As I was having my morning coffee I read a piece on Chris Ferguson's Going Pro blog that got me thinking.
"But when you become a pro, you have to play poker five or six days a week. In time, playing cards will start to feel a lot like a job. I happen to love every occasion I get to play, but for many people, it can become a grind."
That part brought back some very emotional memories for me that I thought I'd share.
Several years ago I spent every weekend as a semi-professional skydiver. I call it semi-pro because I had a regular job Monday-Friday then Saturday, Sunday and holidays I taught skydiving, shot skydiving video, packed parachutes and so on.
I made enough money to pay for my "fun" jumps plus some. Had I been doing it full time I'd have been making more than my job. Granted there are no benefits and as you can imagine health insurance can be important...
I was presented several times with the opportunity to do it full time and have plenty of friends that did it and some that still are.
I was never willing to take that step. Skydiving was my entertainment, my release from the every day grind. It was my life. If I wasn't skydiving I was talking about it, reading about it, editing video or something. It was impossible to enter into a conversation with me that skydiving didn't somehow didn't come up.
I wasn't willing to make skydiving my daily grind. I felt like it would take away from the passion that I had for it because then what do you do for fun? Once the release becomes the grind, what do you do?
I was in an accident in 2001 and haven't jumped since. Many of you have probably seen my video. It's been on a few shows and I still catch re-runs. You'll know it's me because I had the camera on my helmet and you can see what I saw.
Anyway, poker is now my entertainment and it would be tough to convince me to make it my grind. Not that I can afford to...
Going Pro? 
