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Layoffs and AI sour annual Game Developers Conference: ‘The vibe is rancid’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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The vibe has been rancid for a while, people just keep forgetting.
The large devs mass-hire, run everyone ragged, and mass lay them off. People forget because it's green faces every cycle, not yet burnt out. Too many people are willing to work as a game dev as it's their 'dream job', not looking into what actually happens. And when they get tired, a new crop of people are ready for their 'dream job'.
It's an incredibly oversaturated industry because of that.
Don't want to be shafted and taken advantaged over? Don't jump into industries that has 10:1 ratios or more between the number of people wanting those jobs and the number of jobs available, aka "dream jobs". Don't be a video games developer. Don't be an actor. Don't be a musician. Don't be an artist. Don't be a streamer or YouTuber.
If you manage to land good gigs with those, great, but don't be surprised when the bottom falls out all of a sudden because of some shift in the industry, like, I dunno, AI suddenly gets better at producing tools that make it easier to do your job.
What's a real dream job? The one where your employer treats you with respect because you're valuable and hard to replace.
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