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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2567824, member: 23910"]
I've been dealing in this role for about eight years (as a side job, then full time for the past three years).  The hours can be difficult (lots of late nights and Saturdays) but it's a heap of fun, I work with good people, and it pays pretty well.

I've [I]thought[/I] about working for the casino but never actually wanted to go through with it for all sorts of reasons:

- It pays OK, but not [I]that[/I] well.  And no, by law Australian casino workers aren't allowed to take tips.  There's a (valid, IMO) concern it could compromise the integrity of the game.  We don't have a huge tipping culture here anyway.

- If you go to work for the casino, you get taught the games they need you to deal, not the ones you [b]want[/b] to deal.  I could [I]want[/I] to be a poker dealer, but if they need baccarat dealers then that's what they're gonna teach you and that's what you'll have to deal.  And I think I'd want to kill myself if I had to sit through even one night of idiots trying to make baccarat exciting by squeezing the cards...

- The hours are awful (say goodbye to your evenings and weekends), so are the conditions.  They're constantly restructuring the place to do more with less people, and screwing the ones that are left.

- The punters are, in a lot of cases, also awful.

- And last but not least, if you work in the casino obviously you can't play there.  And since there's only one casino in town... n'yeah, I'm happy right where I am thanks :)
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