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Career Advice on How to Become A Gaming Change Person or Booth Cashier

General Career Information

Do you like playing with money, but not actually getting to keep the money?  Yes, there are few things in life quite like seeing money and not getting to have any of it.  Where oh where, could someone find a job of this kind? 

There are a few jobs that really pop to mind.  One is, of course, a bank teller. It is clearly tough to beat the wonderful feeling of constantly seeing money but not getting to keep it.  If this unique and twisted form of torture sounds like something that you are interested in, then you might also want to take a look at becoming a gaming change person or booth cashier.  The gaming change person or booth cashier also handles a good deal of money, but is allowed to keep precious little of it. 

On the plus side, a gaming change person or booth cashier does have a much safer working environment than many cashiers working in other environments.  In fact, a gaming change person or booth cashier who is employed at a casino is much, much safer than his or her peers in other locations. 

 

Career Facts:

Like many people working in the gambling industry, the gaming change person or booth cashier can be expected to work weekends, holidays, evenings and odd hours. After all, gambling never takes a day off.  However, nearly half of all gaming change persons or booth cashiers work part-time. 

 

Career Opportunities and Job Outlook- Good:

As the gambling industry expands, so do the opportunities for the gaming change person or booth cashier.  As more states chase the potential revenue that casinos and gambling provides, there become more opportunities created for the gaming change person or booth cashier.  That stated, however, there is a movement in many casinos and gambling institutions to find methods of using less cash or increasing the usage of slot machines.  This trend could have an overall downward impact on the gaming change person or booth cashier.
 
Job Outlook is Good
 

A Day in The Life:

The gaming change person or booth cashier spends their day making change in casinos.  It is not as exciting as it sounds.
 

Average Salary:

The average gaming change person or booth cashier can expect to earn about $10 per hour.  (This, of course, is what he or she sees flow through the window roughly every one to two seconds.)
 

Career Training and Qualifications:

On the job training is common for the gaming change person or booth cashier.  Due to the fact that the gaming change person or booth cashier is spending most of his or her days working with the public, he or she needs to have at least respectable people skills.  While it is possible to be an angry ball of rage and resentment and still perform this job, an ability to hide this rage and resentment is not an option.  You may loathe everyone you see, but it is critical that you have the ability to hide that fact.

Additionally all gaming change persons and booth cashiers will have to pass a background check and acquire a license from the state’s gaming commission.

 

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