Did video games ever helped you to get a job?

>translator
What's your native language and how's the work ?

>spend all my free time playing pc games
>parents think i will be a programmer since i spend time with computer
>well whatever not like i have anything better to do
>actually become a web developer

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my friend had this comic hung up on a cork board at his house cause his parent thought it was funny. I have had three jobs related to video games, though all those jobs have been far less about playing them and much more knowing about them.

But Arin Hanson actually does this for a living.

JRPG menus led me to become a master of spreadsheets and spreadsheet design so yeah I guess they helped.

I-I feel sorry for you user ;_;

no but they're the reason i'm good at my job. i type fast and can multitask, which is 90% better than most of my coworkers. the fact that i can actually use excel and outlook makes everyone come to me for help.

seeing how the majority of people work in their office jobs really made me think how the fuck did us humans make it so far?

Hungarian. Still in the beginning phases (few months), but I've already got 2-3 recurring clients and they keep me occupied for most of the weeks. Pay is currently average-to-good, I just need to secure some juicier contracts along the way. CAT tools are a fucking godsend, I've had projects that I could autofill perfectly to 50% completion or more, thanks to translation memories.

>get into modding
>learn 3d
yeah

What you're seeing is the result, not the journey. Humanity getting as far as it did allowed this many people to get cozy office jobs where they spend 4 hours working and other 4 watching funny cat pictures.

because they're paid for other skills besides shitposting for 12 hours a day.

incidentally, shitposting helped me get good at my job too.

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>skills

yeah filling out spreadsheets and clicking numbers in SAP. What a hard job, really

So you do it as contract work then ? Do you use any website in particular ? I could try and do similar things for another language

i'm not saying it's hard work. i've been in both blue collar and white collar jobs. honestly, blue collar jobs are physically intense but you don't have to worry about shit fucking you over 6-12 months later in an audit. white collar jobs are just mentally stressful and everything you do is recorded.

but someone at the top is making money off of that, so i'm not complaining.

I don't have a job but I technically have a free ride through life because of video games and good genetics. A guy on Yea Forums fell in love with me and had me move in with him and I don't have to do anything at all, just because I'm a cute trap. I cook and clean occasionally if I feel like it, otherwise I play games all day.

Yeah, I basically just started a new small micro-company or whatever the equivalent may be for you. Unfortunately I can't recommend a website in particular, my initial client was just someone I knew from school who has been doing a larger translation business for several years now. My other clients were me just basically sending emails to various translation agencies across the country. They don't hire a lot of people, but they tend to be very open to contracting people.

your androgynous face and cute tummy and slender thighs and feminine penis can't last forever. eventually you'll realize you have acquired independent life skills.

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While that is true, he loves me for my personality as well. I'm working on getting /fit/ and he has offered to pay for me to go to college before so I might take him up on that.

I ll look into it, thanks and have a good day user

You too, good luck if you decide to try it out.

Or in my case, Yea Forums

This, went from a (in American grades) D to an A.

>he loves me for my personality as well

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>Get apprenticeship as in-house software tester
>Talking with one of the 30+-year-old testers
>They don't know what a CPU is

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>have job interview
>get asked what my hobbies were
>sperg out and start talking about Pokemon
>interviewer was a 30 year old boomer who thought it was cool as hell that I brought up Pokemon in a job interview

And now I sit at a desk all day and have weekends off. It is nice.

Yes. I'm a professional video game designer.

well to be fair you probably have a very vague idea how the cpu works as well

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This experience meme is a fucking pain in the ass. I was in college dumbass, how the hell am I going to have job experience? It's like they want you working for free.

No as in they didn't even know what the term refers to
Not even that it's part of a PC
I don't think they'd even heard of it

Forgot something else:
>Say I have a basic understanding of coding during interview (must have been better than the others' considering I got through, even if it was a group interview for 4 placements)
>Includes courses for learning coding
>Complete the material we have way earlier than supposed to because short and simple
>Keep teaching myself C# because it's better than Python and SQL is useless without access to a database
>Have made a Mastermind game, a program that tells you what Chinese zodiac you are, and a card dealer that remembers what cards you've already dealt and even displays a picture of said cards in-console
>Apprenticeship handler/reviewer completely bamboozled that I've already learnt all this
You have no idea how long it took to make that card display work holy shit

I learned english thanks to videogames. Now I work at IT as a project manager just because in our CIS country nobody can speak to a client as well as I do. I mostly shitpost all day.

It's not hard to understand transistors and combinational/sequential logic, though admittedly modern CPUs have a lot more bullshit layers of abstraction.

Yeah similar experience for me but with the witcher 3 and kotor 2 instead

Those comics are patrician. My dad had a big book of them when we lived overseas

>Tried Truck Simulator euro and usa
>Damn i want to drive those things irl
>2k euro later im driving trucks in central europe

Before the game only thng i tought of trucks were "damn fucking bisons on the road".

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Got my first job out of university by talking about TES lore with my interviewer.

>witcher 3
please tell me it wasn't the one about evil and lesser evil

Unironically i forklifted a lot before it as a starting job but i never played that.

Actually yes in a sense. I was gaming on PC since I was 10 or something like that and with that came all the PC system and internal fiddling for years to come (built my own rig from scratch when I was around 14). All that was a decent foundation for future experience from school and ended up granting me a spot as an IT support.

Long story short: PC Gaming indirectly got me my job in the end or so I believe at least.

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It's like they want you working for free.

That's exactly what they want and what they're looking for and you're a dumbass for not picking up on that.

I'm not saying that you were supposed to agree to that, mind you.

Worked as a security guard for an office at night. Despite being able to play,video games and not doing shit I hated it. Never got days off, working tripple shifts, firm and building managers where huge cunts. One of the tenants who worked nights heard me playing WoW and we became friends and got me a job in his company. Now I work in the office I used to "protect", get paid more and get 3 day weekends all cause I played Warcraft. I love my job too.

It helps in tech fields because its full of nerds already so you have interests in common. Some games also can help develops some skills such as resource management or people management skill if you were a guild leader.

I used to play League of Legends, and it made me so desensitized to toxicity that it made retail jobs easy as cake.

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The novel I’m working on was inspired by Dragon Quest IV.

Wiritng novels is a hobby not a job untill they actually start selling enough for you to live off by.

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Yes.

t. Porn artist

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>this was made as a joke
>those wages are peanuts compared to what big streamers make

Is that you Shad?

Cast us a spell Mr. porn wizard

You guys do know we don't need anymore Overwatch, DOA and Witcher porn, right?

The vast majority of streamers make nothing

>we don't need anymore Witcher porn

No, shut the fuck up.

Do you make a living or is it more like a hobby that pays sometimes?
I'm interested in getting into the porn art business myself.

well, im a game designer, so i guess?

actually yes
i used to play vidya a shit ton with a chinese kid who lived in my neighborhood when i as little until he moved away. chink had good taste too, we played nothing but pikmin 2 challenges.
fast foward 15 years and the person interviewing me, my boss, turns out to be his dad and he practically just gives me the job because apparently i was the only kid who hung out with his son
/blog

Do you already hate games or not yet? I have two friends in gamedev and they don't even play anything any more.

nah, i don't consider playing our game at work as playing a game. Don't think i could play a game in this genre ever again though

you can't just say that without showing us your work

Just give it time then, sooner or later you'll stop playing altogether.

arent web devs actually well paid tho?

I hope this is bait. Holy fuck dude. Have some self respect.

Do you work at a major studio? How bullshit cutthroat and harrassing is your company in comparison to the rest of the gaming industry?

>tfw never drew any of those
>tfw probably never will because nobody's gonna pay for what's already in abundance

Kinda in-between. Doing commissions, not getting really much from it yet but enough to survive and pay my bills. Would've been more profitable if I wasn't such a lazy cunt.

I just took a break from shitposting on /ic/ to escape all the "post your work" and here we go again, reeeeee.

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if you want money then start drawing furry porn

I worked in Nintendo customer service for a year but got fired and have been NEET ever since

i drove a forklift at work when i was 15 with no training
it's not exactly rocket science

That's kinda gay.

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what's the dumbest thing you've ever heard from a customer?

>it's not exactly rocket science
YES IT IS!

youtube.com/watch?v=9z77oztO6UQ

we'll see i guess, there are times i got weeks without playing something, but then i either get that itch or something good comes out and i destroy my sleep schedule
not a major studio, but not an indie, i'd say we're a solid AA company. i dont think we're evil/cutthroat

>not a major studio, but not an indie, i'd say we're a solid AA company. i dont think we're evil/cutthroat
I was more talking about the unpaid overtime and 60 hour weeks during crunch times

Also what's the genre of your game? Strategy/City builder-esque?

A bunch of stupid stuff, but probably the one where I was being screamed at by some mom that shes scared her idiot kid is going to break their 2ds because they think it can fold like the 3ds like it's somehow Nintendo's fault their kid is a retard (had to be escalated to the next higher up csr to handle)

Yes, I'm now a high class trans prostitute

shit thats a close guess, and nah we don't have much crunch, i've stayed back late a few nights but its a job, and i get comped for it.

the programmers can be insane about how much they work though, but they get comped too and they aren't forced to do late night crunches

I was a NEET after graduating from college. Glanced at a job ad asking if I played MMOs and thought it might have been a scam. Turned out not to be, and I got a job as a QA tester for a new MMO.

I got laid off after the game launched, but it was an amusing year until that point.

Nah, you get paid per work, and its not even THAT much, companies today dont want websites anymore , they all want mobile apps. But you can live, you know?

yeah, I noclipped through the wall into the building, stealthily crouch-crawled past a bunch of employees, stole a uniform and just started working there. no fucking interview, nothing bro.

God I fucking hate this shit
They're just kids playing videogames for fucks sake
Do you say to kids in the 50's
>hey is horseshoe tossing gonna get you a job
Or whatever the fuck the fuckers did 70 years ago

>companies today dont want websites anymore , they all want mobile apps.
Why have an expensive website when you can just get a instagramm/facebook/twitter page?

Yah okay sure u do
Ur probably a 300 pound neckbeard living in the basement ur dreams aren’t reality faggot

why did you get fired

Probably a timed contract or he yelled at a customer

I don't understand the point of this comic. Do they think kids do fuck all worth anything that will effect their careers? The only thing I can think of is Jamal playing basketball.

the difference is that hobbies in the past were generally constructive, if you start woodworking for example you can at least make something, maybe sell crafts at a flea market or decorate your house or do whatever, it's just overall a skill and something interesting/worthwhile. a 21st century kiddo plays video games for his hobby, what does he have to show for it? fucking burned out dopamine receptors lmao, that's about it. video games are basically just drugs, not a hobby.

What a pathetic end

I installed some cute games for a little girl and the parents praised me, so that, they also helped me bond with my sister but that isn't job related

Video games are art.

I don't work a very good job, but I don't think that has anything to do with videogames.

How to earn comfy 9-5? I even have a degree, too.

Can't say shit about console games but at a certain point you kinda have to learn a few IT things when you play PC games, so there is a skill right there.

The whole "Job experience" is really a burger meme tho. Real countries offer some form of aprenticeships, so that young people fresh from high school can actually LEARN a trade

Gay

well I used to work as a field technician for a former government institution. So I basically did nothing all day and I had a considerable amount of freedom during my job

What are some unsolvable puzzles in videogames?

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My country doesn't offer than wtf

The end of I have no outh and I must scream. It is literally impossible without playing through the ENTIRE GAME with a guide, so you can make the "right" decisions

How do your people learn to do a proper job at work then?

I actually checked government jobs in my area, and it's 90% for internal employees or military. Shit sucks, I've tried interviewing with market research firms or survey companies, and they all pass me up for people fresh out of school with 0 experience, and I'm only 25.

Helped me learn English and Japanese, and I work in tourism.

Check out IT jobs, especially those field technician jobs. 90% of people don't know what you actually do, so you can get away with a lot. The only problems are that customers can be REALLY retarded

Will do user, thanks. Just looking to build experience, go back to school, and find a 70k job so I can have a kid.

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Do you like it? I always imagined it as a comft but dull job. Also kind of lonely.