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Re:Computer Software Engineer in list of least stressful car... by devinj on Saturday May 15, 2010 @10:48PM (#1351198)
It mentions game development. Game development has extremely low pay for the amount of stress it causes.

I mean, everybody wants to be a game developer. Any prospective developer is screwed by supply and demand and a broken development model that allows for insane crunch time.

Or have things changed?

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Re:Computer Software Engineer in list of least stressful car... by benologist on Saturday May 15, 2010 @10:55PM (#1351210)
In some senses it has ... it's a lot more viable to be an indie game developer and work from home now - flash, facebook, iphone, android etc ... all have readily achievable barriers for entry.
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Re:Computer Software Engineer in list of least stressful car... by teaspoon on Saturday May 15, 2010 @11:10PM (#1351233)
Does that not exacerbate the supply-demand problem?
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Re:Computer Software Engineer in list of least stressful car... by benologist on Saturday May 15, 2010 @11:14PM (#1351243)
There's pretty much infinite demand - those markets are enormous and diverse, iphones the smallest I mentioned with a mere 50m potential customers.

However it's very easy to make a game that doesn't stand out and doesn't make money.

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