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RLE...well said sir.
To anybody still in the mob and reading this pretty decent well-balanced thread, the game of...
"everything's changed for the worse" is clearly as old as the hills. You can imagine an old centurion lamenting such like, shortly after Caeser got voted out the forum, Roman style.
Fact is times change and whether the net effect is for better or worse is entirely a matter of personal perspective.
Just remember the old adage...look before you leap. The WSOP job was recently advertised in the press, at a starting salary of circa £34K. Where I live that is the going rate for a senior manager in a large company, or a company director of a small business (I've been both). And I absolutely guarantee that...
They will be working a lot more hours.
They will have zero job security.
They will have 28 days off a year...if they are lucky.
They will not have a pension unless they are buying it themselves.
Of course they probably won't be being shot at...so you pays your money and you take your chance.
GL whatever each and everyone of you decide to do.