Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUN 2022年6月 亞博匯 48 IN FOCUS IAG: Thanks for speaking with us John (pseudonym), could you tell us a bit about your background? John: I joined the industry in 2009 when I was still not yet 18 years old, but there was no age limit to work in a pawnshop. In 2009, when the financial crisis was recovering, it was very easy to find a job, especially in a pawnshop. I first started working in a pawnshop nearby MGM Macau, then was moved to another pawnshop in a casino in Cotai. I worked in the pawnshop industry for over 10 years until I left during the pandemic. When I worked in a pawnshop, my duties mainly involved pawning and selling expensive items. Basically, pawnshops sell things that rich people like, so many pawnshops have jewelry, expensive clothes and so on. But money exchange and cash back have always been services provided by pawnshops too, at least until the crackdown in recent years stopped it.