Gaming jobs?

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Does anyone on here have any experience with jobs in the video games industry? I'm just curious to see if it would actually be worthwhile, and how difficult they are to obtain.

Since I'm not going back to college (no matter what anybody says to try and persuade me to go), the pressure is incoming from people around me, to get a job. Also I'm wondering if a job in the gaming industry would require a ridiculous amount of qualifications and 20 years of university to get. If so... well, so long world...

I hate to boast, seriously I do, but I have an amazing imagination which could contribute massively to the gaming industry. But I guess, in the real world, that doesn't matter. It's all about the irrelevant past education to "prove" something.

I was trying to get employed in the industry for a while. It's pretty difficult if you want to work for a normal company, because jobs are really centralized in a few locations(California, Japan) and a lot of people want in to the industry. If you do something more on your own or as a part of a small group it's more likely.

Maybe we should start a company. >_<

Creativity means nothing. Doing what your boss tells you is everything. Efficiency is simply not the name of the game. If it was, profits would suffer. So guys like you get screwed...oh well. That's what business is, screwing as many people as possible. Sort of like prostitution.

OP, have you tried being a games tester?

I went to school to be a game programmer. Decided to do a less stressful type of programming instead after graduation. It is a very stressful industry and unless you join one of the large companies, there is very little job security.

Did you mean stictly coding, or could you imagine yourself as part of a writing or design team? That's where the imagination could come in handy.

But yeah, you'll struggle to get any job without formal qualifications.

I read that that job really sucks, and it makes sense. You play an unfinished game to find the bugs and errors, then repeat and repeat nonstop.