You are going to be a great dad NoJoke lol.
Seriously, that is a great answer.
Seriously, that is a great answer.
Where did i write "choose a job you hate"?
I'm not necessarily advising boring office jobs; become musician, photograph, journalist; probably all reasonable.
Maybe other countries are different; but in Germany even established, well known GM's switch to "regular" jobs sooner or later - guess why?
I'm not necessarily advising boring office jobs; become musician, photograph, journalist; probably all reasonable.
Maybe other countries are different; but in Germany even established, well known GM's switch to "regular" jobs sooner or later - guess why?
Because they were traumatized by WWII? Germany is very different from occident. You can still coach after you get older and arent that good at chess anymore.
Of course it is still nice to have a backup job.
Of course it is still nice to have a backup job.
Aaaahhh...always this WW2 crap :-)
Coaching is no working "business plan" over here. Living is rather expensive, paying for chess lessons is unpopular (totally different for e.g. music teachers!) and most pupils wont even pay 20.- Euro per hour. And far too many teachers available, since "everyone" offers lessons via skype and internet...
Coaching is no working "business plan" over here. Living is rather expensive, paying for chess lessons is unpopular (totally different for e.g. music teachers!) and most pupils wont even pay 20.- Euro per hour. And far too many teachers available, since "everyone" offers lessons via skype and internet...
Lol, good old WW2 crap. I agree with you.
Sad that chess isnt so popular there. It should be famous, they had Lasker!!
I guess at the end if you dont live in America or dont want to risk your life you need to have some backup job.
Sad that chess isnt so popular there. It should be famous, they had Lasker!!
I guess at the end if you dont live in America or dont want to risk your life you need to have some backup job.
GM's switch to regular jobs because they like that job more than chess or because they like money more than chess. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.
I'm sorry to be so aggressive about this but your advice is really really terrible. It's the sort of cynical view that leads to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world. Your FIRST consideration when choosing a career should be if you will be happy spending most of you day doing it. Money is secondary.
That little conversation you mentioned above where an adult tells a kid to "stop wasting your time with X and get a real job," I've seen it happen in real life 1000 times and it's borderline child abuse.
There's no money in art
There's no money in music
There's no money in chess
If you love chess enough there is no reason at all you can't build you life around it. Go get a teaching job at some high-school and be the chess coach if you have to. Work a "real job" while you get your chess thing going. Don't give up your passions because "there's no money in it,"
I'm sorry to be so aggressive about this but your advice is really really terrible. It's the sort of cynical view that leads to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world. Your FIRST consideration when choosing a career should be if you will be happy spending most of you day doing it. Money is secondary.
That little conversation you mentioned above where an adult tells a kid to "stop wasting your time with X and get a real job," I've seen it happen in real life 1000 times and it's borderline child abuse.
There's no money in art
There's no money in music
There's no money in chess
If you love chess enough there is no reason at all you can't build you life around it. Go get a teaching job at some high-school and be the chess coach if you have to. Work a "real job" while you get your chess thing going. Don't give up your passions because "there's no money in it,"
Oh, chess IS very popular here. Lots of (smaller) tournaments, German chess federation has 100.000 members, the "Bundesliga"is one of the strongest chess legues in the world, chess classes in many schools....
But, unfortunately, somehow this never lead to increasing amounts of money. It's simply not a thing people or companies spent much money for. Dont know why...probably Lasker is dead for a too long time :-)
But, unfortunately, somehow this never lead to increasing amounts of money. It's simply not a thing people or companies spent much money for. Dont know why...probably Lasker is dead for a too long time :-)
Someone give Nojoke a medal. That man know what it means.
@NoJoke
The GMs switch to real jobs _despite_ loving the game, giving up because it doesn't work over here. Maybe circumstances in the US are different.
At very last you write "work a real job while keep chess going". That's completely ok and reasonable. All i'm saying is living only from chess income alone is, as a matter of fact, not possible here. And as a consequence, a kid needs to guided to an additional alternative.
B.t.w. calling this "borderline child abuse" is completely absurd; caring parents simply tell their kids when they are about to make bad decisions, and that's all i'd do. No idea what pictures or weird cases you have in mind.
The GMs switch to real jobs _despite_ loving the game, giving up because it doesn't work over here. Maybe circumstances in the US are different.
At very last you write "work a real job while keep chess going". That's completely ok and reasonable. All i'm saying is living only from chess income alone is, as a matter of fact, not possible here. And as a consequence, a kid needs to guided to an additional alternative.
B.t.w. calling this "borderline child abuse" is completely absurd; caring parents simply tell their kids when they are about to make bad decisions, and that's all i'd do. No idea what pictures or weird cases you have in mind.
Bad decisions are the ones where you give up a worthwhile goal to meet expectations of the people who haven't succeeded on their own.
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