Gambling as a career is the first step to getting addicted and probably loose some more money, gambling should don't be considered as a profession, although some persons have made it one and are successful t it but it doesn't make it any good to consider as one because one out of everyone twenty gets that lucky with been successful gambling.
Gambling for entertainment make gambling almost more safe because you definitely not get so attached to it but on lucky days you get to win big, but then knowing that this luck comes only once in a while will definitely help your mind stay strong when you encounter several losses.
To be precise, if someone gambles for a profession or career, over time he will become addicted because he is used to doing it and hopes for luck in the gambling he does. And they will soon realize that there is no point in putting their hopes there, because it could be that one day they won't always succeed and will always lose. We should gamble just for fun to anticipate the many losses we might experience.
Exactly, it is not wrong if you want to make gambling into a profession but for a career maybe I disagree, as we know what a career means, which is very involved with the name of success in that career, while here you put gambling as a career, honestly I don't understand what you mean. Of course it's true, as you said, over time you will very likely become addicted, even though for example you have put strong self-control with some restrictions, because you are so used to gambling that you will not realize that over time you are very serious in gambling and eventually your mindset is disturbed, as in general you will continue to look for victory there when it is clear that this is about luck and whoever takes gambling too seriously then they will suffer a lot of losses with an amount that I think cannot be imagined.
Putting hope in gambling in my opinion is just nonsense, I understand that because you are too serious in seeing the opportunities that are there, but you have been fooled by the opportunity, there is really no point, not the victory you will get but the defeat will continue to dominate. Honestly, it's very dangerous and I hope they can change their wrong mindset soon.