Gambling As a Full Time Career

Realistically I feel like some people already are but I'm definitely sure they own a lot of businesses and investments that help support their gambling and not just purely rely on it. To them to also be able to start doing that, they probably were either working under a corporation that pays lots of figures a month before turning full on gambler mode or they're just born with money. Gambling is pretty much a double-edged sword to treat as your entire career. This is based on what I think though but maybe someone out there is really just lucky and has never really experienced great loss so they treat this as their full-time thing. 

You need to be extra lucky or strategic to even consider it a full time job

I think there are people who may have gambling as a full time career but as others have mentioned here you may need to have other side hustles or at least their own business. Gambling involves a lot of luck and it may be difficult to rely on it for a consistent income

My cousin is a professional gambler in the UK. All of his income comes from winning bets that he places. He doesn't do "hard gambling" @tituskrit but makes a few large bets every week usually on sports such as horse racing or football. He likes to go to land-based casinos because I used to go with him to some of these in London. But he would gamble some money he could afford to lose there and it wasn't part of his professional gambling.

Being a professional gambler is not for the feint hearted. Some weeks his bets lose and he has to rely on savings to live. Other weeks he does very well and he will be out and about most days. He has been doing this for several years and has been successful overall. I also know some professional poker players that don't do anything else accept enter and win poker tournaments.

That is difficult though and like others said, people need to have other side hustles or something to finance their gambling as it's a play of luck often

I dont think gambling would a be a good full time career if you're not earning from anything else on the side. As the others have stated, gambling is based on luck and you're needs as well as expenses aren't going to adjust if luck isn't on your side. If anyone is planning on gambling as a full time career they should have another form of business or mode of earning as well 

@graham Your cousin seems to live the life. But the losses are probably just a bad day at the office

@ray the double-edged part is just like most workplaces, esp a toxic one. The good thing there is the fun. You also need to be one lucky individual

@facebook-awsaw Luck is the keyword

@heyitsky Hahaha there are people willing to gamble on their livelihood and pick gambling as a career

It’s possible, but risky as hell!

I know many people who are now millionaires through gambling. I've seen posts on Reddit of people turning $15 into thousands and there's definitely many people make a living off it, but the house always has an edge, so you’ve gotta be super disciplined and lucky.

Maybe as a quick in and quit while you're ahead type deal. You can make millions playing poker.

@tituskrit They are a bad day at the office for him now but when he first started out as a professional gambler they really hit him hard. He had the belief that professional gamblers never lose which of course is not true. Once he changed his mindset on this things improved for him.

@tituskrit I am not so sure about that. I personally take gambling activity as mostly source of entertainment.