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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by missedthecue on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:44PM (#26278995)
Too true. The "teenager who likes to play a lot of video games and therefore enrolls in a compsci undergrad program" is an extremely common pipeline.

Not too many teens choose a career in programming because they want to build a robust framework that allows construction of large-scale analytical queries on unstructured data.

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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by merpnderp on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:20PM (#26279421)
Yeah, writing boring HR software pays a whole lot better than game programming because one brings you joy and the other makes you a nihilist.
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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by atombum on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:46PM (#26279664)
Based on what I've read about working in the games industry, joy is fleeting between ridiculous crunches, which seem to be nearly ubiquitous.
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Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty? by souprock on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:03AM (#26283259)
IMHO, neither is the most interesting work. There are some really interesting jobs writing software for machines with life-and-death consequences. Imagine knowing that your software is implanted in a human, or that we rely on it to prevent a huge pipeline from exploding.
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