1999 was in all probability the worst yr of my skilled life. Unsatisfying workplace jobs adopted by lengthy durations of unemployment and claiming advantages. I might additionally missed out on a chance to coach as a Microsoft licensed programmer as a result of I used to be unable to discover a placement. The dream of creating my method into the world of employment had was an absolute nightmare, at instances I felt like a complete failure.
In the direction of the top of 1999 a chance arose for me to work in a on line casino. I’d all the time beloved card video games after seeing the glitz and glamour of casinos in James Bond motion pictures. Dissatisfied with life in Northern Eire, on the age of simply 20, I packed a few suitcases and ended up going to the Isle of Man to coach as a croupier (on line casino vendor) in January 2000. 18 months later I used to be engaged on my first cruise ship, and 18 months after that I used to be boarding the QE2 (essentially the most well-known ship of all of them) to do a world cruise.
For a younger man from a housing property in Antrim, Northern Eire this was past even my wildest desires. On a ferry from Belfast to Liverpool in 1997, I’d as soon as seen a pontoon desk and croupier and dreamt what it might be to work as a on line casino vendor on the excessive seas.
Every part aboard the QE2 was as you’ll count on, beginning with Captain Ron Warwick, who regarded precisely what the captain of the QE2 ought to seem like (Google the identify when you do not imagine me). Passenger dealing with crew have been immaculate of their look. I may in all probability have shaved with the crease on my pressed tuxedo shirts, and on a variety of occassions after I had been sunburnt in port, I may really feel the creases reducing into my tender pores and skin as I dealt the playing cards that night within the on line casino.
The nice factor for croupiers on cruise ships is that they solely work when the ship is in worldwide waters, in port, the on line casino should shut, and on line casino workers are free to do just about no matter they need. On line casino workers have a cabin steward who cleans their cabin and takes away their soiled laundry and brings it again contemporary every day. We did a 103 day world cruise which included stops in locations like Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape City, Hawaii, Mauritius, Nagasaki, Tahiti and Singapore to call just a few. I managed to do some wonderful excursions like diving within the nice barrier reef, quad biking within the Namibian desert, and eating in all kinds of high quality eating places, making an attempt delicacies like Springbok, Kangaroo, Crocodile and Kobe beef. We made stops in 5 continents, crossed the equator and even skilled residing a Tuesday in consequetive days once we crossed the world timeline. Think about that, you go to mattress on Tuesday evening, get up the next morning and its Tuesday once more, however this was removed from groundhog day.
The position within the on line casino was not about taking passengers’ cash like in a land-based on line casino, it was about offering them with enjoyable and leisure. The passengers have been pleasant and nice, lots of them being extraordinarily profitable folks (I perceive the bottom cabin value for a world cruise on the QE2 was about $50,000 in 2003). Quite a lot of the passengers had by no means performed in a on line casino and have been fascinated to be taught and expertise the one onboard. Simply attending to know a few of these folks was an expertise in itself, and a big a part of the position within the on line casino was merely to entertain them while they have been within the on line casino.
There have been additionally celeb passengers. We’d end work and go to the crew/members bar the place we might have visitor entertainers just like the late Des O’Connor and the magician, the late Paul Daniels right down to have a drink. God bless them each.
Was my job the very best job on the earth? Possibly not for everybody, but it surely was past even my wildest desires and the 6 month expertise, in addition to the wonderful folks I met can be one thing I treasure without end. I used to be very fortunate to have lived this expertise and can all the time be extremely grateful for it.
A few years have handed since then and I’ve all the time missed the thrill of casinos which is how Enjoyable 21 On line casino Rent was created in 2021. My celebrities now are anybody who hires the No Cash Enjoyable On line casino that I present for events and celebrations, and I intention to present the identical expertise that you’d count on onboard the QE2.
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