Make Me A Damn Taco

2 days after graduating from college, I received a phone call saying that I got a full time offer. I nearly crapped myself when they told me how much they were paying me. I never expected to get paid that much with a liberal arts degree (Statistics and Economics). My head is still spinning. All the dreams I had 2 years ago are coming true. I plan on playing live poker at the casino on the weekends to supplement my income from my job so that I can make more money and hopefully play in the big tournaments and also start saving for the future. I cant believe I can actually get to live my dreams. I am still not sure how to feel. I have not been this happy in the longest time.

Full time job and a part-time poker player, sounds really good.

EDIT - Ok, $52 K is what I am getting paid. That's why I nearly crapped myself.

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I have been busy this past month, trying to figure out what I want to do after graduation. I have stopped playing on Hero because I have a job on campus. Things are going well this semester with a grading job and being a research assistant doing lots of stats on monkey sex (yes, this is for real, it is a data collected from Uganda on primate behaviors). Grinded the career fairs 2 weeks ago and got a couple of interviews for full time positions. I had one last week which I kinda screwed up because I was so nervous and 85% confident that I wont get the job. If I do get the job which is in Chicago, I might start drinking again to celebrate my hard work (I have been sober for the last 3 years).

I still have not heard from other companies I talked to. Most emails I get are job rejections. It is tilting because I worked really hard in the last 2 years and I know I am a good candidate for those jobs I applied to than other people who lack team player skills. My ideal place to work is somewhere where I am directly helping people such as consulting.

The thing that really bothers me the most is that if I do not get any offers, I have to go back home to Singapore right after graduation and live there until the summer of 2012 and then go to grad school to get my masters degree. Speaking of grad school, I have yet to taken the GRE and I was supposed to take it before the month ended but I got super busy with school and career fairs. I will take it on October eventually

But then again, if I do go back to Singapore, I can actually play on Pokerstars and grind it like there is no tomorrow. I have some money lying around and I can start grinding sngs and mtts again. Hopefully I win alot this time...

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Hi, I am having difficulties setting up my HUD on Hero Poker tournament. I see the HUD, but it shows up on the tournament lobby. I went online to setup the HUD but I cant get it to appear on the tables. My cash games tables are fine. It is just weird on the tournament table. Can anyone help me with any tutorials to fix this issue?

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