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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (103194)	1/20/2006 12:35:51 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (15) \| Respond to of 132070

I am leaving the stock brokerage business at the end of the month. It just isn't my cup of tea. I kept saying, when I hit this number or accomplish that, it will get better. And there's always another number and never a better. <G> I actually love about 85% of what I do at work every day. But the other 15% really stinks. And the 15% is starting to encroach on the 85%. The investment side is shrinking in focus and the legal compliance and financial handholding side is increasing. I have great respect for the folks who make it in this business without hanging themselves, and there are many of them. If I needed the money, I could stay on. But, I want to give playing poker online full time a shot, to see if I can do as well 8 hours a day as I do for one or two hours a day. I will continue to post on SI, and in Feb, my writing will no longer be restrained. I will not spend as much time as I did before I took a job, as poker will be my job. But I will be freer to tell it like it is. For my clients, thanks for the support and I hope you like the new brokers assigned to your accounts. I will be introducing a few folks, when we can get 3 time schedules to allow. I feel like a gorilla is off my back. <G>