What best describes your situation?
I wish you the best of luck, just follow what your heart says :)
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Good luck in your new career and thanks for the great GA! ^^
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There is one thing i've learned in life, you really should have job you want to do, without it life always be lacking of something
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Try always to do what you like to do, the life is better that way. Bump.
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If your dream is really to become a game designer, I think you should follow it, sooner or later
Right now, you could try "playing around" with game making software as an hobby (at least, that's exactly what I'm doing):
- Unreal Engine, CryEngine and Unity are good and free starting points (technically, CryEngine is pay-what-you-want).
Anyway, regardless of what you choose to do, I wish you good luck!
Thanks for the Dragon Ball giveaway!
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If you have a passion, you should follow it. Doing what you are driven to do will help you persevere when things become difficult. Forcing yourself to continue on with a job you don't like is "drudgery," but forcing yourself to continue on with a job tied to your passion is merely "a challenge."
Do what you love and find a way to make money in the process.
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bump and good luck! doing what you are passionate about is best! stay away from those slave driving game companies. i hear EA treats their employees terrible.
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Hopefully I won't go working for a publisher haha, but we'll see where everything turns out :)
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I would suggest you keep it on the side until you know you can make a career out of it. Security and all that. As for judgement, who cares? You want to make games, that's great. That's programming, so your engineering family members shouldn't have much reason to look down. It's directly useful and would make people happy, so there goes anyone else's reason.. It's also an INCREDIBLY difficult and competitive field, but if you can enter it successfully, there is literally nothing to complain about or look down on. Very few people follow their dreams and even fewer make it a reality. That deserves respect as far as I'm concerned. Good luck, man!
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Bump'd for Thanks.
I'm sorry I can't help, though. Networking is something I never learned how to do.
Take care.
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Hey everyone! There's no real point to this thread, it's mostly for me to vent. So if you're here just for the GA, skip on down to the bottom :) No judgement.
I'm currently working as a Business Developer in a very small project/program management consulting firm. That basically means my company makes sure other companies do the work they need to in the right amount of time and without spending too much money, and my job is to sell our services to other companies. The pay is good and the work is decent, but it's not what I want to do.
I really want to get into Game Design. It's been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember and has always been greatly rewarding for me. I have worked on a few small games (mostly in college) and have taken away more and more from each experience, but I never considered it as a career for several reasons; the biggest one being I fear being judged. Coming from a family of lawyers, engineers, and doctors, I'd feel like they (and other people I know) would think of me as immature and unprofessional. I have always been the fun, childish one of the family, but that was always seen as good because it was part of my personality, not my work life. They have been very supportive of my decision to change careers, but I still feel like this is a mental block for me.
There are already a few companies I am zeroing in on, and I have applied to several jobs, so I am moving forward! Now the biggest hurtle I need to leap is finding a contact in the industry to talk to. I will do a much better job of selling myself in person than my resume can do when competing against a sea of applicants, and I likely have a lot more flexibility when it comes to type of work. So I'm looking for ways to build my network and hoping to finally find that one person that will be the key to landing a job.
That's it for my rant, so I hope I didn't bore you. Hopefully in a year I will have another update with a new job title! Here's your GA:
GA: Dragon Ball Xenoverse
Reqs: Level 2
End: Fri May 13, 2:30 ET (UST -5:00)
Enjoy! And please bump!
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