As a B.A. holding custodian I resemble that remark!
Yep. Wanted to go into astronomy. There are, like, 3 jobs and they’re held by greybeards until they pass away.
Many moons ago I ran the production floor in a factory. Seasonally we’d hire day laborers to help us clean and do the gross stuff, shoveling waste from behind the machinery, cleaning out sumps etc.
I remember this one guy who was having like, a crisis while cleaning dead seagulls from our ventilation system. He was just like “I have a degree, I went to school!”. When I asked what his degree was he said Medieval Art History and I laughed. I felt bad laughing but like, what did he think he was going to be?
The worst part was 6 months later we had the agency send us more people and he came back.
I’m in university now, and I was very very careful about my choice of degree.
I started college before covid, becoming a game programmer.
- Boom. NFTs and Blockchains
- Then Covid hit, eliminating many jobs and studios
- Finally, AI/LLMs hit, and the companies that survived want to do that now
I’m happy I got the degree and experience, I’m sad because now those jobs are gone, changed, or became near impossible to get into.
Have LLMs really changed game dev that much? Aside from giving you a tool to help development, that is.
Game devs get paid shit wages, so honestly it could be a good thing that those jobs are “gone”. Just feed the marketing and management people their slop and take the paycheck home.
If you really want to be a game dev and not sell your soul for no pay then being an indie dev is really the only way to go. But that also requires having a good idea, beating your soul to death for a few years, then maybe you can cash out.
Yeah, it’s a real gamble. Most indie games fail.
I chose a STEM degree and made less than a McDonald’s manager, because academic science jobs pay poorly
didn’t you get the memo: you need a masters degree to get a BA job
Masters degree plus years of experience for entry level work.
Or choose a major you love and you’ll never work a day in your life bc that rank is paid quite well.
I studied philosophy and love being a successful software engineer.
bc
If you can’t complete a word, you won’t complete a thesis.
We loved hot dog weiners in the Kraft dinner, which is a fair approximation because we couldn’t afford KD back then. Ground pepper, and also ketchup when we could afford to be fully blasphemous.
KD
Is this you?