Can someone take gambling as a source of income to he/she life?

[Docnaster]

There is no possible way to have gambling as a source of income no matter what.
Gambling isn't à fixed salary or something like that to be relied on for someone's spendings. Sometimes u might get lucky and win some money but most of the times you face losses a lot so I don't see how It can be a source of income.

People who rely on gambling and don't have any other source of income as a job or a business are considered lazy people in my opinion. Because if you rely on some wins from some slots to spend during the day then you don't think any further.

I personally can't do such thing, I consider gambling as an entertaining activity nothing more, sometimes u put a significant amount of money and bet it, ofcourse an amount you can afford losing but for fun nothing more. If you don't have any other income then how are you supposed to gamble anyways?

Your opinion about the subject matter is very similar to anyone who actually sees gambling as a recreational activity instead of a source of earning income. Gambling have never and would never be a good source of income and that's why I always laugh at those who wants to engage in gambling because they want to earn a living from the proceeds they get  from gambling.

When you engage in gambling because of the financial rewards that comes from it, you're most likely to become a gambling addict at the end of the day because you'll always make hasty decisions just to win at the end of each engagement and because your decisions are mostly affected by your quest to win, the chances of making good gambling decisions becomes slimmer thereby leading to continual loss which will leave you addicted to gambling. For anyone that's new to the forum or does want to engage in gambling, please do not do it because of you want to make it your source of income

[indah rezqi]

It is undoubtedly true that most gamblers choose gambling as a source of income. The opposite is true for particularly wealthy gamblers who have no problem with money, who may consider gambling primarily as a pastime. But most of the poor and middle class gamblers choose gambling as one of the main sources of income. One of the main targets of all gamblers around me is to profit from gambling and make a living from that profit. This irrational attitude and activity of theirs makes them lead a very miserable life later on. In most of the gambling families this gambling alone causes chaos and family misery.
 

It is a fact that is often found in almost all environments, that the majority of gamblers come from the lower middle class or more precisely the poor. It is very reasonable why they make gambling their main source of income, they have more free time and no permanent job, so they have more opportunities to invest money and time in gambling. Besides that, they also have the greatest potential to become depressed when they lose money, because their lives depend on gambling. They know that the chances of winning are very low, but still do it regularly because of poverty and addiction.

For those who gamble for fun or as a hobby, gambling is not a place to find a source of income, but rather a place to divert attention. Most of them gamble to relieve boredom due to work demands, by gambling they can get instant pleasure. Meanwhile, those who use gambling as a source of income will be completely under pressure, and have the potential to lose everything they have, including their family, if they do not immediately stop gambling.

[STT]

Almost no one can set out to take gambling as their source of income, you would have to be a poker star or similar type of high level skill and even then sometimes you will be losing money the whole week maybe the whole month so its a rough trip.

The one exception I heard of is people who gamble casino bonuses or promotional offers given to new customers.  That isnt strictly a legit thing as you can only be a new player once however the person I heard of just keeps opening via new details given to him by friends and contacts and he does all his gambling with that positive bias.   Like I say its not exactly a proper job but some people try to gamble constantly with nice bonuses given to them and that alters their bias back to profitability.  Most of us are just playing games and getting lucky sometimes only.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I had a friend that approached me last year and requested that I teach her gambling because she wants to start earning money from gambling because she believes that gambling is a side hustle that can make her get more income from there, but I discouraged her from gambling because she was already seeing it as a source of income, and if I encourage her to continue or teach her how to do so, she might get addicted and lose all her money in the process. What I am saying in essence is that gambling is not a proper means to source income; while doing that, you can get addicted and lose all your money, including your salary. 

She would not necessarily become addicted, but the likelihood of simply losing some of her money would not be small.

Perhaps gambling can be considered a very unstable and fickle source of money. Something like a salary bonus, which may or may not happen. Also, this bonus may turn out to be negative and will reduce part of your salary. If you look soberly at gambling as a source of income.

Do not take the winnings of other gamblers as motivation for yourself, as if you can win like them, gambling can favor people at different times, and you cannot be lucky as someone else when you think you want to win might be when you are losing. 

Should the losses of other (close) people in gambling be perceived as a demotivator for gambling?

Luck is a very abstract and ephemeral thing, which is very unstable and ends up in the hands of a few. Relying only on it is very risky, especially if you observe the luck of others.

She might not get addicted, which is true, but she might end up chasing losses and continue losing her money till she spends all her savings. Since she doesn't have the intention to go into gambling for fun, I advised her against it. 

I would not measure gambling winnings as a salary bonus that an employee may not know all the time that the company is going to add to their salary. There are some companies you will work with, and most of the time you will get inside information when a bonus is to be added to your salary. But when you are playing casino games, count certainty out because you will never be certain of what time you are going to lose or when you are going to lose. In sports betting, you can sometimes be sure that the game will be successful unless the team screws up. 

Losses of other gamblers could be perceived as a demotivation, depending on the perception of the gambler. It could be a novice that just wants to venture into gambling (for the same reason of making money) for the first time, but seeing how often some gamblers lose their money can be a demotivating factor. 

[piebeyb]

For those who gamble for fun or as a hobby, gambling is not a place to find a source of income, but rather a place to divert attention. Most of them gamble to relieve boredom due to work demands, by gambling they can get instant pleasure. Meanwhile, those who use gambling as a source of income will be completely under pressure, and have the potential to lose everything they have, including their family, if they do not immediately stop gambling.

Yes, it all comes back to each person's mindset because everyone has different goals when gambling, but in fact what we see is that most gamblers today always consider it as a source of income, not something that is fun like other people, I am one of them. who consider gambling as entertainment on the weekends when I feel like my weekdays are full of stress from work, but maybe other people have a different mindset with gambling as their source of income every day and they lose a lot of money.

But people who gamble responsibly and have a mindset of just having fun, they never experience regret when they lose, let alone the pressure to recover from their losses and chase their losses, everything is impossible for them to feel and I feel that myself, there are differences depending on the mindset and method. their views on gambling. There is nothing wrong with gambling, it's just that most of us as gamblers expect too much when gambling.

[Dewi Aries]

No, however it makes gambling a place to produce is an idea that can never be justified, because the reason is clear that in gambling there is absolutely no way that can have 100% accuracy to produce a win, meaning this is why gambling is called an activity that does not have any certainty and guarantee. Meanwhile, on the other hand, as we know, need can never be tolerated, while gambling will not always be able to provide victory because there is no certainty or guarantee whatsoever.

So in my opinion, of course it is an unreasonable idea to do, there is no other advice other than it is better to look for a job that can really provide a definite income as is done by many people in general who get a salary at the end of every month. Never make the impossible possible, plus it is very clear that gambling has a level of risk that can sometimes be very significant.

[tusandii]

I said let me express my feelings towards this to forum gambling discussion, if their are people who are living in this kind of lifestyle. And what will be your opinion towards the people living in this kind of lifestyle everyday of their life's?

Basically, gambling is just an activity to fill free time with the remaining money we have without having to use large amounts of money as long as it can entertain you and gambling can be said to be like a luxury game that requires you to spend a little money to access it.
Under any circumstances, gambling should only be a game that can produce more pleasure than the profit of getting money because of course the more often or the longer you bet on luck-based gambling games, the greater the losses we will incur.
Gambling should not be considered as a place to make any profits, even though sometimes you get profits from gambling for a few days, but believe me, it's just luck and after luck leaves your life, you will definitely lose more often or maybe only get small wins.

There are many negative impacts if gambling is considered as a source of income, so it is always recommended to think of gambling as a game that you can play when you have money left over and have free time to gamble, or if someone is determined to consider gambling as a source of profit, I'm sure anyone will be more addicted because he will continue to chase the losses he has obtained.

[DaNNy001]

I was gambling today online since their is strike no work, so decided to take all my day to place a bet and this thought comes to my mind. That is it how the jobless men do gamble all day with the little money they've, because this is insane to me but to those people who gamble as the means of their income it's terrible.

People take gambling as a source of income, but it doesn’t make any sense to me, so if there is a subsequent loss, then how will the person be able to survive? People like this are the ones that do end up being addicted to gambling easily, because if they lose continuously and have no money left with them, they will end up doing everything possible to get money just to keep on gambling because they need to gamble for survival. Some of them will sell things they have, hoping to buy them back after winning, but most of them will end up losing the money.
 
If you are not married yet, I don’t have any problem with anyone depending on gambling for survival, but if you are married with children, then it’s totally bad. You shouldn’t punish your family members with your stupidity. Because if you have a family, you won’t be the only one to be affected, your family members will also be affected.

It is certain that anyone who take gambling as a source of income is addicted, there is no two ways about it because they'll keep playing to make sure they provide food on their table and it's a continuous process else they'll beg on the streets because most persons who make gambling their source of income are using from poor background and they think gambling might help lift them from poverty. It's advisable to have a source of income before gambling so that you won't get addicted by taking gambling too serious. Another mistake most gamblers make is thinking they can actually double their salary after a month of hustle and hard work, they are likely to loose everything and go home with nothing.

[aylabadia05]

I said let me express my feelings towards this to forum gambling discussion, if their are people who are living in this kind of lifestyle. And what will be your opinion towards the people living in this kind of lifestyle everyday of their life's?

If you play all day because you have nothing to do in the hope of being able to expect money from winnings, of course that's a stupid idea.
No matter what someone's situation is, in gambling there is no such thing as mercy. Gambling does not look at who the players are playing and what the situation is, whether it is difficult or happy.

For me, the concept of gambling without enough money and expecting riches after gambling, that only exists in movies. The rest, nothing really lives up to expectations.
Gamble only for fun, not because of compulsion. No money, then don't gamble.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Wrong assumptions about gambling will put your friend at risk of losing everything he has accumulated so far, he will of course risk everything because he thinks gambling can be used as a side job and can make money. Never teach anyone about gambling if the goal is only to make money because gambling never promised a win.

Most people who are involved in gambling always end up suffering due to misinterpretation of gambling, the effects of losing will burn their emotions to try to withdraw all the money that has been spent, but in reality they continue to lose and can cause addiction. I will never teach anyone if the goal is to make money, this type of gambler is capable of doing anything to get money to return to the gambling place because their emotional level is difficult to control.

Yeah, that was exactly the advice I gave to her. Since already sees gambling as a source of income, if she goes into it, she might just be glued to it, hoping to make a huge profit one day as she keeps losing money every day until she probably lose all her savings before realizing herself. It is better to go into gambling when you have a proper knowledge about gambling. Gambling is not to be perceived in just one direction. By saying one direction, I means it should not only be seen in the aspect of making profit from it, a gambler or anyone that is thinking of becoming a gambler should also knows that they can in fact lose all their money there or luckily win a fortune which doesn't just happen easily.

[Justbillywitt]

I was gambling today online since their is strike no work, so decided to take all my day to place a bet and this thought comes to my mind. That is it how the jobless men do gamble all day with the little money they've, because this is insane to me but to those people who gamble as the means of their income it's terrible. I rememberd a friend of mine back in the days in school all he does was to gamble all day not going to class, and the gambling favors him alot any time he comes to the hostels he do comes back with a big bag of foods. But that was back then his parents was sending him money, but right now with the economy situation in some countries someone will haven a little money meanwhile he/she have gone alot stress to get the money and he/she will tries to increase the money by gambling. Everyday he/she continues like this hmmm it's bad.

I said let me express my feelings towards this to forum gambling discussion, if their are people who are living in this kind of lifestyle. And what will be your opinion towards the people living in this kind of lifestyle everyday of their life's?

Funny enough there are lots of people going through this kind of life in my neighborhood. I use to meet him in the casino every weekend, since I'm just a weekend gambler. He wakes up every morning dresses like someone who is going to work, if you don't know you won't believe that this individual doesn't have a job. He goes to gambling hall every morning and comes back same way civil servants goes to work. According to him whatever that's giving you money should be taken seriously. Several people have advised him about his gambling attitude but he seems to be okay with it. One thing I like about him is that you will never see him misbehave. Irrespective of how much you are making from gambling it's not advisable to live your life just on gambling, that's not life that's just an addiction.
Op there are many people living on gambling as there source of income.

[Sakanwa]

Gambling can be a source of information,yes because so many people,who dont have work are depending on gambling to pay them for them to earn a living.It is very  common in some parts of the country,and in some countries,it is legalised and being played by most persons,therefore in places where there is no work,there is every tendency that they will engage much in gambling and make it a source of living.
For those who just gamble because they like it,they once in a while try it whether they will be lucky or not.

[GigaBit]

I was gambling today online since their is strike no work, so decided to take all my day to place a bet and this thought comes to my mind. That is it how the jobless men do gamble all day with the little money they've, because this is insane to me but to those people who gamble as the means of their income it's terrible.

People take gambling as a source of income, but it doesn’t make any sense to me, so if there is a subsequent loss, then how will the person be able to survive? People like this are the ones that do end up being addicted to gambling easily, because if they lose continuously and have no money left with them, they will end up doing everything possible to get money just to keep on gambling because they need to gamble for survival. Some of them will sell things they have, hoping to buy them back after winning, but most of them will end up losing the money.
 
If you are not married yet, I don’t have any problem with anyone depending on gambling for survival, but if you are married with children, then it’s totally bad. You shouldn’t punish your family members with your stupidity. Because if you have a family, you won’t be the only one to be affected, your family members will also be affected.

It is certain that anyone who take gambling as a source of income is addicted, there is no two ways about it because they'll keep playing to make sure they provide food on their table and it's a continuous process else they'll beg on the streets because most persons who make gambling their source of income are using from poor background and they think gambling might help lift them from poverty. It's advisable to have a source of income before gambling so that you won't get addicted by taking gambling too serious. Another mistake most gamblers make is thinking they can actually double their salary after a month of hustle and hard work, they are likely to loose everything and go home with nothing.

I can agree with you but what would you call those who take up gambling as a profession are addicted gamblers? Although the number of people who have taken up gambling as a profession is not very high. But they are not addicted gamblers. We cannot call them addicted gamblers even if they spend a long time gambling in order to get their winnings, always researching gambling. There are some signs of addicted gamblers that anyone can guess. My point in saying this is that someone who takes up gambling as a source of income does not become an addicted gambler. Those who do not take up gambling as a profession but consider it a source of income are addicts.

[Viscore]

Gambling can be a source of information,yes because so many people,who dont have work are depending on gambling to pay them for them to earn a living.It is very  common in some parts of the country,and in some countries,it is legalised and being played by most persons,therefore in places where there is no work,there is every tendency that they will engage much in gambling and make it a source of living.
For those who just gamble because they like it,they once in a while try it whether they will be lucky or not.

Not the right explanation. In my opinion, it's easier to work hard to get a consistent salary on a regular basis than to rely on gambling to make a living. People say that they can make easy money in gambling or earn a living from it, but that's easier said than done. In reality, it's almost impossible to earn a living from gambling unless you are the one operating a gambling shop or a casino where you get the house edge.

[AliMan]

Yes someone can take gambling as a source of income for their life but it is taken by small number of gamblers only and for specific gambling only.
Mostly for pvp poker and sports betting, and they must be professional on that games so they can make money for a living.
For other games (luck based games) there will be no one who can make a living from these games because the luck is the main factor to win.
There are some lucky people whose life changed a lot from gambling (such as lottery winner) but I do not consider it as taking gambling as source of income.

There's a lot of story that gambling changed a lot of lives due to gambling, unfortunately they ended up broke after that quick rick situation came. They've become greedy on spending and didn't value money for good, those stories I heard came to a point that it ended up their lives as criminals kept spying on them. Making this as a source of income was just a case to case basis, we can rely on this because lucky wins has only minimal percentage to become successful.

[letteredhub]

I said let me express my feelings towards this to forum gambling discussion, if their are people who are living in this kind of lifestyle. And what will be your opinion towards the people living in this kind of lifestyle everyday of their life's?

If you play all day because you have nothing to do in the hope of being able to expect money from winnings, of course that's a stupid idea.
No matter what someone's situation is, in gambling there is no such thing as mercy. Gambling does not look at who the players are playing and what the situation is, whether it is difficult or happy.
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Daily gambling because a person doesn't have anything meaningful or a job is not an excuse, that's just been lazy and stupid at same time. Why not take such time in search of a job, could be physical search or online rather than increasing your suffering by depending on gambling, an activity that doesn't bring the favour to the gamblers'side but to the casino, the hedge all theirs.  Additionally, it will very difficult to make gambling a means of making money by gambling daily and not get into gambling addiction.  It's very much not possible.

[Agbamoni]

The question you should ask yourself is would you take gambling as your source of income? I think you wouldn't because you wont want to keep your hopes on luck. This is because everything that has to do with gambling depends on luck which means there are sometimes our bet might go right and we would win while sometime it all go wrong and we lose. This doesnt happen when we have a skill or work, if we have a job to fo and we are paid we do the job take our money and go there is no probability of we not having the money from the job unless we decide to do the work for credit to receive payment later.

A source of income should be consistent, and should come mostly at the end of the month so that we can take care of our bills and continue with life as time goes on.

[nara1892]

I said let me express my feelings towards this to forum gambling discussion, if their are people who are living in this kind of lifestyle. And what will be your opinion towards the people living in this kind of lifestyle everyday of their life's?

If you play all day because you have nothing to do in the hope of being able to expect money from winnings, of course that's a stupid idea.
No matter what someone's situation is, in gambling there is no such thing as mercy. Gambling does not look at who the players are playing and what the situation is, whether it is difficult or happy.
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Daily gambling because a person doesn't have anything meaningful or a job is not an excuse, that's just been lazy and stupid at same time. Why not take such time in search of a job, could be physical search or online rather than increasing your suffering by depending on gambling, an activity that doesn't bring the favour to the gamblers'side but to the casino, the hedge all theirs.  Additionally, it will very difficult to make gambling a means of making money by gambling daily and not get into gambling addiction.  It's very much not possible.

Exactly, I agree with your idea above that not having anything to do on a daily basis is not a reason to dedicate ourselves to gambling activities for the sake of trying our luck or whatever, because after all gambling can consume quite a lot of time and money while you can use that time to look for or create various opportunities to make money for sure, as you said and you suggested above by using that time to look for jobs from various sources.

This means that the reason for gambling because they don't have activities to do such as work is a ridiculous and unreasonable reason, there is nothing other than laziness that dominates them, or I can also call them losers who want money but don't want to try so they make gambling which is full of uncertainty as a place to earn income, and obviously until whenever their hopes can never be realized, because gambling is not a place to earn, but an activity that is only useful and recommended for entertainment when we occasionally have free time that is quite boring without disturbing other more important activities.

[aylabadia05]

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Daily gambling because a person doesn't have anything meaningful or a job is not an excuse, that's just been lazy and stupid at same time. Why not take such time in search of a job, could be physical search or online rather than increasing your suffering by depending on gambling, an activity that doesn't bring the favour to the gamblers'side but to the casino, the hedge all theirs.  Additionally, it will very difficult to make gambling a means of making money by gambling daily and not get into gambling addiction.  It's very much not possible.

That's why I said in gambling there is no such thing as mercy. Laziness is a reflection of the character of people who spend all day gambling because the vastness of the world cannot make them think about looking for a job. Sometimes there is a feeling of difficulty in getting a job because there are not many jobs in the midst of the economic situation, it is not entirely justified because there are still other businesses that can bring in money.

Making gambling a means of earning income, 99.99% I disagree. It is clear that gambling is only to measure luck and for fun.

[YOSHIE]

Can someone take gambling as a source of income to he/she life?

You definitely know that if you don't have capital in your gambling account, of course you can't play, that's the main point, gambling is money pitted against money = making money and = spending money, you definitely understand that.

My understanding is, if someone said gambling was their source of life in economic terms, I would say that was nonsense, in a game there are definitely winners and losers, that's for sure and that's the nature of gambling, For this reason, gambling is a means of multiplying money in games, not as a means of living or a means of income to meet life's needs.