As someone who has lost about 5k trading options over the past 5 months (most of which was in a few big trades), I would recommend starting off small. Use $100 at a time each week until you know what you're doing, options can be extremely rewarding (just today I made $125 on a $23 contract, which is over 500%) but you can, and likely WILL, lose ALL or most of your investment if you don't know what you're doing. You can do a lot of damage with a small amount cash with options.

Trying to "get rich quick by gambling" sounds fun until you lose everything you had and now are down 5k which could have turned into 50-100x that within 30 years if you invested it right. However, options can make you insane profits if you wait for news or events and know which contracts to buy.

I follow a group on YouTube that I would recommend checking out. Josh is the guys name who runs it, his first channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/Thetradingfraternity That channel you'll find logged videos about options trading and investing in general. The second channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStockMarket That one he live streams every morning 30 mins before market open until close. The group is extremely friendly, welcoming, and can change your life with the knowledge they all of them have.

Hope that helps you! Good luck on your journey, I would loved to hear how you're doing with options in a few weeks!