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darthdevidem01 on 12 February 2011
snakenobi said:
darthdevidem01 said:

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'

You sound very determined indeed.

I mean if this how your truly feel inside yourself (not just writing to us), if you can realistically think you can take action on what your telling me in that post you just made then I would say just go for your passion. At least from that post you seem to have a drive to succeed. And if you do go on a hunt for excellence and try to do the best, success should come to you.

The worst thing for you would be to become 35 and be depressed in the job your in which you get through MBA, by then its kinda too late to make a career move at such an age. So I would say just go for it, if you do and if you try as hard as you just said you would I hope you'll be successful in that. God forbid it doesn't work out so well, then at least you'll know you tried to chase after your dream, that regret of never trying to live your passion won't be there.

As cliched as some of the things in this post sound, sometimes cliches are so true.

Edit: And its nice to see your not influenced so much by your friends now, because only you know how you feel and only you know what you want. Everyone is different, some people are fine doing a boring job for lots of money, for others that is hell.



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Kasz216 on 12 February 2011

Hm.  Worst case sceanrio... it probably wouldn't matter anwyay.

Many MBA's don't have jobs... in general anyway... unless your really talented a half hearted approach won't help, unless you know somebody anyway.

If it was me... i'd want to see the degree through anyway since I already put all that time and money into it anyway, and a degree might help show that I can see things through.  The Degree it is though... probably wouldn't matter.