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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronLoeb" data-source="post: 428370" data-attributes="member: 4382">Both of these statements are so incredible accurate that they've wrapped all the way around the globe of accuracy and become accurate squared! (No, I don't know what that means either).In 1998, dot com jobs were paying buckets of money more than game jobs, particularly out here in the West (some times three times more). But we saw where those dot com jobs got people. Those aside, a skilled DBA or contractor can still make 6 figures without breakign a sweat, and very few game engineers do. On top of that very, very few of the people making games get righ except for the lucky few who hit the lottery and have points on Grand Theft Auto III. So, you're totally right here -- if you want to make a LOT of money and that's career priority number 1, games aren't the first choice.However, I only posted about this because you listed salaries of $20,000-$25,000, which out here is well below poverty level. I just wanted to make it clear that you can actually feed a family on the salary of a game engineer these days, and no one I know of is paying engineers $20,000 anymore.AJL</blockquote>