First, let me just say that you should go read sjay's post again. Seriously - cause it's spot on and I couldn't have written all of that better myself. +Rep.
I also would not want poker to be my full time job, for the same reasons listed already, and probably some more. The only way you'll find me palying poker "full time," would be if I scored some huge (like, retirement huge - well over 7 figures) win in a poker tourney. If that happened, yeah, I'd travel the circuit for a while and play a bunch of poker... but I'd be doing it more for fun and to challenge myself than I would be doing it to try to make a living. I would fully expect that I COULD have a breakeven or losing year if I was spending $200-$400k on buy ins. Hopefully I'd grind out a nice profit, but you just never know. It's very hard to reach the long run playing torunament poker, IMO.
As for my results to date, (non poker) people ask me all the time how much I make playing poker - and that's almost an impossible question to answer. I've won > $20k in a month (cash games only), and last month - my worst month ever by a LOT - I lost 10k. Fortunately for me, most of my months have me winning some amount of money in the $0 to $10k range, depending on how I'm running and how much I play, but there is still no way I could give you a monthly - or even YEARLY average.
I was a losing player for the first HALF of last year, but I didn't really play all that much. Then I final tabled a WSOP Event for $30k, and started killing the cash games the last 3-4 months of the year, so I ended up a having a pretty decent year. But if you had asked me in June how much I thought I'd make in 2006, I would have been way, WAY off. Tax planning is a bitch for me every year.
Hopefully I at least answered your question.
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