I’ve always been curious to know what people do around here. So, what’s your day job? (Or was)
For all I know, we could have CEO’s taking gambling advice from janitors lol
EDIT: For starters, I’m a software dev. I work with people across the globe, so my work hours can be pretty sporadic sometimes
I am an employee of a large bookmaker. I have access to a direct network of information exchange between the largest bookmakers in the world (from the United States, through Europe to Asia).
The information exchange network is used to mark "uncertain" games where oddsmakers have trouble listing odd (such matches are marked in orange) and, more importantly, to mark fixed games (in red). Such situations occur if the bookmaker finds out that the match has been sold or the result has otherwise been determined before the commencement of the sporting event. Information is expensive and the price of one fix depenting in the odds. You can buy also whole package of fixes. This information is top secret, but access to this knowledge allows you to earn huge money.
Every day I have a few fixes (mainly soccer, American sports - mainly NHL, NBA, MLB and tennis). For players who bet large amounts, it is possible to buy fixes in a package. If anyone wants to cooperate please contact me:
Have you ever seen the Movie Margin Call? Excellent movie one of my faves. Theres a great monologue at the end given by Stanley Tucci about how he used to build bridges… basically saying he used to really contribute to society instead of wallstreet bs he does now. It goes…
“It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and twelve feet above the Ohio River. Twelve thousand people used this thing a day. And it cut out thirty-five miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what, let's say fifty miles an hour. So that's, what, 134,165,800 hours, or 559,020 days. So that one little bridge has saved the people of those communities a combined 1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car. One thousand five hundred and thirty-one years.”
You never think about such things when you cross a bridge and I found it fascinating.
Bravo Bravo
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