Plus the desire to work crazy hours at pay that is a fraction of what you'd get...

...working in the business software industry.
Video games are arguably the most complex software of all.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on November 14th 2008 at 11:22:40

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If you and I swapped jobs by magic osmosis right this instant, what would I be doing? (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 10:55:11
- Sorry; not possible (General Chat) - Nelsons final flanel, Nov 14, 12:22:05
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Nelsons final flanel, Nov 14, 12:27:05
  - ^^^ Works at Mattressman (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 12:24:28
    - lol (correctly placed this time) (n/m) (General Chat) - Nelsons final flanel, Nov 14, 12:27:52
- you would be at home recovering from a sickness bug that's swept through the office (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Nov 14, 12:09:04
  - Weren't you off last week with 'flu'? You're on a bad run meggers. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 12:15:34
- filling in expenses sheet...... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Nov 14, 11:58:53
- you'd be weighing out drugs (General Chat) - Gunnys mullet, Nov 14, 11:40:54
  - You at the game tomorrow? (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:41:48
    - yessum (General Chat) - Gunnys mullet, Nov 14, 11:43:09
- You'd be Illustrator-ing and Photoshop-ing... (General Chat) - Declan, Nov 14, 11:33:20
- You would be going: (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Nov 14, 11:26:40
  - lol - nice one (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 11:27:21
- You would be.... (General Chat) - DemoniCanary, Nov 14, 11:24:46
- you would have just booked some train tickets for a client (General Chat) - south, Nov 14, 11:23:56
- Going up to people in an NHS office and saying "Do you have anything you want me to do?" (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Nov 14, 11:19:51
- You would be completing a new design of Prodger mechanism (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 14, 11:18:14
- Getting ready to go mountain bikin' - it's my day off. (General Chat) - peak canary, Nov 14, 11:15:55
- Trying to work out what the f**k u_int8_t is and which header files define it (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:09:49
- Recruiting programmers into Video Games studios. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 14, 11:08:00
  - What are the requirements? (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:12:07
    - Well.. (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 14, 11:19:11
      - Bo (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:24:28
        
        *No (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:24:33
      - I did my under-grad dissertation on the first principles of 3d graphics. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:22:52
        
        View Frustrum! Quaternions! Eigenvectors! (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 14, 11:26:36
      - Plus the desire to work crazy hours at pay that is a fraction of what you'd get... (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 14, 11:22:40
        
        as strange as it might sound, some people 'enjoy their work' and are not driven by making (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 14, 11:26:04
        
        ^^^ Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:23:35
        
        salary discussion (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 11:25:38
    - go to art college (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 14, 11:17:54
    - If the games studios I've known employees from are any guide, top requirement will be (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:16:47
    - A comprehensive knowledge of, and extensive experience in, video game programming. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 11:13:04
      - I meant languages and experience... (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 14, 11:18:06
        
        english and viginity intact (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 14, 11:18:53
        
        *virginity* (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 14, 11:19:23
  - how does one become a programmer? (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Nov 14, 11:11:00
    - By a spectrum (n/m) (General Chat) - harry boulders, Nov 14, 11:17:23
      - *buy (n/m) (General Chat) - harry boulders, Nov 14, 11:17:36
    - Can you type "10 PRINT 'Hello World!'; 20 GOT 10"? (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:14:21
      - lol (General Chat) - Charles21, Nov 14, 11:22:18
      - SYNTAX ERROR AT LINE 20; REDO FROM START; (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:15:02
- You would be writing software to allow local authorities to collate (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 14, 11:02:06
- posting on the Wrath (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 14, 11:01:24
- you'd be sitting at home watching tennis (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Nov 14, 11:00:49
- Surely I would be posting on the Wrath? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 14, 10:55:42
  - yes (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 14, 10:56:17

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