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[–] 58 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

This whole industry is job security hell. Man, people decades ago dreamed of being somewhere in the industry. I don't really know now who'd want to be in it knowing how awful job security even is.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's like the movie industry, now. They only have a job as long as the game is in production, and all they get is the weekly paycheck.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    When I was a teenager, I really wanted to work in the video game industry. Really glad I don't. I still want to learn to make video games, but I never want to work for any video game company. Especially any that have been around for say.. 20 years and/or publicly traded.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Unfortunately, you're not the demographic the industry is looking for. What they want now is obedient, but expendable staff who'll only be on long enough to see a project done. Then you're discarded. The other pocket of people they'd want is, you know what type.

    You're better of being your own independent video game worker.

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