In another article, we described many educational opportunities that lay hidden in gambling. This time, we're going to introduce a couple of employment opportunities as well.
1. Being a Video Game Clerk. Working at game store or rental place - either permanently or temporarily - must be a teen gamer's dream. In a single place, employees have access to the first games and game systems hot off of the market and they're privy to peek inside magazines hot off of the press before anyone else. If that wasn't enough, gaming clerks obtain a discount on what would otherwise be too expensive (games, game systems, and game accessories) to think about buying. Sweet!
2. Being a Game Tester. Before a casino game hits the market, it has to go through extensive testing and if you believe the programmers behind the game test their own material, reconsider. The gaming industry is extremely sensitive in what it puts out into the public. In order to remain competitive, it must make absolutely sure that the games it produces work as intended. This is where testers go into the picture. But it isn't easy to become game tester. Becoming a game tester requires a little inside help but when you're in there, you'll not have only access to games that nobody else knows about, you'll also have an chance to shape the game into an experience that you and your comrades prefer.
3. Working as a Game Designer. Do you have good artistic skills? Can you whip out a character faster than you can say, "I drew that"? If so, you could be able to get a career designing video games. Today's video games exude many of the most beautiful graphics ever seen and if you have a good imagination, will use some of the most advanced graphics software packages available, and can follow instructions, you could see your own artwork within the next popular video game.
4. Being employed as a Game Critic. The gaming marketplace is always looking for good content and when you have a flair for writing coupled with a love for games, you could write for game magazines like Game Informer or you will write content for a highly popular gaming website.
5. Working as a Game Programmer. Not a career for everybody, a good game programmer is definitely in demand. As player preferences change and new technology is developed, someone with all the right programming skills has to be there to fill the space between what players want, and what are the gaming industry can supply. Being a game programmer requires extensive lessons in several different development languages - so if you don't have a clue as to what we just said, skip this profession and appear into some of the others.
The truly amazing news about all of this would be that the gaming industry shows no symbol of disappearing any time soon. Even colleges are becoming in on the gaming craze while they fill their course books with game programming classes and game design curriculum. There is always an opportunity for you to blend your love for games with a steady paycheck as long as you remain dedicated to looking for these opportunities, and you also make an effort to stay abreast of what's happening within the gaming world.
Check the employment section of your local paper for more, or visit the nearest college to find out what classes and training can be found.
1. Being a Video Game Clerk. Working at game store or rental place - either permanently or temporarily - must be a teen gamer's dream. In a single place, employees have access to the first games and game systems hot off of the market and they're privy to peek inside magazines hot off of the press before anyone else. If that wasn't enough, gaming clerks obtain a discount on what would otherwise be too expensive (games, game systems, and game accessories) to think about buying. Sweet!
2. Being a Game Tester. Before a casino game hits the market, it has to go through extensive testing and if you believe the programmers behind the game test their own material, reconsider. The gaming industry is extremely sensitive in what it puts out into the public. In order to remain competitive, it must make absolutely sure that the games it produces work as intended. This is where testers go into the picture. But it isn't easy to become game tester. Becoming a game tester requires a little inside help but when you're in there, you'll not have only access to games that nobody else knows about, you'll also have an chance to shape the game into an experience that you and your comrades prefer.
3. Working as a Game Designer. Do you have good artistic skills? Can you whip out a character faster than you can say, "I drew that"? If so, you could be able to get a career designing video games. Today's video games exude many of the most beautiful graphics ever seen and if you have a good imagination, will use some of the most advanced graphics software packages available, and can follow instructions, you could see your own artwork within the next popular video game.
4. Being employed as a Game Critic. The gaming marketplace is always looking for good content and when you have a flair for writing coupled with a love for games, you could write for game magazines like Game Informer or you will write content for a highly popular gaming website.
5. Working as a Game Programmer. Not a career for everybody, a good game programmer is definitely in demand. As player preferences change and new technology is developed, someone with all the right programming skills has to be there to fill the space between what players want, and what are the gaming industry can supply. Being a game programmer requires extensive lessons in several different development languages - so if you don't have a clue as to what we just said, skip this profession and appear into some of the others.
The truly amazing news about all of this would be that the gaming industry shows no symbol of disappearing any time soon. Even colleges are becoming in on the gaming craze while they fill their course books with game programming classes and game design curriculum. There is always an opportunity for you to blend your love for games with a steady paycheck as long as you remain dedicated to looking for these opportunities, and you also make an effort to stay abreast of what's happening within the gaming world.
Check the employment section of your local paper for more, or visit the nearest college to find out what classes and training can be found.
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