Some information for you, if you haven't made your decision yet. I worked for 3 years at a AAA studio and shipped 6+ titles. By the time I left, I was making 33K ... as QA ... *edit* guess I was too late. Best of luck on your career endeavours, friend.
It's $10/hour, which comes out to 20k annually for a 40 hour work week, though it is a temporary job that would only last 6 months, 8 or 9 at most. I am still trying to discuss it with them, so I will let you guys no what happens. Thanks for the help.
I lived on just under 20k for my first year at my day job Im at now (unfortunately not game related). Its doable. But hard. You need housemates versus living in an apartment. You have to not own a car and rely on public transportation (which seems impossible in Austin). Paying back debt though on top of that? No way. This…
20k is what I was making at Starbucks 3 years ago. 22k is minimum wage in Austin. Getting into an industry isn't worth selling your soul or piece of mind for. Ask them politely for something reasonable for the skill level of the work you will be doing. You never know. It may be part of the personality side of the equation…
The company doing this should be ashamed of themselves. They've got/had a number of contract positions (legitimate art positions mind you) open for 10/hr with no relocation. When I saw them all I could think was "wow, who do they really expect to even be ABLE to accept this?" Unless you're a local student living at home a…
I was trying to avoid listing the name of the company because I didn't want to cause any problems. When I applied for the position it was listed as a temp artist job. Even in the interview and in the discussion I had after getting the offer, they always referred to it as if it were a contract artist position. It may have…