Interesting times

Well, it certainly doesn't get boring working for an online gambling company. One week your chairman is arrested, next week court finds that his arrest was pretty much illegal, and this week new law was passed that is aimed to kill online gambling (except horse races - nothing wrong with that, of course). No one really knows how this latest turn of events will affect us, but speculation of course runs rampant. We had an emergency staff meeting where we were told that no one knows what's going to happen, but we should all stay calm... At the same time we have an advisory from the firm not to travel to US - we know feds have some kind of blacklist of people who work in the industry that they will arrest should they wander south of the border, but since the list is secret we have no idea who's on it (unlikely it's me, but I see why they gave the advisory).

People are worried, of course. Lot of people own shares - which plummeted this morning - and lot of people are worried about the insecurity. Some people are polishing up their resumes. Some people will undoubtedly leave. I'm just sitting and smiling... if the very unlikely worst case scenario happens and the company goes under, I will take that as a sign. I've been preparing for a second career for over a year now, and if I got a push like redundancy, I would jump at the chance of becoming a full time yoga teacher.

Not that I think it's likely anytime soon. Next nine months are a waiting period anyway when US government ponders on how on earth are they going to enforce this silly law. I'm gonna sit tight and continue working on my yoga.

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