I’m always a victim of this mistake before when I’m still allure on online casino. I keep playing every night after work. I always play until midnight which makes me consume most of my rest time for my job preparation tomorrow.
The result is I don’t have much energy at work due to insufficient sleep and I lose funds on gambling because I keep playing quick due to my limited time. The effect is very disadvantageous to me since I both lose in these situations. This is the reason why I change my gambling pattern significantly that limit me to play only during weekends when I don’t have job tomorrow.
This is an advice based on my experience, don’t ever insert gambling on your schedule if you really don’t have free time for it because it will always result to disaster in both gambling and your life.
Another approach is don't stay too long gambling. If a person is really into gambling and he wanted to play after work hours, he can manage his gambling engagement. It can be 15 min, to one-hour of gambling session, or make a fix number of wager and if the planned number is met, stop gambling.
I think the problem here relies on the amount of time spent in gambling engagement. Anyone can gamble every day as long as he has funds, without affecting his work the day after. The key is to allocate an amount of time that will not affect his rest and work. I do not counter @OP's suggestion and I think it is really a great advice. But' I believe, any gambler don't have to wait for many days to gamble due to work the next day. A proper time management can do.
This is what happens when you are addicted to it, to recover from this solution did you made any extra effort like medications and therapy sessions or you recovered just by making lifestyle changes or in worst case you continue to be same but realised this is wrong and giving warning to others?
Most of the time we get addicted to something without even knowing that and we came to realise when it's too late by that time we may be in a place there is no looking back.
I don't think @OP is addicted to gambling, he maybe hooked to playing after working hours and staying late for gambling activity but as we can read, he is able to change his gambling pattern and is able to not use his previous gambling schedule to not get affected in his work. That is not a sign of gambling addiction, IMO>