Just as an example I used to work at the local compUsa as a lowley service writter part time. The job I had before that I made about 12$ an hour, the new job at comp was only 9$ an hour. A pretty hefty pay cut esp for a college student. But you know what? I had to put up with rude dumb customers day in and day out and i didn't care at all, didn't care if we had to stay 2 or 3 hours past my scheduled time off because i loved the job. The store closed when they got sold off and condensed down and so i had to find another job. I don't hate my current job but it's far better than working where I was, staples, after comp closed. Morale/point of the story? No one job in the industry pays very well simply put. You just have to find something you enjoy and do it. No real part of the job you do in the game industry will pay more than another and if they do as the article posted right off the bat stated will specifcally pay more really. And only wanted to prove a point on the pay versus job liking. Sometimes you get lucky and get a job that pays well and isn't one where you have to work with or be a jerk at.

Wow, when did I ever say money was a motive. Never. I said these were my reasons:

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Oh I see. Yes I love playing and critquing video games and I want to be an innovator in the game industry.

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If you would have read the ealier posts I stated that I am a gamer and aspiring to work in the game industry. I never said money was an incentive, I just wanted to the know the differences of salaries among different positions in game development.

My question was answered with the article that was posted in one of the earlier replies. I'm only being defensive because most of you are just repeating one another and thus prolonging the discussion of this thread which is going off topic.

It's not your job to care about whether or not the thread goes offtopic. If you've got what you wanted from it, stop coming back and replying. It will naturally die off.

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Oh I see. Yes I love playing and critquing video games and I want to be an innovator in the game industry.

Well to put it simply you may have to sacrifice the best paying job in the field to do this. Why? Becuase what you love to do may not be the best paying part of game desing. Also, you want to find something that is related to the field of game design you are good at becuase this in turn will help you find ways to innovate it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is look at what you are both good at and love, if your not good at it work at till you are just make sure you love it and an easy test is if you don't care what you make then you will love it.