So my Second year of graduation in Commerce is coming to an end,i will soon have to apply in Business schools for an MBA after it.

But i don't like Business,i had to go into it cause i didn't do well in High School as computer science needed high scores which i didn't get.

So now i have a decision to make,whether i start preparing for an MBA or Animation courses(and other things related to animation and game designing).

So help me VGC.

Sometimes i think that i should just leave what i am doing and get onto what i love which is animation and gaming related but then when i look at poor and struggling people i go back to the usual.

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I think you should go for animation if you really like it. It doesn't actually matter which career you choose, but being actually good at it is what counts. That's my humble opinion.

Why are you graduating for two years? :-p

Just a bit of advice-- there are two things you should realize about the gaming industry:

1. It's incredibly competetive

2. People get burned out.  A lot.

If you aren't amazing, don't expect to get hired at Blizzard, Naughty Dog, Bungie, or any other studio you've dreamed of.  If you aren't good, don't expect to get hired at even a lesser studio.  If you don't have an impressive portfolio don't even expect to get a reply from the worst of studios.  Getting your foot in the door is incredibly difficult and if you can't make yourself look more awesome than everyone else, well, good luck.  You're competing with thousands of people that have the same dream of you and many of those people will have experience through school, personal, or professional.  You have to have a way to make yourself stand out.

I'm not saying it's hopeless, just be prepared because a simple degree in animation won't get you far at all.

Next off is burn out rate.  No matter how much you love gaming, there's the chance you will get burned out.  It happens to a lot of people, even the most dedicated (actually, it's generally the most dedicated that get burned out).  I know it sucks to think you could ever get burned out on such an incredible job, but make sure you have a back up plan.  If you do animation and that is all you've been trained to do and you burn out, you're screwed.

Did you ever do any animation before? cause it's sounds great but you have to be very patient and very creative to be good at it so you have a chance out there.. I did some animation before but I don't have the patient to work hours and hour and then waiting for renders hours and hours.. and hours..

i have animated before but nothing big.

i am very patient though

what animation have you done,can you tell me more about it and what you are doing now.

i am not graduating after 2 years,but in my third year i will have to start thinking what i will do after exams.

everybody knows its tough but i don't just want to be working all my life justt for money and not be interested in what i'm doing.

commerce is full of shit,very boring.

I'm definitely not qualified enough to speak about any of this.

But I will say what I feel.

I cannot for the life of me ever even imagine doing a job day in and day out for just the money without being interested in what I do. What do we do for most of the hour while we are awake for most of our lives...our job/work (unless you retire early or are the son of a multi zillionaire).

So if we do our job for most of our conscious time, it damn better be something I at least partially enjoy, at the worst I at the least shouldn't find it boring. But in the world we live in, money is important too, so it must be good paid too. Thats why I decided to do Medicine because I know I would really enjoy being a doctor from work experience, I love the interaction with people and the focus on research that you can have at the big city teaching hospitals and the pay while not the best is still quite good and its a safe job.

But Snakekenobi if you definitely think you can't enjoy a job which uses the skills you learn through your Bcom and MBA studies then I don't think you should go on that route. Twesterm said the games industry is competitive but is Business far less competitive?  Especially in this economical climate?

My uncle (who's a successful businessman) told me that to be very successful in Business you need to either graduate with a degree from Oxbridge,. Ivy league US universities, or the best business schools in whichever country you are in or you need to have lots of raw talent and a cut throat personality to succeed (now this isn't there in many people...luck is also important here). Lots of the big businesses have campus interviews for people from those top universities. People in between with not enough motivation earn okay pay, but never go beyond that bracket. Of course there will be exceptions to this rule, but they are only exceptions.

I know nothing about the games industry so won't comment about that. I hope this doesn't sound rude but how talented are you at animation? If you had to judge any piece of work you had done how would you feel it was?

Overall I am not in a position to reccomend either thing to you as I am too young to understand the more deeper positives and negatives of either part . 

nah nothing can really offend me from you or anybody else related to gaming

i am a visionary and am a very passionate guy and go crazy about the things i love.

its just that my surrounding and friends are a bad influence,atleast i think that way

nobody is really interested in anything,they think about studying and working and being succesfull and money even if they don't like it.

and i have been kind of influenced by now by them till now and left computers and animation in school and first year college.Parties and girls were what i was into just like them.

but i really have reached my limits.

really don't care what anybody does and tells me to do.

i want to do what i like or die trying,success or failure don't effect me as long as i love and i keep trying.

and i can just spend countless hours doing what i love.

if anybody judges my work,i take every point and detail and am very much beind perfection and detailed

and i wasn't asking this question cause i don't feel competitive,i can really blow the hell out of people when i get my mind to it.its just that,i don't like it.

yeah money is important but for its like this,life is about what you want and like not about just being

'oh,what if i wasn't succesfull at this and just to be succesfull,i would do something else'