# How do you get a casino related job? How much do they pay? - Interesting FYI article!

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**Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-a-casino-related-job-how-much-do-they-pay-interesting-fyi-article/267423/1 "2004-10-04T05:06:42Z")

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[How do you get a casino related job?](http://lasvegas.about.com/cs/casinohotelsjobs/a/Casinojobs_2.htm)

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> Keep in mind, that you are trying to get a job in the building. If you don’t see a casino jobs in the listings, but you do see a hotel job that you think you can handle, take the hotel job. Most larger, Strip casinos have their own training facility for employees. Many a hotel maid has been trained as a blackjack dealer internally, but you might want to try a dealers or slot mechanics school to go in better prepared. So, the major trick is to get a job in the building, no matter what the job. Now, your in position to move around and work your way up. There are many true tales of people getting employed as garbage disposal personnel or public porter or convention porter or bus boy or security officer who became presidents and vice-presidents in Las Vegas. It still happens.