Gambling and Online
- to spend less than £20 a week gambling, 1 treble or double as odds dictate on the football, saturday only
I score 0/10 there so far.
Currently risking over £150 a day laying dozens of horses to small stakes, today (Wednesday) I'm looking at an exposure of £177, have £300 set aside for running my own bookies on Betfair to test some private ratings me and a few other ex brighton race course types have been working on, I've made an average of £30 a day this past week and the method I'm using to pick the runners wouldve turned a profit for the past 10 years... the worrying thing is theres a hell of alot of room to grow in terms of what liabilities im will ing to give up. Could double that £30 a day in a second.
Stil gambling though... more than ever.!
- strictly no poker, no midweek, no laying or backing of greyhounds or horses.. nada.. not a bloody thing extra.
10/10, aint done any of that, just horses, so actually 1/10
- withdraw all funds from paypal instantly, regardless of fees for amounts under £50 or covering potential refunds. track all withdrawls via online banking and use the total amount (..to two decimal places...) to invest elsewhere
10/10
Offline
- no gambling (i wont get the opportunity too anyway)
0/10
- research alternatives to gambling, ebay etc.. any alternative income streams, no amount of time or investment is too much for the right project. paper trade charting skills on the stock market (this could be a dodgy one, i can see it being very very addictive and it costing me a bundle if i ever did go for it), skower (scower? sku-wer?) the world for something to sell independently of ebay... recreate the website efforts from the past that HAVE worked..
5/10, continue to make waves on ebay but have not researched future possibilities. probably should look at something but im getting really excited about the horse thing from above, im not in it on my own, theres 4 of us who want to 'be the bookie'
- get.a.new.job. its ok to take a pay cut for this one, i just need out of here and back to edinburgh while i have the window. <- top target.
2/10. Not even bothered applying for anything, sent my details and made a short phonecall to a recruitment agent, i was offered jobs within 3 days on the strength of my cv alone, so I'm taking my chances and most of the next 4 weeks off. by that point i will NEED a job in another month.
- learn to relax in my own space and time, without thinking constantly about the future.
7/10. Started listening to music again which has been pretty rewarding, still eating well and staying healthy, lots of positive things going on socially. I do seem to spend alot of time watching or talking about my horses online and getting banned on the Betfair forum trying to put people off bets (and swearing round the swear filters).. nah things are alright and fairly relaxed, have plans for the next few weekends ahead and have put aside plenty of time for myself to do the things i like. i enjoy having my afternoons between 2 and 5 to myself, even if all im doing is sitting down the grassmarket having a coffee and reading a paper or watching a film in an empty cinema, i like my afternoon pints watching tv in the pub, when theres just me and this old lad who tells us kids stories about the days when 20,000 people used to sing his name. no idea who he is but he played for hibs in the late 60's[/quote]
Doing pretty shite on giving up gambling I have to say, rather than giving up and spending all my time worried about the future, I've actually been doing nothing but gambling and trying to make it my future..!
Its all change soon though, the pressure will be on to start making some money, I know I'll crack if I end up relying on 30 horses a day running to earn it. So the plan is changing slightly, I'm going to get a new job to cover the cost of a roof over my head and the cost of living a fairly basic life, 25 hours at about £6 an hour would do it and should be a piece of piss through an agency..
Jesus how mad does that all sound given everything I've said earlier in this thread 