Suggestions required - positive things to say about poker on your cv

[DaveShoelace]

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

Working with those less fortunate - playing on PartyPoker

[bolt pp]

under previous employment put:

ship it holla

spin up ftw

donkaments

fck my life

busto

standard.

[tikay]

under previous employment put:

ship it holla

spin up ftw

donkaments

fck my life

busto

standard.

Great reply. Deserves a T-shirt. Almost.

[madasahatstand]

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

[Longy]

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.

[doubleup]

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.....

[Laxie]

under previous employment put:

ship it holla

spin up ftw

donkaments

fck my life

busto

standard.

Great reply. Deserves a T-shirt. Almost.

That's evil.  Almost. 

[boldie]

under previous employment put:

ship it holla

spin up ftw

donkaments

fck my life

busto

standard.

Great reply. Deserves a T-shirt. Almost.

that's just cruel.

[Snatiramas]

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

[doubleup]

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.