What Do You Want To Talk About? (EnWorld edition)

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

So? It's your company. You can hire anyone you want.

 

[EscherEnigma]

[...] or 1-4 shipped titles.

... before I start in on the rant this quote inspired in me, I want to verify that the basis of the rant was correct.

Are you looking for a job in the video game industry?

Aside from that, you're right, they don't know you did something wrong. But the risk of someone that's unemployed having done "something wrong" is greater then the risk of a currently employed chap doing the same. As for looking for people with experience... you're right, someone will give jobs without prior experience. But frankly the market is so competitive right now that someone else already got it. And with how many are in the job-seeking market employers can do that and get away with it.

Remember: they're selfish.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Actually, I'm looking for anything animation. I know people who work for computer game companies, and have heard many of their horror stories, and have a decent idea of how limited chances of getting into that are. (Damn, some of that stuff is messed up). Spent a lot of time in Publishing (hence 'titles'). Not picky about the industry or job: Just want to get paid for something I'm good at.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Actually, I'm looking for anything animation. I know people who work for computer game companies, and have heard many of their horror stories, and have a decent idea of how limited chances of getting into that are. (Damn, some of that stuff is messed up). Spent a lot of time in Publishing (hence 'titles'). Not picky about the industry or job: Just want to get paid for something I'm good at.

I'll take "What's the last thing a girl from the mid-west says before her first porn movie," Alex.

 

[sabrinathecat]

I'll take "What's the last thing a girl from the mid-west says before her first porn movie," Alex.

Or any artist.

 

[EscherEnigma]

So art (of any stripe). And you're surprised that employers can afford to be very picky. There's a reason the "starving artist" is a stereotype, ya know.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I'm flipping through the tv channels, and I just came up on one of the greatest movies made: Rubber.

 

[The_Silversword]

Rubber? The one about the tire with psychic powers that goes around killing people? You liked that better than Gymkata!? What the hell is amatter with you!?

 

[Kramodlog]

Dude! Rubber is so much more thought provoking. It is a metaphore about our relation to nature, over consumption and the alienation of individuals by the chain of production of the industrial world.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I'm flipping through the tv channels, and I just came up on one of the greatest movies made: Rubber.

That movie pwns so, so hard.