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Re: Failing to be getting a video game job by Ray of Light 08/17/2004, 11:21pm PDT
The Happiness Engine wrote:

If you're looking for computers in general, go to a help desk, show you can do it, and try to get promoted off of it into doing anything else. Once you have a resume you may be able to try for whatever you'd rather be doing.


Helpdesks are getting outsourced faster than programmers; those that remain are squeezed hard. There used to be helpdesk jobs where you could volunteer for the night shift, say, and use the idle time to learn, or to do projects, but now they are a rare and dying breed: scant margins (or ruthless cost control, in the case of in-house operations) force desks to keep their people talking all the time.

The only promotion path, usually, leads to an "overseer"-type job, and from there to the enchanted forest of management.

The best advice I could offer is to do something amazing, or at least impressive, in your spare time, and try to exploit the connections you form while doing that.

Ray!
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