Casinos are not familiar places to me. And casino work is even less familiar. I don’t think I have the brain power necessary to keep track of as many things as a dealer must.

Check out this casino dealer’s new year resolutions. Not a single one of his overlapped mine.

1. I promise not to exterminate any of my obnoxious players anymore, unless they deserve it.
2. I promise not to correct my own mistakes.
3. I promise not to stare at cleavage.

Resolutions 4-12 at The Casino Dealer Life.

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Sound advice there - especially if your job involves being fired out of a cannon twice a day. Or, if your job also involves comedy western bar brawls.

Anyway, just ask human cannonball, Diego Zeman. He grew up around circus performers and started training when he eight. “I was born into the circus and started with the trapeze and high wire,” he says. Moving on to the job of human cannonball was therefore an obvious next step.

But more tellingly, in this interview with the BBC, Diego said “I always feel nervous”.

Softie.

(Found at the BBC, image c/o BBC)

“And I love my job so much that I want to tell everyone just what I do!” Ummm….actually, in this case, that might not be such a good idea.

(Found at StrangeCosmos.com)

Like most normal people, you’ve probably considered spending the usual $7,000 on books that you need to read to become a worm farme… sorry, ‘vermiculturist’.

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