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Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the software-is-software dept.

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.'

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  1. Yes - by rtfa-troll · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gambling is about screwing money out of stupid, statistically illiterate and not entirely mentally stable people. A large chunk of those people do not, whatever slashdot groupthink may sometimes seem to say, deserve it (there is no groupthink, just random bunch of nerds). You will be earning money from other people's suffering. Doing it for long or doing it often is not a sign of a person I want on my team.

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  2. Re:I rather doubt it by PRMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm atheist...I do have issues with taking advantage of the weaknesses of others for personal gain.

    Survival of the fittest?!? I guess even atheists can be hypocrites. Who knew?

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    Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
  3. Offtopic? Bad moderators... by chrb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Submitter asks (paraphrased) "I'm currently in the UK been offered a job in the gambling industry and thinking about going to work in US in the future. Any potential problems?"

    Pointing out that several British men involved in the gambling industry have been arrested, some extradited, and prosecuted in the US is Trolling and Offtopic?! How does that work? If the article submitter is serious about wanting to emigrate to the US in the future, then entering an industry where many, if not most, British and offshore companies violate US law on an ongoing basis, and which the US government has already made moves against, is probably something that should be considered.