Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark? 467
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An anonymous reader writes 'I'm a recent university graduate and I have been offered a software developer position in a company that supplies software to the gambling and betting industry. At first I was very excited about the opportunity, however, a few of my friends have told me that working for the gambling industry will put a permanent black mark on my career as a software developer. I don't know that many people in the industry with experience in hiring. Google has not helped, and everybody else I ask doesn't know. So I'm asking Slashdot. In your experience is this true? When you hire developers, is the fact that they worked for a gambling company a big turn off? Also, I'm currently in the UK, but would like the freedom of working in US or somewhere else later on in life. So experience from anywhere in the world is welcome.'
Not a black mark (Score:5, Funny)
More of a roll of the dice.
Personally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't that a highly regulated industry? (Score:3, Funny)
Working on an online gambling site run out of the Cayman Islands is not.
I would higher someone from the first industry to work on something as important as electronic voting systems. I wouldn't hire someone from the second to mow my lawn.
Re:Isn't that a highly regulated industry? (Score:5, Funny)
As long as none of your references are named Guido, you should be fine.
I guess Python isn't used much in the gambling industry.
great experience (Score:5, Funny)
The way banks and other financial services companies operate these days, working in gambling would be a GREAT introduction to the world of credit default swaps and mortgage-backed securities. Next stop: WALL STREET!
Black mark? Pffft. (Score:4, Funny)
I haven't worked in the gambling industry myself, but based on what I've read about its extreme computing requirements, I'd be very interested in seeing a resume from someone who had worked in it. The same goes for parts of the online porn industry for much the same reason. Both are very technically challenging environments and are often leaders in innovation. Their achievements aren't lauded as much as they might be if the subject matter wasn't so unseemly in the minds of many, but at the end of the day, data is data.
I'd recommend going for it. Even at its worst, it's nowhere near as disreputable as, let's say, being on the development team for MS Access.
Re:No. Its not a black mark. Its a bad industry (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Isn't that a highly regulated industry? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not a black mark (Score:5, Funny)
I'm simultaneously very curious and very, very scared.
Re:Not a black mark (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't that a highly regulated industry? (Score:4, Funny)
Coming soon!
A young blonde actress with big tits and a heavy lisp goes to Hollywood to make it big in film. Refusing to let corrupt producers have their way with her, her acting career is over before it began.
Faced with tough decisions, a choice between stripping or prostitution, she surprises everyone by falling into the seedy underworld of systems administration for the gambling industry... life would be simpler if she chose instead to work the streets...
Uma Thurman in ...
MAXIMUM ENTROPY!
... who said you coldn't fsck /dev/random.
Re:Not a black mark (Score:3, Funny)