Life Sux!

I’ve hit a pothole.

Sitting for 10 hours a day in front of a screen waiting for a dealer to screw up:

“CONTROL TO GAMING SHIFT MANAGER, DEALER ON BJ02 PAID EVEN MONEY ON BLACKJACK -  BOX 2, $25 BET - KING & ACE, DEALER HAD 10 & 7 - CASINO OWES PATRON $12.50” ... then save the footage.

… and back to my unwholesome web, waiting, sitting, watching, logging stats on bets, etc. 10 hours repetition with little clumps of intense, highly scrutinised activity. If I get it wrong there are consequences, people must be held accountable. Surveillance people.

Of course, after 5 hours of nothing happening, just as I am about to go on my first 15 minute break, a gaming dispute happens, there will be a fire alarm, a physical removal of a drunken bloke with 30 mates, another gaming dispute and a $34,000 jackpot that must be verified.

They are all waiting, they all want an answer NOW and God help you if you get it wrong. When I get to go on my break, the canteen has stopped serving hot ‘food’ and there is only old salad … or mudcake.

So, after almost two years of this crap, I’ve decided that a nice little drive might be in order. 35,000km clockwise around the big island in a Land Rover, with a tent, a digital SLR camera and hopefully about $20,000 saved. I could be travelling in discomfort for up to a year. Sounds like heaven.

So I need to break out of this rut, a rut that is ruining my health.

Sitting staring at a screen for 10 hours is hard on the body.

I would love to go for a walk most days with my dog.

Whenever I get bogged down, I often do something outside of my experience, like teaching English in Thailand.

That was a reaction to being unemployed after uni. An Arts Degree was as useful as I expected it to be when I enrolled in 2003.

But a degree of ANY kind was the only criteria to do a TEFL course and get a job teachings ingliss good talkie-talk.

I have to quit this job soon. I'll keep you posted.