A bit about me
First some of the basic info: I’m 23 years old and I’ve lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia my whole life. The area I live in is called the Main Line. Basically, it’s a set of suburbs that are north and west of the city and they gradually become part of Central PA as you go west. I went to college from 2000 to 2004 in a city called Lancaster, PA at Franklin & Marshall College. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 with a dual major in Business (Accounting/Finance) and Government, which was basically a Political Science major.
During my senior year, I took a job with a professional services firm called Deloitte and I started work in September of 2004. Deloitte has a number of services lines: Audit/Enterprise Risk Services, Consulting, Tax, Financial Advisory and maybe some smaller ones I’m forgetting. I ended up working in a few different services lines, but I didn’t really enjoy the work. I don’t have any complaints about the firm I was working for as I was paid well and treated well, but I just couldn’t be enthusiastic about the lines of service they provide.
WARNING: Boring paragraph alert. Skip to the next one if easily bored.
For instance, there’s something called Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), which was a bill passed by Congress after the Enron debacle. The basic idea behind SOX is to increase the level of reporting from public companies. Naturally, the Big 4 professional services firms like Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG have been called upon to complete a lot of this work for companies. The upside is that business was booming for Deloitte. The downside was that the bill was so new that people were still figuring out exactly how to comply with it and things were generally chaotic at most clients that I was assigned to. In addition, I personally felt that many of the requirements imposed by SOX were pretty ridiculous and overzealous. As is typical in the policy-making process, Congress somewhat over-reacted to what happened with Enron and they imposed a number of reporting requirements that wouldn’t really help to prevent future accounting scandals. While I agree something needed to be done to prevent accounting fraud, I don’t necessarily think what I was doing on a daily basis was really helping anything. Either way, I didn’t like what I was doing, so I left the firm after a year to work full-time on poker-related projects.
In addition, I am applying to law school for entry in the Fall of 2006. I decided to apply for law school back in 2004 (before any of the poker website stuff). At this point, I still plan on going to law school without putting it off any more, but there is the possibility that thepokerdb may get big enough to the point where I won’t be able to maintain it and go to school without one activity suffering. Therefore, I’d either have to hire someone to run it or I’d need to delay grad school. I’m not sure where I’m going yet as I won’t find out for a few months where I’m accepted, but hopefully I’ll manage to get into a good school. For the time being, I’m going to focus my energy on enjoying the year off from regulated life.
I’ll be in Atlantis tomorrow, so my next entry should be from there. If you’re going, have a safe trip and I’ll see you in a few days.
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