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sector in Gibraltar was the only real opportunity to make a career for a foreigner living in Gibraltar. Local companies in Gibraltar are quite closed off as they prefer family and lifelong friends to work in higher positions and employ Spanish people for the cheap labour. Several other foreigners I knew for years worked many years in gaming companies and all had reached high and well paid positions in a relatively short time span. I specifically liked GVC as it was one of the biggest gaming companies locally and had a strategy to grow which would create opportunities. GVC also had locations in several other countries like Austria, Bulgaria, UK, USA and India and I saw that as an opportunity to travel for work. 9. Another advantage of GVC/bwin was that the company also offered the whole range of products: sports betting, casino, bingo and poker and with bwin and partypoker had some of the best known brands on the market. My plan, about which I had thought a long time, was to start at the very bottom, in Customer Service. I saw that as a perfect position to get to know the in house developed products, different types of customers and their needs and the different departments. Then, after an estimated maximum two years, I would decide based on my experiences in the company in what direction I wanted to continue and grow within the company. As I had very little interest in sports and was not a casino player myself, I guessed initially that I would grow in the poker product, the only product I had a real affinity with. On the other hand my engineering Master of Science degree and many years of work in IT as a systems engineer, programmer and database administrator could come in handy. I was aware that some of that knowledge was a bit outdated but the general principles of IT do not change so I could pick up again quickly and learn on the job and with self-study as I had done before in other jobs. I started my first day with an open mind and looked very much forward to see how my career would prosper from there. 10. On the same day there were two other new starters for my team: Stef van Veen and Dennis Dorland, both of them from the Netherlands while I am from Belgium/Flanders. We speak the same language Dutch although with a different accent, comparable to UK English and American English. There was also Christoffer Thomsen for the Scandinavian team. I later found out that he had the same team leader, Susana Martin, as my Dutch/Flemish team. I noticed that the four of us were all somewhat older, not the typical |
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