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#1  Edited By foggel
@Video_Game_King: Never said it was a perfect plan:)
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TL;DR question: Anyone else looking for a job?  
 
I've just returned from China with a degree in marketing management. So after years of essentially drinking and the occasional reading, it hit me: Shit just got real.  
 

 Sorry, I had to. I'm a sucker for anything where the joke is in the use of words.
 Sorry, I had to. I'm a sucker for anything where the joke is in the use of words.
 I need to find a job. After two weeks of applying I've realized that most companies out there wouldn't recognize a talent if it sat on their face. I mean come on,  sometimes I think my resume makes me look over qualified: 
 
Job objective: Make enough money for a place to live, and some food until I have enough experience to get a better job with better pay. 
 
Skills: None that makes me stand out from the crowd, because I have no marketing experience except the shaping of my online dating profile, but I can't say that was a huge success, I'm still single and my life is miserable. 
 
Experience: Burger flipping. 
 
Education: Kind of relying on the fact that I studied in China. Is that interesting? No? Come on 我会说汉语
  
 Haha oh look, another freshly graduated idiot! We're so much better than him!
 Haha oh look, another freshly graduated idiot! We're so much better than him!
 But I'm starting to realize that I need to start somewhere really low. I do not have experience, I do not have any particular skills, but damnit I have potential. The job market in the video game industry is really tight, so there's NO WAY that I can start there. So here's my strategy: 
Hopefully I'll land an entry level job in advertisement selling. From there I'll network with people, and ofcourse gain an understanding on how advertisements are sold and so on. The hard part will be to prove my worth, so I need to practise my presentation skills. After a year or two I'm moving on to something somewhat bigger. I'll probably have to work as a seller a bit more before I can land the kind of job that is fun in marketing. To take part in decisions that affect how to shape the marketing to fit with the strategy of the company and reach the visions and so on. 
 
From there on out IT IS ON. Before you know it I'm managing in a respected marketing firm, and when there's an opening for a marketer in the video games industry then BAM.  
 
---Product manager 
------Senior product manager 
---------Associate General Manager 
------------General Manager 
---------------Director 
------------------C mother E fucking O

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 Look out Kotick. Enjoy it while it lasts.  
 
And now I am going to call a potential employer. Wish me luck. 
 
Also, I asked this in the beginning but are there others out there applying for jobs? Is it hard to find anything on your profession?
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#3  Edited By foggel

Maybe it'll end up like vinyl did. You can buy it in that format for a steep price if you're a collector.

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I recommend reading this thead: 
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/why-youre-not-going-to-work-in-the-game-industry/508396/ 
 
He studied 3D animations or something.
This is what a dude in the industry said to him:  “You have a degree in multimedia… That’s not what we’re after. You should have gotten a fine-arts degree if you wanted to be an artist or a CS degree if you wanted to be a programmer.” “We would much rather teach an artist how to use a computer then attempt to teach a computer nerd art skills.” 

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@TooWalrus said:
Unfortunately, I never had a PlayStation, so I missed out on a hell-of-a-lot. All I had was a N64 though, and I had some good times with it, so I'm gonna go with that.
I feel like I missed out on something too. Had a couple of friends that had Playstation though, so I have memories attached to it. But I voted for N64 as that was the one that I had. Zelda, Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Super Smash Bros, Wave Race...  There are a lot of good memories there as well.
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@Erzs: Sure, I understand why people liked it. I guess it's just that I prefer to stroll alongside the edges of a map and pick off people as I go, and that's not possible in Nuketown because of its constant chaos. 
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@foggel said:

I'm fairly sure they're working on a third game. It's a successful franchise, and they will definitely make money on it. The THREE Box. Including: Half Life 3 Portal 3 Team Fortress 3

also Dota 3 and Left 4 Dead 3

Launched alongside with Source 3 engine.
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Sticking to Modern Warfare if I want to play a FPS game online.  
 
I just wanted to add that I hated Nuketown. Just me?

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I'm fairly sure they're working on a third game. It's a successful franchise, and they will definitely make money on it.  
 
The THREE Box. Including: 
Half Life 3 
Portal 3 
Team Fortress 3 

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#10  Edited By foggel

The Big Lebowski is probably my favourite comedy. I'm not a big fan of comedy films, but I liked 21 Jump Street if I must mention a recent one.