tell the whole story of how I got started on the game. It went as follows.

"Well Peter. On my fortieth birthday somebody came up to me at work and said "Forty then Phil.....well it's all downhill from here". Now to be honest with you I didn't feel that I had finished going up hill so I decided I needed a new challenge". I was reading the paper and looked down and there was this story about these lunatics who were about to play in the World Series of poker which cost $10000 just to sit down at the table. So I decided that even though I had never played the game I would learn how to play and set myself a target of playing in the WSOP on my fiftieth birthday.

So I bought some books and played on the internet and started playing at my local casino in Luton and I soon found out that I was a lucky player who won more than my share. Whilst doing all of this Peter I realised that the game broke down into three main areas for me.......cards, numbers and people. The cards of course you can't influence but you can choose when you use them which requires judgement. The numbers which involve rapid calculation and assessment of risk and of course the people and knowing when to push and when to back off .

Peter when you look at it analytically it is fairly close to what you are about to ask me to do as a UK sales manager"

So Peter thinks for a minute and looks at me and asks "Do you think you will qualify for your fiftieth birthday?"
To which I had the pleasure of replying "I was lucky enough to do it on my 43rd".

I get sent out the room whilst the six interviewers all compared notes. Fifteen minutes later we start negotiating my package. Apparently Peter was impressed that I had got to my goal seven years early.

The game is a great game. Explain it to people. Explain the judgement required to play it. Explain how you set yourself a goal to play instead of working to prove that you could but it wasn't as much fun as you thought it would be. I use the line that I play because I want to play not because I have to. You were playing because you have to. It is a completely different mindset.

Most of all if you want the job show the same passion for the position as you do for the game......you can't fail and the game will always be there........good luck

Got offered the job anyway - put some pish down on the cv about discipline and development and tried to sell the idea that it was just like a real job at the interview but it sounded like complete bs as it was coming out of my mouth (as was everyting else I said).  Pretty sure I wouldn't have got the offer without a previous connection.  Almost def going to take it even tho I've started to run good again and spend the time working on my game by playing 2 tables max and thinking more about whats going on without the pressure of having to make money.