When I started gambling a few years ago, I won a pretty big amount of money and that opened new doors for me to pursue new business ventures. Some of these ideas panned out and some flopped miserably, but I still managed to generate some money from the the ventures that were successful.
I now have something that can generate some "passive" income and something that needs a lot of my time and attention, but overall it improved my quality of living and it encouraged me to follow my dreams.
I still gamble, but not as much as I did before... because time management has become an issue. This will not secure my retirement, but it gives me some freedom to experiment with more ideas. (I still need to work between 8 to 10 hours per day.... and weekends, but I have something to fall back on, if something bad happens)
Hope your big wins, did not just go back into the casinos.
Only significant win i have won from a scratch card something like 20 years ago, and i bought a laptop and roller skates with that. It changed my life in a way that i got heavily using those roller skates and got my endurance up in a way i probably wouldn't have without them. And at the time my desktop was on end of it's road, so i kept tabs on what's happening in the world with my laptop.I now have something that can generate some "passive" income and something that needs a lot of my time and attention, but overall it improved my quality of living and it encouraged me to follow my dreams.
I still gamble, but not as much as I did before... because time management has become an issue. This will not secure my retirement, but it gives me some freedom to experiment with more ideas. (I still need to work between 8 to 10 hours per day.... and weekends, but I have something to fall back on, if something bad happens)
Hope your big wins, did not just go back into the casinos.
Mainly i was using it to watch pirated series and practising my writing and learning, which looked very different 20 years ago with a computer.
Time management is my issue as well, but as i have come to terms with the limited time, it's easier to limit some vices and how much time i am using to them. For example i loved to play poker, and still do, especially when playing live, but i just don't have enough time for it online. Tournaments take hours and while i might get money from that, the risk that i am not getting any is just too high for me to ignore. I rather play sports and slots from time to time.