Quote:Original post by DanKennard
It sounds to me like you are much more interested in film making. Personally,I would study film, and then try and find someone else to program for you/your team.

In retrospect, that is the way I wish I had have done it. I spent many years learning to program well, and worked hard on my computer studies, graduating top of my class. But I very much wish I had have studied film instead.

I always wanted to make very cinematic games, but when it came to actually knuckling down and doing the work, I would tire of the programming quickly. I found that I would be far more interested in writing story ideas and developing scenarios. As a result, I began to program less, and less, and less. In fact, I've hardly written any code in the last 18 months or more.

How about getting involved in some machinima, and modding/scripting and see how you get on with that? Not everyone can program, and embarking on such a course simply may not be your kind of thing. At least doing some modding work may give you an idea of what it entails.

Yes good idea. I find it incredulous that there are way too many people that blindly start studying for a 4 years for a degree in something they have never seen anyone do any daily work in so they have no idea whether they will be able to do it day after day for several years or more.
Reminds me of an interview I just read on the famous pornstar Tera Patrick. I had heard that she had a nursing degree or something and she confirmed it in an interview and they asked her why she didn't stick with that since it's a pretty good paying job and she did go to school 4 years for it and she basically said that when she actually started working in it after college she found it boring!
It's like WTF?
"2NR: It's pretty much known that you went to nursing school, but what made you move away from nursing?

TP: Um, money. I was a model when I was a teenager so I knew what it was like to be in front of the camera. Then I got the job and got bored. I didn't think that I was going to be a pornstar and make a lot of money. I wanted something different in my life I just wanted to be back in entertainment.
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I tend to think it's not always that black and white though and that a lot of people are actually pressured by family or friends to pursue what they think they should and not what the person really wants.