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Become a Professional Gamer
introverted writes "An article in the Wall Street Journal covers events in South Korea, where, even more so than the U.S., there are increasingly highly paid professional teams competing in games such as Blizzard's StarCraft. The article notes: 'Last year, [pro StarCraft gamer] Lim Yo-Hwan made about $300,000 from player fees and commercials. Another top earner, Hung Jin-Ho, whose fingers are insured for $60,000, recently signed a three-year deal with telecom provider KTF Co. that will pay him $480,000 altogether.' So now you can claim your time gaming as 'job skills training'!"
I never knew how popular it was up until now, maybe I should pull it back out of the dark recesses and work my way into the ranks again. Dell schedule allowing....
LOL OEWND
GNAA SUCCEED IT
Arrg this always pisses me off. Stupid self-appointed "engineers" of software.
Chances are if you're a computer programmer you're not a software developer nor a software engineer.
It's like saying "I'm a brick setter and professional engineer" [on the same job]. Doesn't happen. The people who design buildings usually don't do the grunt work.
Similarly most people who code-monkey [re: write bloated VB apps for crappy hardware/utilities] are not real software developers and not engineers in any sense of the word.
Not that I want to enter the "can software really be engineered" [I think it can]. I just hate lame-ass VB code monkey wanker losers thinking they're respectable developers because they can script out poorly working programs that don't adhere to standards [for messages, interface, etc...] and generally cause more problems then they solve.
Feel my wrath for I am an angry fat man.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.