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I’ve got an interview tomorrow with a company called Magna Entertainment. Apparently, they’re the largest horse racing entertainment company in North America. The interview is for a position that will take their off-track-betting system online so that the gamblers can spend their money from the comforts of their own home. I’m not really a gambling or a horse racing fan, so I don’t know if this would be a job that I’ll be enthusiastic for although I used to enjoy going to the jai-alai games during my college days. Maybe I’ll get the appeal of horse racing as well.

The consideration of job enjoyment is not going to matter anyway. I probably won’t have the luxury of having a choice of jobs to pick from so I think I’ll have to take the first thing that comes my way.

From a techie standpoint, the project sounds pretty challenging. I’m sure that during horse races, it can be a high-transaction system. Also, it’s real-time so the developer has to make sure that code runs as fast and robust as possible. Actually, as I write about it, I’m starting to think that this could possibly be an exciting job.