I spent the first twelve years of my career working in both the Class II and Class III gaming industries, we don't call it gambling.:) I'm primarily a systems administrator and recently decided to find a job outside of the gaming industry. I had expected to find that employers may be concerned about my past employment. On the contrary, most of the employers I interviewed with seemed to be curious about the industry and many of them thought that my experiences from that industry could be an asset.
The gaming biz is very fast paced, requires real-time systems, requires massive networks, requires high-speed communication, requires complex databases, extensive code-review, requires extensive documentation and may requires extensive background investigations (for certain positions). There's a lot to learn in the business and it's a great place to cut your teeth, it's also very broad regarding the types of development that're needed and you could find just about any type of development position you'd want.
Just like any industry, there are both good and bad things about the gaming biz but I've enjoyed my time in the business and may go back to it someday and I'd definitely recommend it to others.
Also, I know few developers in Vancouver that were in the biz for a couple of years and they had no trouble with transitions to other industries.
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I spent the first twelve years of my career working in both the Class II and Class III gaming industries, we don't call it gambling. :)
I'm primarily a systems administrator and recently decided to find a job outside of the gaming industry. I had expected to find that employers may be concerned about my past employment. On the contrary, most of the employers I interviewed with seemed to be curious about the industry and many of them thought that my experiences from that industry could be an asset.
The gaming biz is very fast paced, requires real-time systems, requires massive networks, requires high-speed communication, requires complex databases, extensive code-review, requires extensive documentation and may requires extensive background investigations (for certain positions). There's a lot to learn in the business and it's a great place to cut your teeth, it's also very broad regarding the types of development that're needed and you could find just about any type of development position you'd want.
Just like any industry, there are both good and bad things about the gaming biz but I've enjoyed my time in the business and may go back to it someday and I'd definitely recommend it to others.
Also, I know few developers in Vancouver that were in the biz for a couple of years and they had no trouble with transitions to other industries.
-tharant
Try The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics
Excerpts from Einstein, Feynman, Schwinger, Hawking, Turing, von Neumann, etc.
-tharant
Um, actually I just did that about a week ago.
We had an NT4 box sitting in the basement of a building in Boston (I'm from OK). Using VNC over our WAN I upgraded it to Win2k.
Worked perfectly.