My main issues are living in a country (Hungary), where a college degree would be almost mandatory for any dev jobs (mainly due to HR being dumb), also I’m disabled so my only job opportunity is a crappy government program one that pays half the minimum wage for full-time employment (!!!), but this is the only no-12 hour shift and no-6AM starting option (most of which are also like 60+km from me, which means I would have to wake up even earlier, which isn’t good for my health at all). however, not only a pay is very low, but also the 7AM starting is beginning to be way too much for my health. I’m already on sleeping pills to try to make myself fall asleep before midnight (almost impossible), and I also don’t have the money to get my meds changed to something better at a private doctor. Of course no disability benefits, because “I’m not disabled enough”, and otherwise I would just spend it on luxury cars (a common pre-2010 myth in Hungary was that disabled people could buy brand new Mercedeses).

I primarily have experience with game development (mainly from open source stuff), but without a long list of corporate experience, I have an even harder chance. I could work at other places too (I have some audio development experiences too), but would like to stay far away from web development.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 months ago

    depends on where you’re located. here in Seattle we have IGDA Seattle and Seattle Indies putting on events every week.

    • frog 🐸
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      26 months ago

      I’m in south west UK, unfortunately, so Seattle is a bit far to go. I’m right in the middle of a geographic area with four universities running game design degree courses, two of which are in a city with a few indie studios operating. (Sadly the biggest studio in the area was shut down by its parent company last summer - lots of alumni from my university lost their jobs.) So I’m genuinely not sure if there are no events happening, or I’m just not searching properly!