Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath
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From line cooks to bike repairs, people who used to be video game developers are being forced to try something new
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Guy I know worked for a pretty big video game studio or two. (You’ve definitely heard of some games he worked on). Then he realized it sucked. Took a job in FinTech, made like double the money for half the work.

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When I was leaving college a quarter of a century ago I briefly considered going into game dev…even back then everyone said it was low paid and gruelling work, so I passed.

It’s shocking that people still go into it.

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