I have a history of hobbies becoming careers. When I was sixteen I got a job at the grocery store where my family had shopped since before me. So that was never really a hobby or a career. My hobby at the time was playing music. Then I became a full-time professional musician, and during those years, my hobby was playing poker. Then I became a full-time professional poker player, and during those years, my hobby has been writing.
I pointed this pattern out to my wife Kay, noting that in the last two years, I'd been doing less and less poker playing, and more and more writing, and if this keeps up, I could very well become a full-time writer, and if that happens, we should be very careful in choosing my next hobby, since it will in all likelihood become my next career after writing.
Kay said, "I think you should do music again. I wasn't there the first time."
© Tommy Angelo 2006
Various updates:
I started a blog in 2008 and it’s still going strong. I post about poker, mindfulness, and my life.
In 2011, I came out with my second book. It's called A Rubber Band Story and Other Poker Tales. This book contains my best articles and blogs from the last 12 years, with new material too. You can buy it directly from me and get it personally inscribed if you like, here. Also available in eBook. Amazon reviews are here.
Also in 2011, I started a newsletter. Join my mailing list to receive the newsletter, and I'll send you Episode 8 of my award-winning video series, The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment.
It’s now 2012 and I am painlessly immersed in writing my third book: Painless Poker.