Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
I used to be one of those "kids" you speak of, and while I'm 26 now I'm still a very passionate gamer and have wanted a way into the industry for many years. A few weeks ago I was offered a job with a testing lab in Canada to localize games to the Norwegian market, but I had to turn them down. I'm not quite sure what sort of salary I could expect in a position like that, but $10 Canadian per hour is in the region of "ridiculously low". Assuming a 40-hour work week I'd make roughly $16.000 Canadian per year. At the same time I was offered a job in Ireland as a CSR at the helpdesk of a big company that I accepted. I make 10,58 per hour here, making for 22.000 a year, nearly double the salary I'd get in Canada. And that again is still about 30% lower than what I'd make in a general office bitch job in Norway.
I'd still like to get into the gaming industry somehow, but if other QA positions pay as low as the job in Canada I think I'll stick to just playing the games.
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Oblig. Douglas Adams quote:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
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I want my cookie now, please.
I used to be one of those "kids" you speak of, and while I'm 26 now I'm still a very passionate gamer and have wanted a way into the industry for many years. A few weeks ago I was offered a job with a testing lab in Canada to localize games to the Norwegian market, but I had to turn them down. I'm not quite sure what sort of salary I could expect in a position like that, but $10 Canadian per hour is in the region of "ridiculously low". Assuming a 40-hour work week I'd make roughly $16.000 Canadian per year. At the same time I was offered a job in Ireland as a CSR at the helpdesk of a big company that I accepted. I make 10,58 per hour here, making for 22.000 a year, nearly double the salary I'd get in Canada. And that again is still about 30% lower than what I'd make in a general office bitch job in Norway.
I'd still like to get into the gaming industry somehow, but if other QA positions pay as low as the job in Canada I think I'll stick to just playing the games.