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IJ 9 Jan 2015 13:46:58 1,028 posts
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Benno wrote:
@IJ So what do you do in the games industry? What sort of skills have transferred from your city work? Or did you pick up programmer/design courses as extra curricular while you continued to work as usual?

Well I did a degree in computer science 10 years ago so I'm computer literate but I've no intention of making games, I want to produce/publish them.

This job is a short contract to help publish a mobile game, I'm mostly doing data analysis but also will be helping out with marketing. It's not what I want to do long term but it's a fantastic first step. Way beyond what I was thinking my foot in the door job would be. I'm really excited about it.

Trading gave me a ton of skills I think are directly useful. What I lack now is games experience, so that's what I need to build up.

BurnoutJunkie 9 Jan 2015 15:37:22 1,222 posts
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@IJ Just read your posts in the Ł8 mistake thread. Damn. Please don't lose money for this new company ;-)

MrTomFTW Moderator 9 Jan 2015 15:44:25 47,501 posts
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"Make an Flappy Bird clone. I hear it's the hot new thing!"

IJ 9 Jan 2015 16:14:44 1,028 posts
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BurnoutJunkie wrote:
@IJ Just read your posts in the Ł8 mistake thread. Damn. Please don't lose money for this new company

Hah! The nature of trading, hero one minute zero the next. Was always up at the end of the year so never lost the company money. More than can be said for most I worked with over the years!

Deleted user 10 January 2015 20:29:33

No one can make a proper decision on their career at 18 (or whenever it was you started your law degree). If you enjoy your job now and you can earn good money from it, why wouldn't you continue?

Deleted user 10 January 2015 20:40:19

If you start thinking too hard you'll realise how the whole world of work is bullshit and wind up under the same bridge as me Mowgs

anephric 10 Jan 2015 21:52:20 5,274 posts
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I quite often consider taking what bit of money I have and sitting on a beach in Goa until it runs out.

Deleted user 14 January 2015 21:42:37

@chun-li or you can just hang onto your cash and put it in a savings account and watch it not drop in value at all.

askew 14 Jan 2015 21:50:53 24,121 posts
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Bitcoin. Can't go wrong.

Deleted user 14 January 2015 21:57:00

You should invest in first class postage stamps

askew 14 Jan 2015 21:57:49 24,121 posts
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Has it stopped crumbling yet? I saw it was down to $180 earlier this week.

CosmicFuzz 14 Jan 2015 21:58:43 32,632 posts
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Spend the money on some Daniel Day-Lewis DVDs.

Deleted user 14 January 2015 22:03:10

WHO?!!

Deleted user 14 January 2015 22:10:48

The launch of filmcriticDOTcoDOTuk?

Deleted user 14 January 2015 22:26:26

PES_Fanboy wrote:
You should invest in first class postage stamps

I put all my wedge into goats.

Deleted user 14 January 2015 22:27:55

jablonski wrote:
Not sure what to do.

Go for it. Try producing a list of reasons why you shouldn't and if it's rubbish, then just go for it.

Load_2.0 18 Feb 2015 16:41:30 33,583 posts
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If one of the roles involves making decisions.

Don't choose that one.

CharlieStCloud 18 Feb 2015 16:48:00 5,812 posts
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@manhu

a) Flip coin 1 that has job A and job B as head and tails
b) Flip coin 2 that has job C and job D as as head and tails
c) Flip coin 3 that has the outcome of coin 1 and coin 2, and thus!
d) Your job has been chosen for you through the magic of flipping coins.

That's quite alright, no need to thank me.

chopsen 18 Feb 2015 16:54:32 21,958 posts
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What? Are you nuts? He doesn't have time to flip a coin three times!

1) flip one coin to chose between either Jobs A and B (heads) or Jobs C and D (tails)

2) Flip another coin. If
(a) the first flip was heads, you're choosing between A and B. If you have heads again, it's A, if it's tails again it's B.
(b) the first flip was a tail, you're choosing between C and D. If you have heads this time, the answer is C. If you have tails, it's D.

Deleted user 18 February 2015 17:04:22

Can't he just flip a four sided coin

THFourteen 18 Feb 2015 17:48:40 54,987 posts
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Hmmmm they are splitting my team (Technology Relationship Managers) into people who focus on "platform" (read support / managing dev requests / enhancments / training / demos etc) and people who only manage projects (range of sizes, firmwide / global to smaller team specific ones).

Not being given the opportunity to specifically pick where i want to go, but am told i can voice an opinion and i've been here for 8 years so it might carry a little weight...

Feck knows. I quite like having a hybrid role.

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