Hello Sean
Forgive me for saying but I think you’re approaching this all wrong. It is quite evident that you have quite a serious gambling problem but you don’t say this. Do you believe you have a gambling problem?
If so the last thing you should really be looking for is a way to make extra money. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, as a compulsive gambler in denial there’s no two ways about it you will end up in even more mess the more money you get.
The vast majority of people on this forum are honest hard working folk who, for whatever reason, have ended up with a gambling addiction, no one asked for it.
In order to start living a life without gambling requires some drastic changes in our lives, including how we think about things, and how we relate to others.
You are living a lie, covering this up from your partner. The impression I get reading this thread is that not only are you lying to her, you’re lying to yourself. Big style.
I’d be interested to hear if you consider yourself to be a problem gambler. Realising and admitting you have a problem is the first step down a different path.
There is a link somewhere on this site to a list of twenty questions which may help you realise that you are a CG (compulsive gambler).
You’re a young man with a healthy salary and hard work will get you out of your financial hole. But only if you stop gambling. I suggest your seriously ask yourself the question. If you firmly believe that you do have a problem then this a great place to help you turn yourself around.
As to “get rich quick schemes” I don’t think you’ll get much help with that here, although most of us are experts in “get pathetically skint in the bat of an eyelid schemes”.
Sean you have a great opportunity to enhance life lots of us here are getting on and misspent our teens, twentys, thirtys, fortys and even longer chasing our losses and looking for a quick fix to the financial shite we put ourselves in. Don’t make the mistake many of us have. Admit you have a problem and seek out help for it.
Life as a compulsive gambler is dire, I’ll be paying off my gambling debts until I die. A bitter pill to swallow, and a heavy cross to bear, but it is what it is.
I think by posting on here that you maybe realise you do have a problem so well done on coming across and looking. I understand how you see that your financial predicament may be overbearing and that you think it requires a quick fix, It aint going to happen mate.
Be honest with yourself first and foremost, and you will maybe get the help you require.
Geordie.