Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Andrew Partington Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Jobs for a Student Hobo Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 16:22:22 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: public2-ward1-6-cust140.oldh.broadband.ntl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Andrew Murray wrote: > By May I will have finished my Honours degree, I would be looking for a job > after graduating (or possibly doing another degree if things don't work > out). I would prefer a job as that means I won't get into any more debt and > I would'nt have to sit any more exams. > > The course I'm on is not as much about the 'science' of cumputing as I would > have liked it to be, hence if I don't get a job I'd be doing a Computing > Science degree. My current course if called Computing (Games Development) - > notice the brackets? These make a bigger difference to the course content > than you'd think. > > I'm basically worried that I have wasted 2 years on a worthless > qualification. > > I'm looking for advice: > > Has anyone else felt the same way (about wasting time on a crap > qualification)? > Does anyone know a development studio willing to take on a determined, hard > working good all rounder? > Or should I take a year out to build up a portfolio of work, possibly a demo > that will help me get employed? > > Thanks all, > Andy. > > Actually, i'm kinda in the same boat, except i've had 3+ years in eBusiness/Java, which has about as much to do with games as mackerel. Personally, i'm looking back into all my Yaroze stuff and reevaluating everything, seeing what can be salvaged and what can't, now that i've got some free time on my hands (ie dole). I've also been tinkering a little bit with OpenGL and i'm impressed, in a way it's almost like the Yaroze but with finer grained control. That's probably of no help to you though, sorry. I'd like to know the same however. Anybody want to give us a job? :) Andy P