In the end time is the only finite resource.

If you spend or lose money you can make it back. If you lose friends you can find more.

If you fritter away and waste your time you'll never get that time back and you're then just that little bit closer to the grave.

Spend every second wisely.

I would drop out of high school, settle for a vocational college diploma, leave my friends and family behind and move across the world, and deal with crappy Thai Internet for 5 years.

Oh wait, that’s what I did do.

L. Spiro

I would give my right arm if it meant making it in this industry. Seriously.

Not only that, but all of the greats in history all spent significantly more than an 8 hour work day working on their dreams and desires. Mozart, Einstein, John Coltrane, Leonardo DaVinci, Charles Darwin, and countless had worked so many hours, put all of their energy and time into what they loved, and they turned out to be the best of their kind.

Which one of those guys is famous for dreaming up what his ideal job would be and what he would give up for it?

Not only that, but all of the greats in history all spent significantly more than an 8 hour work day working on their dreams and desires. Mozart, Einstein, John Coltrane, Leonardo DaVinci, Charles Darwin, and countless had worked so many hours, put all of their energy and time into what they loved, and they turned out to be the best of their kind.

Which one of those guys is famous for dreaming up what his ideal job would be and what he would give up for it?

No one ever is famous for doing that except maybe Einstein who famously told his wife that he would give up his Nobel prize winnings to her if she would leave him alone and let him work.

But that post was in response to the previous comment. It is about what are you willing to do to achieve your goal. And how people had sacrifice a lot to get what they want. Like Einstein and his wife.

With the current state of the industry, its not about what your willing to give, but what you're willing to have taken.

It is about what are you willing to do to achieve your goal. And how people had sacrifice a lot to get what they want. Like Einstein and his wife.

Dedicating your life to advancing the world's knowledge in a certain field definitely is a very noble and valuable thing to do, but do keep in mind that revolutionizing the field of physics is very different from being a tiny cog in a large machine built to churn out <insert generic annual title here>.

Of course, not every game development job is about churning out generic game titles, but in a lot of cases it does come down to this.

It is about what are you willing to do to achieve your goal. And how people had sacrifice a lot to get what they want. Like Einstein and his wife.

Dedicating your life to advancing the world's knowledge in a certain field definitely is a very noble and valuable thing to do, but do keep in mind that revolutionizing the field of physics is very different from being a tiny cog in a large machine built to churn out <insert generic annual title here>.

Of course, not every game development job is about churning out generic game titles, but in a lot of cases it does come down to this.

Exactly. I guess it just depends on what the individual finds noble or important.

I'm not really understanding those that are saying the gaming industry is miserable, robotic, a reality check etc... It's almost as if you completely missed the question, which would be in short what would you do to gain your dream job in the gaming industry. Let's take a step back to try and define your dream job. In vision a younger you(if you still can); vibrant, preconceived notions of what the industry is or could be your aspirations ,full of P*ss and vinegar. Than you got a job at a development company and realized that job is nothing what you assumed perhaps your only a "cog in the machine", now stop and ask yourself 'is this job the dream or merely a rung in the ladder or stepping stone, have you fully reached your potential, is that all there is with no possibility to change your current reality?'. Being an entrepreneur myself currently living my dream (or atleast working towards it) I find it hard to swallow people accepting realities others have written for them, you changed your views on the industry once, CHANGE IT AGAIN. Stop the "cant,wont,impossible" remove those words from your lexicon they don't really exist anyway; replace them with "How,will,possible" . Stop Complaining, you are writing the book don't like the industry Change it, if you wont change it then be doomed to ghostwriters. Replacing all of those and keeping all of that in mind. What would you be willing to trade to get your Dream job in the gaming industry......... and why haven't you yet?.