Hi, let me give you a bit of a backstory on me necessary to complete the question.

I am currently 15 yrs old and going into gr11 next year.

I have two plans. Plan A and Plan B, though Plan B is NOT there for failure, it's kinda like a 50%/50% kind of thing.

Anyway, here are my two life plans.

Plan A:
- Go to college for auto engineering and diesel
- Become something in automotives (I LOVE automotives)
- Get a house and etc.
- Live the usual life everyone else on land lives and work in automotives

Plan B:
- Go to college for diesel mechanics (1 or 2 yr college cert.)
- Spend the summer crewing for live-a-board cruising yachts to gain experience.
- Go to college for some kind of diploma/cert./adv diploma/degree in a vid-game related college course
- Purchase a sailing yacht
- Cruise the world, working from the boat in the gaming industry

Those are my two life plans; which I will go to will depend solely on the summer after my college diesel course. If I like crewing on a sailing yacht, then I'll take B, if not, then A.

Though I still need to know, I have two questions.

What kind of jobs in the gaming industry can I do working solely from home? (or well. Boat.)

What kind of college education will I need to get into it? (How many years of study? What area of study?)

Keep in mind, the job MUST be able to be done solely from home with Wi-Fi.

Thanks for ANY help!

[quote name='Sebastian Soeiro' timestamp='1340573154' post='4952438']
What kind of jobs in the gaming industry can I do working solely from home? (or well. Boat.)

Realistically? It'd be an absolute miracle if you ever found a job in the gaming industry that let you work from home every day. The only way I know of that you can maybe do that is if you work for yourself making indie games (but if you do that, you should plan on being poor).

I don't really want to get into indie...

What kind of college education will I need to get into it? (How many years of study? What area of study?)

A bachelor's degree (4 years) in computer science is enough to get into the gaming industry as a programmer. Eventually getting a masters (2 more years) wouldn't be a bad idea though.

I don't really have a lot of money. 4 Years would be my limit. Also, I don't need to get into programming, I'd take any job, even if it's just being a Game Master for some MMO, I'm totally fine with that. I don't need wages to be a lot, I just need them to be above minimum (doesn't even need to be a lot above minimum.)
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[quote name='Cornstalks' timestamp='1340574195' post='4952443']
A bachelor's degree (4 years) in computer science is enough to get into the gaming industry as a programmer. Eventually getting a masters (2 more years) wouldn't be a bad idea though.

Did Sebastian say he wanted to be a programmer?

Sebastian, please read this forum's FAQ. Back out to the forum main page, and look for the FAQ link at upper right.
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I did read some of them, but I didn't exactly see a "these jobs are most likely to be work-at-home jobs", so I don't know exactly what I'm looking into. That's why I'm asking which jobs would possibly be availible to be work at home. Thanks!

[quote name='Sebastian Soeiro' timestamp='1340588888' post='4952506']
I did read some of them, but I didn't exactly see a "these jobs are most likely to be work-at-home jobs", so I don't know exactly what I'm looking into. That's why I'm asking which jobs would possibly be availible to be work at home. Thanks!

NONE of them are work-at-home jobs. FAQs 24 and 27 say that, and a couple others do also.
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Even just being a Game Master/Moderator for a MMO? I thought most of the folk who did those jobs were work at homes.

[quote name='Sebastian Soeiro' timestamp='1340594422' post='4952532']
Even just being a Game Master/Moderator for a MMO? I thought most of the folk who did those jobs were work at homes.

I would like to hear more about that job, how much they're paid, how they found the job, how long they had to do the job without pay, stuff like that. I haven't seen that job listed in the industry salary survey yet...
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It isn't exactly a new job... You apply like you would any other job ; http://www.aeriagames.com/jobs
They basically look over the community of the MMO and help out with any issues... Kind of like a Customer Service and Community Steward...