The next time you get tempted to gamble, please sit down and take a few deep breaths, then pray that you'll stay home and not gamble. Think about how lousy you'd feel next time you gamble. Don't go there.

tell those casinos and the on line gambling to sick it up the big fat greedy back sides and all the other things involved with GAMBLING

been there many, many times... only thing to do is start again. "To fall is not a disgrace, to not get up again is." Keep going!

I know... I've been here before and unfortunately probably will be again as long as I have this job in a casino I wish I could afford to go to school without this job. Thanks cloris... I just hate this crap. So many bills right now and I have to figure out for school

dont give up,just keep coming back and reading...just start again,you can do well this time!!!!! good luck!!!!

Why do you work in a Casino with a Gambling addiction. Doesn't seem very smart.

I thought if you worked in a casino you couldnt gambl there

A good start would be to find another job and remove that temptation. It's like an alcoholic working in a bar, or a drug addict working in a pharmacy. Doesn't make sense.

I agree. There is no way I could beat this demon if I worked @ a casino. I honestly feel like finding a new job would be beneficial for you. Good luck :)

Well I hope you can pick yourself back up and start over again. I am encouraging you. This is a great place to get support and encouragement. I will be praying for you.
To the higher power,
I pray for my friend here, I pray that you would give strength where there is none. I pray you to be a friend and to provide where provision is needed.
I lift my friend to you and ask that you stand in the gap for my friend, and that you would be a comforter and be the rock of foundation that is needed.
Let my friend know that whenever you are needed day or night, rain or shine, you are there. My friend can call on you boldly any time is needed.
In your name,
Amen
P.S.
I hope you don't mind but I felt it might help. I pray this prayer for all my friends on Dailystrength.

Wow, some of you are highly mis informed when presenting your opinions. you CAN play where you work, in FACT some places encourage it, and will even give your check a day early if you buy into a tournament. just because i work in a casino doesnt mean i work in vegas or some big wig casino. out here, where i live, its up to the casino itself, and has nothing to do with your license unless you are security or cage personnel. If you deal poker, you are actually *required* to prop a game here and there if it is short handed, i wasnt able to transfer into poker, because i didnt play enough, reguardless of whether or not im a good dealer. I would suppose, that, you would want me to quit my job, which averages about 25 an hour plus and has flexible hours for school purposes, to go work in a deli or gas station for 40 hours a week, sacrifice time with my beautiful daughter, and possibly college? for someone to say that i am unintelligent for working in a casino with a gambling problem is possibly saying something about your own insecurities with your own intellect? a gambling problem is a PROBLEM, an ADDICTION, that we all have or we wouldnt even be here. the PROBLEM is within us ourselves, not our jobs, or anything else we aspire to do. my job is a temporary, i will not be here forever, and right now yes, the temptation is there constantly. and i dont enjoy my job, but for what it is i make good money, and i will be able to go to school AND not have to sacrifice much time away from family. now who else can say that? if i slip up, then i slip, when i post about it, its because im trying to keep myself on the right track. Here is what i can say for myself from when i first came here. i was making 50,000 a year working 25-30 hours a week. i slept on a mattress on the floor and used change for gas and payday loans for rent. guess where the rest of it went?
now i have a nice car, furniture, even decent furniture, two dogs, a horse, shoes without holes in them, a real bed, and my credit is almost rebuilt and my daughter always has food and diapers. I have been employed at the same place for over 2 years, and am starting college this quarter. actually, most gamblers, are smart people, but its an addiction, something that comes from something inside us. and we come from all walks of life. does it really make sense? NO, do we know better? of course, do i slip up here and there? yes. why? because i have an addiction. i choose to work in the middle of my addiction, because to not do so, even though i would not be feeding my addiction, would force me to sacrifice other aspects of my life, that are just as important.
so i have to learn to work around my addiction, and have the knowledge to correct my mistakes when i make them. and whoever made the comment about and alcoholic in a bar, obviously doesn't know much about alcoholics. i know plenty of people who are in AA that are in fact, bartenders themselves. if i asked you, told you, that you should pick up your life and job, and find something else, because you are stupid for doing so, would you be able to? for any reason? Just quit your job and find another especially in today's economy?
i thnk not.
strangely, im not offended by what you have said, because i understand that YOU have an addiction, and that sometimes addicts feel the need to pick others apart in order to feel better about their own demons. but i did feel the need to explain who i am, and a little of my story, and to remind people that somtimes when people come here they are at rock bottom, and they are hurting, and reguardless of where they come from, we should be here to support them, and let them know that they are not alone, and that there are people who understand and empathize that they can talk to. So that they can see, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Thank you for that prayer babyrena... im picking myself up again, re arranging finances. the school is working with me to push my financial aid application through... i think soon i will be too busy to be getting myself into trouble, and a friend at work who also has an addiction, we are helping each other out as far as not gambling goes, though sometimes we slip together, but its better for us. we are not totally out of control.

Your most welcome, I sometimes need uplifting too. Its so good to have a place like this to come to for support and encouragement. I have been here since last summer and it has helped me be GF for 90 days. My mind tells me that I need to go double my money and then I remember my friends here and my goal to pay off my 2009 aveo. I bought in December. So I have some help, and my children are encouragement also. Its a tough road being GF, its worse than and alcohol or drug addiction. Its been a fight for me, daily. Just last night I was talking about going out there with my children, because one of them goes out to the casino/resort to work out and swim. So I told her I would drive her out there, she said "you could go gamble while we go work out" I told her I am making a choice to not gamble because I don't want to have another car reposessed, she just laughed at me and doesn't believe me. I struggle with that because I need there support not there criticism. You know what I mean?

to people who arent gamblers, it seems ridiculous, and unfathomable, as to why we would spend more than 20 dollars ever.
my mom spends 20 bucks and freaks out. i remember when that used to seem like alot of money to me. They just dont understand what we do, and how we get stuck in it. its not like a drug addiction where there is a physical counterpart. but it is an addiction. you might not get the support and understanding you feel you need from your family, because they dont understand. thats why there are places like GA and AA... and this site, to find others on the same path who can relate.