Quote:Original post by sitdownson
Quote:Original post by Antheus
Quote:I hear it is extremely boring and thats just not really what I want to do
Do you know what accountants do?
Do audits on companies and make sure all their transactions and financial stuff is in order... Or forensic accounting is investigating fraud and stuff like that.
Close. :-)
Any job can be fun or boring based on lots of factors.
What is the field? Accounting for a large bank will be different than a CPA doing government tax forms. A fraud investigator will have a very different job than a tax auditor.
Even within the small business bookkeeper accounting, working for a small doctor's office is going to be a very different job than an accountant for a small gym, or an accountant for a small construction company, or an accountant at a game company.
In each case the job of processing numbers is similar, but the job itself will be radically different.
The people you work with, the values of the group, the work conditions and dress codes, the salary levels, and many other factors will vary dramatically.
The same is true with programming. Programming at a small game studio is very different than at a large studio. Working in games is very different from working in business database software or business analysis software or military software or web development or rocket launching software or kitchen appliances software.
All of them write code, but the people, values, working conditions, dress codes, salary, and other factors are dramatically different.
Perhaps a better question is to figure out what you are passionate about. What is your own mission in life, and what do you want from it?
What fields interest you? What holds your interest? What can you bring yourself to complete, even after you have lost interest? What kind of people do you want to work with? What abilities and aptitudes do you have that you want to use in your career?
If you can't come up with answers, one excellent book is "What Color Is Your Parachute". Your library will have several copies, and the book is a must-read for many reasons. For now, skip to the end of the book. One appendix chapter is about finding your personal mission, another other is the flower diagram. Work through both.
People have left game development for lots of reasons. One former co-worker left to return to school for a music education career. Another co-worker left to start a flower shop. I have read about many others, one guy started an exotic vehicle rental company. Discovering that your passions are elsewhere is a very common event.
There is even a "mid-life crisis" where many people discover they need to re-evaluate their passions.
You are just beginning your college education. It won't hurt to finish your current semester as is. Find some mature folks who went through a mid-life crisis and are open to discussion; They can be an invaluable asset to help figure out what you actually want out of life.