I quit gamedevelopment

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

I average around 45 hours a week, it doesn\'t bother me. But 50 hours is abit extreme, when your not getting paid for it, it does make it a lot worse.  You\'d find if u were getting paid for it, it would make a big difference in your decision.
I do agree with you though knotter, to extend your interm after you were the only one to complete it was just bull-fucken-shit.

Don\'t listen to LIC, he\'s a lot like mm. Seems to think the entire world doesn\'t think shit through.

I was working 70hrs per week at my past job. And sometimes I hated it but I loved the check. I hated my job though but the hours where not that bad once I saw the pay check.

50hrs is a lot of hours to work someone who is not getting paid. Anything over 20 is just horrible. I mean how do they expect you to make a living working you that many hours unpaid?

[MPTheory]

Thats kind of my point. I can understand a 20 hr week for interns, but working them even 40 hours doesn\'t seem right to me. Regardless of what "the industry" is like, not everyone has the luxury of giving up 50 hours a week for free. Even if it is great experience. The whole esscence of an internship is to give the intern great, real life, experience at a company by allowing them to work for free or in somce cases they actually pay them. We have interns come in at our place every now and then. We usually pay our interns. As long as they treat it like a job. (which they usually do)

Many companies are just run by azzholes that love to take advantage of interns with promises of full-time employment.  The summer internship I had was the same way.  Except 4 months, 20-30 per week.  I was hoping they\'d consider hiring me (especially since they\'re ad said so) but the boss was French, so I knew I was doomed.

Overall it was a positive experience.  I learned a ton, both about web design and about the rat race.  But one internship is enough.

Glad you made out ok Knotter and I think you made the right decision as well.  We\'re both back at square 1

Working an internship for free is definitely a raw deal.

I wanted to be a game programmer back in highschool til I started taking classes that way. I discovered real quick that the day-to-day was definitely not for me. That\'s when I decided to pursue writing about games. The finished products are a lot more fun than the work that goes in to them, at least as far as I\'m concerned.

Heh, for what it\'s worth though, I barely get paid for the stuff I write too.

-Dan

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Either way - I wasn\'t trying to be harsh. Just saying, that if you can\'t pull the long hours you are not made for the industry.

oh , sorry.

I am able to do 50 hour workweeks. It\'s the 54\'s to 56\'s which are the killers becuz they stretch that workday until 22:00 pm.

Yes, I had and still have ambition. But at 27 one realises that one can also enjoy every offtime moment before 30 a bit more preciously (having a social life, quality time with aging family etc. Things which imho alot of ppl underestimate in value).

For whizzkids at 20... this kind of industry might indeed be a good substitute for the academies they didn\'t got admitted at.  At 20, most ppl still have that vast unbound amount of energy. Yeah.. I\'m starting to feel the age difference.

To all ambitious ppl here ; Great to see you have it too, but never let it eat you up so much until all there\'s left of you us nothing but ambition.

[Jumpman]

did u ever jerk it to hawt 3D model chicks?

[Titan]

Originally posted by Jumpman
did u ever jerk it to hawt 3D model chicks?

What\'s wrong with that? :op:

Originally posted by Jumpman
did u ever jerk it to hawt 3D model chicks?

No, if you ever find yourself doing that, that\'ll be as low as you can go.

lol, 50 hour work weeks

[Jumpman]

without pay

What\'s your incentive to filth up normal threads ? :rolleyes:

[Living-In-Clip]

Because we all know you did.

Originally posted by Jumpman
without pay

Touché!

[Jumpman]

Originally posted by Knotter8
What\'s your incentive to filth up normal threads ? :rolleyes:

See, the place where I come from is a small town. They think so small, they use small words. But not me Knotty. I\'m smarter than that. Nah nah nah nah BIG TIME.