Sometimes you find something in life you absolutely love. Something you're so passionate about and when you're partaking in it, the time flies by, in fact, you don't even notice the time. Sometimes you think to yourself that you would want to do that something for a living. That something for me is poker.

To be perfectly honest, I do have a great full-time real job. I work at my father and uncles' family owned 3rd generation ironwork business, potentially 4th if my cousin and I decide to take it over one day. The pay for me is good and I'm always getting a paycheck every week. We stay busy throughout most of the year. The thing is, I don't see myself taking it over and actually enjoying it for the rest of my life. It's a great business by all means but it's not totally in my interest and really it's not for me.

When I play poker, I tend to get into my own world of enjoyment and happiness, where I hardly experience that at my real job. It's a great feeling to be honest. Being able to do something that you love for a living must feel fantastic and I thought, why not me?

My plan is this: I am going to save up 6 to 12 month's worth of living expenses from my real job before I even step foot into the full-time poker mode. I am going to study the game 1 hour each day either through reading, watching videos or logging onto to R.I.O to learn. I am also going to play live at a local casino near by, each weekend so that my skills that I have acquired don't become rusty. When I play live on the weekends, I will play mostly NLHE cash games at the $1/$2 level and sometimes play in tourneys if their worth playing in. I was planning on attending this year's WSOP in late May, but I'm gonna cancel that out and save my money instead. It hurts to miss it, but saving money comes first. I wanna have enough money saved when I start this journey to take some stress off of this lifestyle, which requires money on a daily basis. 

The way I look at this whole thing is that I'm 25 years old and if I can't happen to maintain the poker full-time lifestyle, I'll go back to a real full-time job and keep poker as a profitable side hobby but I will be satisfied to know that I at least tried to do something I loved for a living. I don't want to live my life as a would'a, could'a, should'a type of person. That's just not me. 

I'm gonna prepare myself the best I can for the up's and downs that this game brings. In the end, whatever happens, happens and life will tell me if this is right for me or not. Hopefully it will be.