Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark?

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.'pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/12/1928215/Is-Working-For-the-Gambling-Industry-a-Black-Mark?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/12/1928215"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/12/1928215/Is-Working-For-the-Gambling-Industry-a-Black-Mark?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DlD-RziqUeEDDKNnYCcmaFDHr7k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DlD-RziqUeEDDKNnYCcmaFDHr7k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DlD-RziqUeEDDKNnYCcmaFDHr7k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DlD-RziqUeEDDKNnYCcmaFDHr7k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/3jS65J51iQs" height="1" width="1"/

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