I do not know why, but I cannot get my cursor to jump into the Title line of this post. That is weird. I gave up on trying to accomplish that, so I will move on.
Work seems a little better, but the stress is very high for me. But, all the stress is self inflicted at this point and it is hard for me not to feel it. I know I am not alone in feeling stress from any changes in life, jobs, marriage, etc; and I am sure I can get past this eventually.
I appreciate all the advise I have received over the past couple months and especially in the past few weeks after beginning my new job. It will take sometime to get over all of this and begin to have full confidence in what I am doing, but I hope the transition is quick. I had the same feeling when I left Jewel for CI at the beginning, the only difference was that I did not realize I was not going to have to do a lot of thinking/decision making for the next couple of years.
The World Series of Poker Main Event has begun last Friday and they are down in participants by 25%. This is in direct correlation with the internet poker sites in America being shut down because of the federal government. I know $10,000 is not the same as it used to be when they first began running this tournament 37 years ago, but ten grand is still 10 grand.
This year's payout is only going to $8.25 million compared to the $12 million+ that Jamie Gold won last year. The good news is that he is already out of the tournament after the first day. I didn't think he was that good and as is the growing trend in poker, he was way too cocky and talked too much. I really think that is the problem with poker these days; there is too much trash talking and criticizing of styles of play. I know there is not one best way of playing, but in the long run the "lucky" players will get eliminated from any tournament. Just sometimes they will last a little longer than they really should. On that note, I will say that I do miss not going to Vegas with my buddies this week, but maybe sometime in the fall I can take a long weekend and get to play some cards. Until then, I will try and play a couple times at the boats in the area and see if I can improve my play.
Thanks again for everyone's prayers, advise, and encouragement over the past couple weeks. I know I will need them to continue, and I thank all of you in advance for them.
5 comments:
Just remember, that it is a new job, new environment, new system and they actually let you schedule (when you are trained). Work may be longer than 8 hours but then most jobs today are anyhow. If you remember, I generally stayed late and only lately have I been able to put in 8 hour days and reduce my schedule.
We have all gone through this learning curve. It is temporary!!!
Perseveer and ask for God's help. Nothing is impossible with God!!
I think Blogger has an issue with their CSS or something.
Try moving your mouse JUST ABOVE the subject line, and click. That's how I got a cursor in the title field when I posted yesterday.
I am glad to hear it is getting better. Hang in there, it will get much easier as you go.
Thanks for the free poker lessons last time we were in town, I will try to put them to good use this weekend. :)
I should give mom and dad some poker chips so you can practice shuffling the chips between two stacks. That could scare some people. The theory is that the more chip tricks you know means the longer you have played cards.
When you come up next time, maybe we could try and get a poker game together up here. When it is not a sanctioned event, we only play for $10 at the most.
Let me know how you play over the weekend.
I can tell you that I am going to play well for a while, then bet it all until I lose it all so I can get a little experience,then go play guitar hero.
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