should potato quit his job?

[Potato]

RayRay with the correct answer. our biggest concern is that if we have to re-enter the work force is explaining the gap in our resume.

we are getting fed up working our job (like everyone else in the world) but the hours (sans early Sunday morning/afternoon) aren't terrible. The pay is meh. Better than minimum wage but not a career. this job pays our overhead (bills / tomatos mortgage / food / etc.) in case we go tits up sports betting. thing is now we've got a small enough overhead (and enough savings) to no longer require a job. before we were renting way above our means and paying out of state tuition with no financial aid and got drained when we weren't printing money.

if we do quit, what the hell are we going to do? sports bet the rest of our lives? outs disappear. books stiff / slowpay / limit / ban those who take money from them. the first 100k is the easiest. once you start going to the same places you were betting $500 at for 3-5 years and start asking for $3000 you're just putting an additional bullet in the chamber each trip to the window. it's a for-profit industry and you're taking money from them. you are their enemy / worst nightmare.

 

[Mudcat]

our biggest concern is that if we have to re-enter the work force is explaining the gap in our resume.

Do what you want but that shouldn't be an issue. I got back into the workforce after ~8 years self employed, betting full-time. It was no more difficult to get a job than it ever was.

Just takes a little bit of imagination and perhaps a bit of flair for self-promotion.

 

[fiveteamer]

Yeah, a gap is nothing.

"My mother died"

"I traveled across Africa"

"I wrote a novel"

Etc etc etc.

 

[Matty]

I did classified govt work

I created and managed a cryptocurrency, the potatocoin (PTC)

 

[fiveteamer]

 

[Saulty]

If you are going to lie about your gap years make sure your lies match your tax returns for those years.

 

[Mudcat]

I just babbled on about working for various online entities. Did some freelance sports writing for websites. Did some songwriting, putting lyrics to other writers' music, and music to other writers' lyrics. Moderated a forum (actually true!)

You can customize to the job requirements. Excel is important, you say? I gathered and did statistical analysis for a website that provided sports statistics to various sports media. Freelance basis. Worked with Excel every day.

Wanna know why I stopped doing it? I have a wonderfully elegant explanation for that which shines all sorts of flattering lights on me.


Imagination.

 

[Tron]

This turned out to be a wonderful thread.



Potato, it seems you have already come to the (correct) conclusion that you can't bet on sports exclusively for an extended period of time.

Just have fun with it. You're good at it (compared to 97% of all other sports bettors). All the while figuring out what your real career (with health insurance and retirement benefits) will be.


xxxooo

 

[Matty]

betting-as-a-job sucks

you have to be deathly afraid of a normie career to make it work

IMO poster wal66