[pmayjr]

The thing is-
For someone like me who gets an over-inflated head from time to time and thinks I could maybe pull something like that off for awhile, I think doing it professionally would take all of the fun out of it.

I bet on horses because it's fun, and it's leisure. I take it seriously, but it's not my main source of income. So even when I get killed, I know I'll go to work and get a paycheck on Friday. Now if horse-betting were my career, I don't know if I could handle the emotional swings of getting nose'd at the wire and losing hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. The one thing I know for sure, is emotionally thrilling as a big win is, the feeling of losing a close one feels so much worse and stronger than the feeling of winning. I hope I made some sense there. I guess what I'm getting at, I'm not sure if I could handle the emotions of it.

I think the only way I'd consider it, is if I could go into it almost debt free. Where the bills are paid for awhile. And that's almost impossible, so I'll prolly never try it.