Holy SHIT, this is wrong.dandymcgee wrote:Agreed. Arce knows first-hand, but I think this deserves being pointed out twice. Personally, I would much rather work a government position than at a game studio, even if the game studio sounds like more "fun" from the start. IMHO, government benefits greatly outweigh any "fun" to be had at said game studio.Arce wrote:You've been misinformed. ;pI can always try NASA and program rovers and stuff for them, but I heard government jobs pay crap.
You'll probably make shit pay and long hours working for a "game developer." The opposite can be said for a government job--you won't do shit, make a ton of money...And have every second of it.
Government jobs make WAAAAAY the fuck more money, have way the fuck better security, and way the fuck better benefits than any game development studio you will work with. I was a government coop student for almost two years. I still have my secret security clearance to this day if I ever decided to return to it.
For me the problem was that they are all a bunch of unpassionate, unmotivated, undriven people working with technology that is older than I am. I need stimulation and challenge.
I am seriously considering working for JPL over game development. But from what I have been working with robots are they are different from computers, unlike monitors, the actions done by robots are "slow". I have to limit my use of for loops and stuff like that when I want to move motors or something because in real life, the motor is not as fast as the processor so its kinda funky the way I program robots.
Damn, eh, thats why I got college to learn how to work with those, but isn't computer engineering geared more toward robotics than computer science?
