Career Aspirations

[iCarbonX]

What's your ideal/dream job?

And don't say: "work for Team 17" :p

[bonz]

Work as bartender in whichever pub in Ossett is nearest to the T17 HQ.
I'd get rich very quickly.

[robowurmz]

Become a game programmer.

[minute55]

Um...Work for 17 bit software?

Work for nintendo.

[Diablo vt]

Game developer.

[SupSuper]

Hate to sound tacky, but game engineer.

[Xinos]

Is it just me or does everybody want to work in games these days?

I refuse to do something boring for a living where I am not required to think.
So if I can work in the games industry making graphics every day, I will be quite happy.

[Melon]

Is it just me or does everybody want to work in games these days?
This is a forum dedicated to a game making company. What sort of answers were you expecting? :p

[Liketyspli]

Serial Killer

[MtlAngelus]

President of the United States of America.

[MrBunsy]

Electronic hardware/software/communications engineering of some sort (haven't specialised yet).

Games look interesting, but seem hard to get into. If I ever had a change of heart though, I'd probably go for physics programming.

[thomasp]

Is it just me or does everybody want to work in games these days?


I don't :p I'm doing a degree in aeronautical engineering - and the closest that gets to the games industry is playing Flight Sim or X-Plane.

[pilot62]

Engineering weapons, because I have high moral standards.

[franpa]

I wish this thread was locked, it discriminates against potential new Team17 staff :/

[Plasma]

God.




Which is why you don't ask me about my dream job.


In all seriousness though, a game programmer (obviously). Preferrably for Maxis or Team17.

[Alien King]

Anything that will make me a large amount of money with minimal effort.
Except accountancy - never that.

[Akuryou13]

3D Modeller/Animator. don't care if it's movies or video games (though obviously I would prefer video games to some extent).

[*Splinter*]

I seriously couldnt care less if I ended up a garbageman. Arguably a waste of a maths degree but I didnt come to uni for a sodding degree

[super_frea]

Animator.
It's what I'm going to Uni to study anyway.

[bonz]

I'm still somewhere in the middle of my molecular biology degree.
I've got a decent job at the biotech company I've been working for the past 3.5 years, so unless the company goes bankrupt I think that I won't be spending a lot of time for studying.
President of the United States of America.
Hah!
You'd have to wait for a change in the constitution then to allow non-US citizens.
And even then you'd have to wait until Arnold Schwarzenegger has finished his one or two terms. :D

[Plasma]

Hah!
You'd have to wait for a change in the constitution then to allow non-US citizens.
And even then you'd have to wait until Arnold Schwarzenegger has finished his one or two terms. :D
You, sir, have never heard of a thing called 'dream orbital lazers'.


They lazer things.

[MtlAngelus]

Hah!
You'd have to wait for a change in the constitution then to allow non-US citizens.
And even then you'd have to wait until Arnold Schwarzenegger has finished his one or two terms. :D

Hah!
I'd love to see the constitution try and stop me and my army of deadly robots. :cool:
I'm cool about waiting for ah-nulds terms to be over. Me and him cool.

[robowurmz]

Work together; become the first Dynamic Duo Presidents!

[[UFP]Ghost]

The best job is clearly mathimagician.

[Shadowmoon]

I'd like to do something related to cartoons, an animator or something.

[.JeT]

3D/2D animator. It's, from Danish, roughly translated to "Media Animator". It takes 3 ½ years to educate as one, and I'm going to take it next year. It involves 3D, website programming, 2D animation, and other stuff.

I'm already pretty good at animating, so this is what I want to be.

[MrBunsy]

Ghost;677646']The best job is clearly mathimagician.

Do you really want to go into accounting or insurance, though? :p

[[UFP]Ghost]

Do you really want to go into accounting or insurance, though? :p

God no....but the dream job obviously would be based on math.

maybe.....programming games that are built on cartesian space.

[robowurmz]

Ghost;677769']God no....but the dream job obviously would be based on math.

maybe.....programming games that are built on cartesian space.

Nobody's tried it before, it's your calling. :P

[MrBunsy]

I've yet to come across a game that isn't. :p

[[UFP]Ghost]

of course before I can do that with my life I have to accomplish moving an O on the graph of my ti-84. Which I believe I have the necessary skills to do.

[MrBunsy]

Do it! Then write space invaders to keep you occupied during boring exams :p

[[UFP]Ghost]

Do it! Then write space invaders to keep you occupied during boring exams :p
Do it! Then write space invaders to keep you occupied during boring * Data Management & Chemistry Classes :p

I figured it out :) now how to figure out the collision mask!

[TeDdywoRm]

Animator.

Animator for me too.

3D/2D animator. It's, from Danish, roughly translated to "Media Animator". It takes 3 ½ years to educate as one, and I'm going to take it next year. It involves 3D, website programming, 2D animation, and other stuff.

I'm already pretty good at animating, so this is what I want to be.

Meh.:(

[Liketyspli]

Tuner and developer of engine parts for bikes. I'm going to study "Engineering, Design and Innovation," starting next year.

[Paul.Power]

I've yet to come across a game that isn't. :pI'm sure some games use polar coordinates. Or take place on the surface of a sphere: wasn't there a Worms clone that did that?

EDIT: Oh right, yeah, the topic. Well, currently I'm training to be a maths teacher, so that's obviously my medium-term career goal. But my dream job would probably be author or games designer, and these are things I want to work at during those long summer hols you get when you're a teacher ;).

[cyph3r]

I'd say that some of you do seem to have a slightly unrealistic idea of what working in the Games Industry is like. Believe me, it's no-where near as fun as it sounds.

Don't get me wrong, it sure beats a hell of a lot of jobs in terms of how interesting and rewarding it is, but it is still a job and thus does get very boring sometimes.

I remember a few years ago when I thought being a games tester must be the most awesomest job in the world ever... After all, you get to play the latest games way before anyone else gets to. A bit of work experience at a QA outsourcing company in Brighton (Babel) soon divorced me of that notion however...

[SupSuper]

I'm sure game programming is as boring as any job can be, but somehow I find it slightly less boring than all the other jobs that involve programming, which is all I'm good at. Plus I don't have to wear a tie. :p

[Plasma]

I never wanted to get into the game industry because it's fun, I wanted to because it produces a fun end result that you felt you actually had a part in. Despite how ridiculously long it would take.

Oh, and I'm a sucker for problem-solving. That'd be the main reason.

remember a few years ago when I thought being a games tester must be the most awesomest job in the world ever... After all, you get to play the latest games way before anyone else gets to. A bit of work experience at a QA outsourcing company in Brighton (Babel) soon divorced me of that notion however...
I believe the best advice I ever heard about game testing went along the lines of "Imagine playing the best game you ever played for an extended period of time. Now imagine playing the worst game you ever played fro an extended period of time."

[Raycaster]

I want to become a Chef. Schools of Culinary arts is where you'll find me in a bit! I'll hope to become a chef at a high end hotel or restaurant. With a camcorder I would probably have some sort of cooking show online somewhere.

Of course, I would also quite enjoy learning some 3D modelling and 3D animation, as well as 2D art to compliment that what with the need for textures... Plus I just like drawing.

Hey, I figure everyone needs to eat, and if they don't, they die. So that's job security right there. Or if I do happen to get fired for some reason, I could use my hobby to get me by somewhere 'till I got back to cooking somewhere.

[SomePerson]

Dream job? Astronaut. :cool:

But I'm much more likely to get into the engineering aspects of space exporation instead.

[Plasma]

Dream job? Astronaut. :cool:
Really? I always imagine that as a pretty sucky job! It sounds awesome in theory, but in reality it involves a LOT of waiting around.

[MrBunsy]

Hey, I figure everyone needs to eat, and if they don't, they die.

Yes, but most people generally cook for themselves when they're low on money :p

[koolies54]

I'd like to be a journalist

[yakuza]

I want to be on TV and I'm almost there.

[Routhy]

I'll do some traveling, fall in love, raise 6 kids, then my wife/husband will die and my writing (which up until this point will have been unpublished) will take a dark turn as I rapidly descend into alcoholism. In my dying years I'll become an incredibly popular writer, then I'll die, leaving behind my carefully planned and wonderfully eccentric will.

[MrBunsy]

That's remarkably specific.

[AndrewTaylor]

Make sure to end on a dark but beautiful mystery that remains tantalisingly unfinished.

[SomePerson]

my wife/husband will die

So you've planned every aspect of your life except the gender of the person you marry?:p

[Metal Alex]

So you've planned every aspect of your life except the gender of the person you marry?:p

My guess is that he/she wasn't born yet, and still has to decide a gender for the incoming FETUS.

[Paul.Power]

My guess is that they simply want to keep their own gender a secret.

That or they're bisexual.

[Alien King]

That or they're bisexual.

That does leave a potential problem for the children aspect.
Although I suppose adoption is perfectly viable.

[Plasma]

You're going to have quite a few problems trying to adopt 6 kids though.

[AndrewTaylor]

You could adopt one and clone it off a few times.

[Alien King]

You could adopt one and clone it off a few times.

Well if it's a gay male couple, you might have a problem trying to insert the fertilised cells into a womb.

[AndrewTaylor]

I assumed they'd use some kind of glass tank full of tubes and bubbling translucent gloop.

[Alien King]

I assumed they'd use some kind of glass tank full of tubes and bubbling translucent gloop.

Oh yes, I forgot; Science.

[Metal Alex]

Oh yes, I forgot; Science.

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/07/scienceshirt.jpg

[yauhui]

Career aspirations?

None at the moment, I guess.

[super_frea]

Probably best not to post then...

[Akuryou13]

since this is about careers I figured I'd post this here:

it's a color-based career profiler. you pick the colors it picks the job you'll be best at. it's pretty darn accurate:

http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx

for the record, I'm a Creator/Researcher.

[Plasma]

1: Organiser
2: Researcher

Mmm... not right, but something along the mark.

[Akuryou13]

1: Organiser
2: Researcher

Mmm... not right, but something along the mark.they seem to only have a few categories that you can fall in to. I snagged this from another forum and among like 20 people or so I saw maybe 5 different categories. those 2 may just be the closest they have.

[Plasma]

Yeah, I suspected that: they're not really accurate at all, they just give really vague answers that nearly apply to everyone.

[Akuryou13]

Yeah, I suspected that: they're not really accurate at all, they just give really vague answers that nearly apply to everyone.I wouldn't go as far as to say THAT :p the answers they have are definitely fairly general, but it's specific enough to help narrow a career search for most people.

you're just a mutant :p

[SupSuper]

The website errored out for me, so I guess that's accurate. :p