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YOUR PLANS OF THE FUTURE?
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Shade_Hunter
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CloseI dont really know if this kind of topic exists yet, but still i am doing it.
I would like to ask that what kind of plans do you have in mind for the future?
Future job? Are you going to do? Going to abroad along with work?
Why am i asking this???
I am just a curious, because i dont suppose that any of you are going to be a firefigter or a police offiser. Maybe, but it is very unlikely.
What about me?
So... I am going to be a composer, if any of you didint know it.
Maybe i would go abroad to live some years.
Okay. There you go. Now is your turn to tell something...
I would like to ask that what kind of plans do you have in mind for the future?
Future job? Are you going to do? Going to abroad along with work?
Why am i asking this???
I am just a curious, because i dont suppose that any of you are going to be a firefigter or a police offiser. Maybe, but it is very unlikely.
What about me?
So... I am going to be a composer, if any of you didint know it.
Maybe i would go abroad to live some years.
Okay. There you go. Now is your turn to tell something...
Cool thread idea, dude.
I've been studying comic art for the past 6 years, and pretty soon I'll be lining my pockets as a professional illustrator. It'd be nice to get my second book published too, but that's a few drafts from happening anyhow.
First and foremost, I want to run the Forum RPG so I can perfect the system for future forum games. Possibly doing up a Rulebook for Dungeons and Drag-Queens based on it, maybe.
I've been studying comic art for the past 6 years, and pretty soon I'll be lining my pockets as a professional illustrator. It'd be nice to get my second book published too, but that's a few drafts from happening anyhow.
First and foremost, I want to run the Forum RPG so I can perfect the system for future forum games. Possibly doing up a Rulebook for Dungeons and Drag-Queens based on it, maybe.
Shade_Hunter
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author=Dudesoft
It'd be nice to get my second book published too, but that's a few drafts from happening anyhow.
Nice. Are you a writer? What is the name of your book?
In the summer of 2014 me and my partner, matrixmancs are going to the Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto and studying Video Game Design. After that 18 month course we're planning to get started on our independent game design company. I haven't thought about much after that of course, since that's a good 14-18 years worth of time right there.
(Maybe that estimate seems ridiculously over-the-top, but given the production schedules we've lined up for ourselves and the projects we want to do I think it's fair).
(Maybe that estimate seems ridiculously over-the-top, but given the production schedules we've lined up for ourselves and the projects we want to do I think it's fair).
Right now:
I'm saving money and paying bills with contract work - making websites, coding apps & games, writing documents - all day and make video games at night. Forever or until I get enough experience and money to ask for money for the games I make.
In the future:
I wanna make video games on a small team or solo, and somehow make a living.
I've more or less figured out that working on a team of over 4 or 5 people is horrendous and while I wouldn't be opposed to a traditional game industry job, I would be doing it mostly for the money and I would want to make my own games as well.
This was a good idea for a topic.
I'm saving money and paying bills with contract work - making websites, coding apps & games, writing documents - all day and make video games at night. Forever or until I get enough experience and money to ask for money for the games I make.
In the future:
I wanna make video games on a small team or solo, and somehow make a living.
I've more or less figured out that working on a team of over 4 or 5 people is horrendous and while I wouldn't be opposed to a traditional game industry job, I would be doing it mostly for the money and I would want to make my own games as well.
This was a good idea for a topic.
author=Shade_HunterFirst is Bubblegum Wishes by J.S. Longstreet
Nice. Are you a writer? What is the name of your book?
author=MrCharlesMugfordNice! Fellow Torontonian in da house.
Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto
author=Dudesoftauthor=MrCharlesMugfordNice! Fellow Torontonian in da house.
Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto
Soon to be Torontonian that is. We still live in western Newfoundland at the moment.
author=MrCharlesMugfordauthor=DudesoftSoon to be Torontonian that is. We still live in western Newfoundland at the moment.author=MrCharlesMugfordNice! Fellow Torontonian in da house.
Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto
Oh okay! Well when you get here, I can tell you some good places to grab a beer or play a board game.
Eh, I'm uncertain about my future. Chances are that I will be doing some boring office work in the future or still working in the box factory.
Improve in piano as much as I can and give classes, as well study translator/interpreter career since I like languages and it gives you a decent profit. If I can get out of Mexico since I don't like to much living in here hehehe.
Honestly? I don't know.
I've almost finished my 2nd year of University studying Computer Science and haven't got any relevant work experience to speak of - granted, I DID receive a Year in Industry offer from BlackBerry but I didn't want to risk it as it was (a) in another city (b) a role I didn't originally apply for, so I declined it.
Whether that was a good idea or the worst decision I've ever made depends on what I get up to in the next couple of months, so the pressure's on: Both in terms of figuring out what I really want to do (software engineering is the obvious choice but jobs are scarce in this shitty economy, plus I don't think I'd survive programming for 8 hours a day), and in terms of making sure my parents don't rip me to shreds as a result of my reckless decisions in the past. Whoopee.
There are lots of interesting fields related to Computer Science (AI, information security, data science and distributed systems to name a few) but I have no idea which one I'd pick over the rest. And even if I do decide on one, I'm going to have a hard time trying to secure funding for further studies because apparently postgraduate scholarships are ridiculously hard to get for some reason. Whatever the case, like I said, I'm going to have to make up my mind sooner rather than later. Time is running out...
EDIT: It really stinks. I've been achieving high-80's and 90's in every module (bar one 74% oh no) since I started the course and now I'm being told I'm going to be one of the shittier job applicants because of my lack of work experience. I mean, I can understand that employers might prefer those who could "hit the ground running" but then what the hell are graduate schemes for? And has all my hard work up to date been for nothing? What a joke.
I've almost finished my 2nd year of University studying Computer Science and haven't got any relevant work experience to speak of - granted, I DID receive a Year in Industry offer from BlackBerry but I didn't want to risk it as it was (a) in another city (b) a role I didn't originally apply for, so I declined it.
Whether that was a good idea or the worst decision I've ever made depends on what I get up to in the next couple of months, so the pressure's on: Both in terms of figuring out what I really want to do (software engineering is the obvious choice but jobs are scarce in this shitty economy, plus I don't think I'd survive programming for 8 hours a day), and in terms of making sure my parents don't rip me to shreds as a result of my reckless decisions in the past. Whoopee.
There are lots of interesting fields related to Computer Science (AI, information security, data science and distributed systems to name a few) but I have no idea which one I'd pick over the rest. And even if I do decide on one, I'm going to have a hard time trying to secure funding for further studies because apparently postgraduate scholarships are ridiculously hard to get for some reason. Whatever the case, like I said, I'm going to have to make up my mind sooner rather than later. Time is running out...
EDIT: It really stinks. I've been achieving high-80's and 90's in every module (bar one 74% oh no) since I started the course and now I'm being told I'm going to be one of the shittier job applicants because of my lack of work experience. I mean, I can understand that employers might prefer those who could "hit the ground running" but then what the hell are graduate schemes for? And has all my hard work up to date been for nothing? What a joke.
That really sucks :/ I get the idea of internships, but it's strange that having a degree and an amazing GPA isn't enough to get a foot in the door anymore, especially in a BS. I guess companies are just playing it super-safe nowadays... still, I'm surprised the market for CSE majors is so fierce. I always thought it was one of the safer bets.
Internships nowadays are pretty shitty, too. When I was working towards engineering, they paid well but only took people with 4.0s. When I was going into games, they expected you to work 40 hours for free "for the experience", which was an opportunity I could never afford.
Maybe this junk is all to be expected in a bad global economy, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. I'm 23 and starting to feel the pressure of needing to succeed and be self-sufficient, and I keep wondering if I must just be really lazy or dumb because I'm not making money.
Anyway, you're only 2 years in right? Is it possible to try and get an internship next summer before you graduate?
Internships nowadays are pretty shitty, too. When I was working towards engineering, they paid well but only took people with 4.0s. When I was going into games, they expected you to work 40 hours for free "for the experience", which was an opportunity I could never afford.
Maybe this junk is all to be expected in a bad global economy, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. I'm 23 and starting to feel the pressure of needing to succeed and be self-sufficient, and I keep wondering if I must just be really lazy or dumb because I'm not making money.
Anyway, you're only 2 years in right? Is it possible to try and get an internship next summer before you graduate?
Hmm, my plans are a bit different than most that have been said: to go down the career of biochemistry or maybe astronomy. One of the major sciences I can make some decent money in. Though, I'm leaning toward biochemistry since it may give me a job where I travel the world from one part of the company I work for to another. Well, maybe it's reaching, but I can dream. Astronomy still sounds cool though.
@ YM Reminds me of the question: If all jobs require experience, how do you get experience?
@ YM Reminds me of the question: If all jobs require experience, how do you get experience?
author=slashphoenixCS might be a safer bet in the US but here in the UK it's a dire situation with respect to every industry apart from Medicine: I was looking at graduate software engineering jobs on a local website that lists application numbers and they didn't make for easy reading to say the least (usually 100+ for each job).
That really sucks :/ I get the idea of internships, but it's strange that having a degree and an amazing GPA isn't enough to get a foot in the door anymore, especially in a BS. I guess companies are just playing it super-safe nowadays... still, I'm surprised the market for CSE majors is so fierce. I always thought it was one of the safer bets.
Maybe this junk is all to be expected in a bad global economy, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. I'm 23 and starting to feel the pressure of needing to succeed and be self-sufficient, and I keep wondering if I must just be really lazy or dumb because I'm not making money.Hey, at least you're doing freelance work! I'm nowhere near good enough for that kind of thing, myself (my indecisiveness rearing its ugly head again)...at the moment, anyway.
Anyway, you're only 2 years in right? Is it possible to try and get an internship next summer before you graduate?Here in the UK Bachelor's degrees run for three years as opposed to the four years of US college..I'll be graduating next year. I can still try for internships after I graduate, though, so it's not all doom and gloom. I just really need to find something to do over the summer.
author = GourdyWell, for stuff like programming it's not too hard to get experience, to be honest! That's because it's relatively easy to do stuff in one's own time, like open-source projects and all that jazz. The IT industry may be shitty atm, but let's just say I'm really freaking glad I didn't continue studying engineering...
@ YM Reminds me of the question: If all jobs require experience, how do you get experience?
I'm hoping you mean astronomy instead of astrology btw. Don't want you turning into ivory lol
I can't speak to CSE, but I know for games (especially for artists and designers) having a portfolio of work is critical. Making a cool little program or app or something seems like something awesome to show to employers! It's unbelievable how often I'll meet people who've graduated with a degree but who have never made a game/finalized piece/program before.
I find my contract work for local companies on Craigslist, so it's hardly like I'm doing big fancy stuff :P I've gotten work doing everything from indie games to learning apps to interactive theater to writing business proposals (idk how I got into that one...) and this is a guy with a degree in Digital Media and a terrible portfolio imho.
You should consider it! Contract work is sketchy and weird but you meet interesting people and sometimes its fun! Also there's money too.
Good luck :)
I find my contract work for local companies on Craigslist, so it's hardly like I'm doing big fancy stuff :P I've gotten work doing everything from indie games to learning apps to interactive theater to writing business proposals (idk how I got into that one...) and this is a guy with a degree in Digital Media and a terrible portfolio imho.
You should consider it! Contract work is sketchy and weird but you meet interesting people and sometimes its fun! Also there's money too.
Good luck :)
Mr_Detective
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I plan to get a Computer Science or Engineering Science degree as fast as possible and leave school forever. I am sick of getting stuff shoved down my throat. The only class that I truly enjoy is Japanese. :D
I wanted to become an engineer so that I can create robots. As I grow up, I realized that I must have a degree in CS to write AI codes. If I choose to be a game designer, that would be easier. But for now, I just wanna focus on a CS degree first. An ES degree requires mostly the same classes so I wouldn't worry much about it for now. :)
You got a degree in CS already ? How much math did you have to do ? :O
Those so-called graduate schemes are there so they can make money off of you. The amount of money you have to pay for classes and books isn't low. :P
I wanted to become an engineer so that I can create robots. As I grow up, I realized that I must have a degree in CS to write AI codes. If I choose to be a game designer, that would be easier. But for now, I just wanna focus on a CS degree first. An ES degree requires mostly the same classes so I wouldn't worry much about it for now. :)
author=Yellow Magic
Honestly? I don't know.
I've almost finished my 2nd year of University studying Computer Science and haven't got any relevant work experience to speak of. I mean, I can understand that employers might prefer those who could "hit the ground running" but then what the hell are graduate schemes for? And has all my hard work up to date been for nothing? What a joke.
You got a degree in CS already ? How much math did you have to do ? :O
Those so-called graduate schemes are there so they can make money off of you. The amount of money you have to pay for classes and books isn't low. :P
