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From: Alan Yuen <Alan@argonaut.com>
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Subject: Re: i got a job!!!, was Re: Codemasters and Interviews
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:02:33 +0000
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Congrats man. I noticed that a lot of people with Yarozes and are
serious in going into games companies do. I am one example, Mike E.
was the first, then there was many after him, Rob Swan, Olley Read,
and others.


On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:08:42 -0000, "Al" <admars32@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>He, he, thanks but here comes the good part, I don't need it now :)
>
>Fri morning, post arrives, letter from Codemasters to say, can you phone
>us to arrange an interview. So I phone them up, arrange to go on Monday.
>
>The I go to dole office, sign on, tell them I've got an interview so get
>them to pay for train travel.
>
>Go to cinema watch Toy Story 2.
>
>GO home, check email get one from a company I had an interview with last
>week to say
>
>" We are interested in offering you a position, this much money, pay
>immediately, do you accept"
>
>So basically Toy Story 2 and getting a job made Friday the best day of
>my life in quite some time :) I must have read the offer email 500 times
>now :)
>
>So, at long bloody last I got a games programming job :)
>
>I was getting to the stage where I was gonna start applying for anything
>mentioning programming, and was wondering if getting more in debt and
>going to Bmouth for my MSc was such a good move after all ;)
>
>Now I get to find out how much better real PSX is over Yaroze ;)
>
>Cheers for your codemasters hints anyway :)
>
>Al

Alan

Disclamier:
My views are mine and not my company's (Argonaut) views and what I say is not as a represetive of my company's (Argonaut) either and has no relation to my company(Argonaut).