As a professional with no job.
As a professional with a full-time (40 hours+/week) job.
As a professional with a part -time (1-30 hours/week) job.
For fun in a pub/club.
In an arcade.
Or anywhere coz you are addicted to fuck and lose loadsa money!
POLL: If you answer the top one please leave a post afterwards. Thanks
And yes the first one was me before anyone asks!
Give me a call sometime Rob, I havent got a mobile anymore but give me a ring on my home.
Dave
I've considered my playing to be on a 'professional' level[ie,purely for profit] for 10 + years.
I voted for 2,but that doesn't really cover it.
I stopped playing full-time 3 years ago,and since then I've found it harder to justify playing anything at all,as I can make more money at my 'straight' job.
I'm not talking simply about the 'theoretical' amount you 'could' make if every machine you played was a P1 Royle Family.
I'm taking into account all the dead machines,the time spent travelling,the barrings,the endless hassle that comes with playing AWPs.
When you balance it all out,it's not at all easy to *consistently* make more on an hourly basis than any half-way decent job or career.
The gap has been widening rapidly since 2000,and I really can't see much point in playing fruit machines in the coming year,unless the alternative is working in macDs
I do about 15 hours a week for £150 profit after drinks. Not amazing I know but crucially there's no tax on it like overtime so effectively £15 an hour. I could go full time but I doubt I could get much more than £300 per week and I would always be worrying when it ends explaining at a job interview where the last 10 years went!
How did the ex-pros find it job wise when you finished? How did you manage to get a mortgage whilst playing?
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