General Teacher quits her job to become a full-time Pokémon trainer

TheOnlySkiff69 · August 3, 2016

This woman is absolutely nuts:

Sophia Pedraza, 26, plans to cash in on the craze by pounding the streets to collect virtual characters and then sell her accounts on eBay.

The auction site has accounts for sale ranging in price from £50 ($66) to several thousand for those with rare characters and loads of combat power points. One bidding war recently stopped at £7,300 ($9727). Sophia, from High Barnet, north London, earns up to £2,000 ($2665) a month giving private lessons to kids in maths, English and music. She’s also got a law degree. But after downloading the Pokemon mobile phone app two weeks ago she’s become obsessed and thinks she can make a living out of it.

She said: "I downloaded it and immediately realized there is money to be made. If you can get to a decent level you can sell it on to people on Ebay. I heard accounts were being sold and I looked on eBay and some accounts at level 20 and above were going for £1,000 ($1332) and level 15 bids were about £100-£200 ($133-$266). If you put the time in you can get to level 15 after a day or two."

"I plan to buy more phones and play multiple games at one time. Some days I play it for 18 hours a day because you can play all the time even when you’re out with your friends in bars and clubs. My mum thinks I’m mad but she’s coming round to the idea. I’m going to do it for as long as it makes money. It’s a big craze at the moment and there’s money to be made but if it slows down I can always go back to teaching."

Original article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1495920/teacher-quits-her-job-to-become-britains-first-full-time-pokemon-go-player/