Quote Originally Posted by BetCheckBet View Post

Having said all that I don’t envy anyone who makes a living gambling. Working a job normal job will give you the following.

32-45 paid days off vacation and holidays.
Couple grand a year in benefits
Couple grand a year in matching retirement contributions
Unemployment insurance or long term disability.
And most importantly a sense of safety and security with your work and if you are let go access to severance pay.

This doesn’t even include the fact that you may greatly be impacting yourself through references and limited networking.

Now if you can pull in good money the above doesn’t matter. But if you gotta be making easily 6 figures to make giving up the above worth it.
These points are very good I would say for most people who try to gamble professionally. It is not easy to "make it" and be comfortable without grinding your ass off.

But with that said

-Once this Super Bowl is over I will have roughly 180 days of working less than 5 hours a week basically doing whatever I want with my time.
-I have top tier benefits
- I have retirement contribs
- I could prob retire tomorrow if I really wanted to but I have no plans of stopping what I am doing any time soon