D&D 5E Wizards is hiring a senior game designer for Dungeons & Dragons

[J.Quondam]

Choices have consequences.

Taking a job at WOTC that does not pay enough so you will not be "poor" is a choice.

No one "deserves" to be poor.
Period.

 

[LordEntrails]

Let's imagine, for a moment, that there's a teacher (cough, cough) participating on EN World who then reads this. Do you really think this is a respectful way to talk about other people? I deserve less money because I'm a teacher?

Absolutely it is respectful. It is factual and it points out that people make choices in life, and those choices have real consequences. Some of those consequences are monetary compensation.

I could chose to play games all day, or I could chose to to study hard at school. Take out loans for college, then struggle to get a good job. And then take a job that meant I was travelling 50 weeks a year and away from my family. All so that I could build a future for my family where after 20 years of travel I can work from home and afford nice things.

Is it respectful that someone else should get all the benefits I do and not have to have made the hard choices or sacrifices I chose to make? Not to me it isn't.

 

[LordEntrails]

No one "deserves" to be poor.
Period.

Yea, saying "period." does not prove you are right or make your argument any more impactful. All it does is indicate you refuse to listen to other's viewpoints. That you are set in your ways and obstinate. That you are not here to discuss, but rather to preach.

How about if we can't have an honest discussion we just don't engage?

 

[darjr]

Why does it seem those who waggle their finger and look down their nose while puffing up their "better choices" are the ones in the comfy seats? I think largely it's because most can't except that a lot of what they have is also due to raw circumstance.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Choices have consequences.

Taking a job at WOTC that does not pay enough so you will not be "poor" is a choice. If taking this job at WOTC will make someone "poor", as was alleged, and that person takes that job anyway, then yes they "deserve to be poor" .... they made a decision and a concious choice to be "poor".

There's a difference though between saying someone chooses a job that pays poorly, and saying that they deserve to be paid poorly.

For example, when I choose to be a teacher, I have to accept that in our current culture teachers are paid fairly terribly.

However, that doesn't mean I deserve to be paid terribly!

Do you see the difference there?

 

[Mercurius]

 

[darjr]

yea, not worth it.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

One can come from the "lower class" in the U.S. and have a 4 year degree, people do it all the time. It involves a bit of debt, but people do it because it adds value in things like...job skills.

Try alot of debt. And when you have that degree your part of the university educated class then, whatever your previous background.

 

[darjr]

Who here has applied? Anyone? Anyone going to or thinking about it?

Which position are you applying for or have applied for?

Anyone here tried with WotC before?

@Morrus What do you think? Would you even consider it at this point? Could you even work for someone else at this point?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I would like to know who was fired to create these openings, and why. Now, that information will never be disclosed.

It's not triggered by firings, it's triggered by a new stage of rapid expansion which will undoubtedly trigger cries of bloat.