as strange as it might sound, some people 'enjoy their work' and are not driven by making

as much money as they can in other industries.

People within the games industry seem to enjoy working lots of hours, because they like coding!

CrAZykIdZ !

Posted By: shoddy on November 14th 2008 at 11:26:04

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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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