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I'm at the edge of being able to buy a house in my lifetime and it is so frustrating. I've had decent career progression, I live fairly comfortably right now, I still rent. Every year my finances are at a place where I could afford a home in a couple years but those couple of years never gets closer. I've decided I'm going back to college instead so I can crack into a more fulfilling but lower paying job. If I'm going to be a wage slave forever might as well be doing something I find value in instead of chasing a dead dream of owning a house
Ouuuhh interesting! Watcha gonna study?
Back to game dev. I tried the first time around over ten years ago, dropped out of college, got one abusive job in, then switched to QA automation for pay. I had a heavy focus on programming because I'm naturally good at it but I want to be a level designer so I'm going to study that specifically. Gonna halve my salary or worse to get into level design
I graduated college a couple years ago with a comp sci degree. I had dreams of game dev as a kid, but anxiety about pay and affording a house plus just the overall shittiness in the games industry pushed me elsewhere. I’m currently in a QA automation job for a consulting company… wondering if I’m going to become you in 10 years
If you're trans too then add that to the list lol. I got pulled away from the industry for stability reasons but I'm not in that situation anymore. I've only ever wanted to be a game dev, as a kid it never occurred to me to be anything else, it still doesn't. I know I'm not one of those hotshot early twenties devs who cracked into the industry right away, I'm a bit slow to it, but I'll get there if it kills me