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Original post by wolf767 i have been offered a study progam that guarentees me a job that ears £120,000 a year

What study program offers a guaranteed £120,000 a year job, and where do I sign up?

Sadly you will be hard pressed to find work. One of the best options for getting into the industry with no experience tends to be in QA departments. However they generally require you to be old enough to sign a legally binding contract on your own. As far as I know, you can't sign an NDA when you are under 18.


Your best bet is to keep playing with programming, make your own little games in your spare time, and take some random jobs for money. Don't forget to do lots of community service, volunteer work.

well i thought i would get a reply like that well first of all £120k a year study program its one of the hardest programs to get into its in sweden i know that best graduate who came out of it and he can get me a place but sadly its not my pasion my parents thinks games are absooltly stupid but i like the concept of creating a world thosands of people will enjoy fow hours and i love it so far dose anybody know the best collages i can go to dont care where they are can be anywere in the world just so i can have a look at what its like pro style and be able to get into a good uni that can garantee me a good role in future game?

thank you for your time and quick replys

edit:oh almost forgot thank you talroth +rep/rating

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Original post by wolf767 well i thought i would get a reply like that well first of all £120k a year study program its one of the hardest programs to get into its in sweden i know that best graduate who came out of it and he can get me a place

Seriously, if you filled out your application form with spelling and grammar like this I would have to wait a while to file it under "B" because I'd be too busy laughing. Rudeness aside, it was difficult for me to fully understand on the first pass what you were trying to say.

£120k? Where do I sign up, and how come I haven't heard of it? I know someone who earned £120k before he retired recently - he only had that salary in the last five years of his career and he had been at the same company for ~35 years having joined straight out of University sometime in the early 1970s, which may put things into perspective for you.

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but sadly its not my pasion my parents thinks games are absooltly stupid but i like the concept of creating a world thosands of people will enjoy fow hours and i love it so far

Good starting point; even if it gets you nowhere, you can still enjoy it on your own time and possibly develop it into a fully-fledged concept, idea and prototype later.

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dose anybody know the best collages i can go to dont care where they are can be anywere in the world just so i can have a look at what its like pro style and be able to get into a good uni that can garantee me a good role in future game?

You mean game development courses at University? There's quite a few in the UK, most notably Teesside University and Abertay University in Dundee (which is not the same as the standard Dundee University in case you're confused).

I'll go with Talroth and fill your time with other things right now. Do voluntary work and other jobs, focus on your education and keep the games stuff ticking over in your spare time.

£120k is a job to do with internatinol customs port affairs less complicated than it sounds

i want to go to a college where i can study gaming development ages 16-18
then a uni but i want to go to one that is in the top spots in the world i dont care too much about country or price but i wanna have a look at a collage first
thank you

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Rudeness aside, it was difficult for me to fully understand on the first pass what you were trying to say.

Same here. Maybe its late, your sentences are structured wrong. So back on topic, if its a job that you wont hate, and you can program as a hobby, do that instead. There are all kinds of options for you to work on your own and sell casual/flash games etc.

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Original post by wolf767 £120k is a job to do with internatinol customs port affairs less complicated than it sounds

Then why are you even considering anything else? Working on games will require 60+ hour weeks, for not even half that in terms of pay (much less than half that if you're straight out of school). Work at the £120k job during the day, work on your games at night.

Seriously, what school is offering this course that guarantees a £120k job at the end?

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Original post by wolf767 well i thought i would get a reply like that well first of all £120k a year study program its one of the hardest programs to get into its in sweden i know that best graduate who came out of it and he can get me a place

So it's a very hard, very competitive course but your friend can get you a place? Really? In that case if you don't want to go I'll pay him £1000 to get me in...

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Original post by wolf767 well i thought i would get a reply like that well first of all £120k a year study program its one of the hardest programs to get into its in sweden i know that best graduate who came out of it and he can get me a place but sadly its not my pasion my parents thinks games are absooltly stupid but i like the concept of creating a world thosands of people will enjoy fow hours and i love it so far dose anybody know the best collages i can go to dont care where they are can be anywere in the world just so i can have a look at what its like pro style and be able to get into a good uni that can garantee me a good role in future game?

I'm going to assume you're actually from the UK.

If you can't spell words like college, absolutely or guarantee or use punctuation AND you can still earn £120k a year the economy needs an even bigger kick in the balls than it's currently getting.

First and formost. The course that will guarentee you £120,000 a year is bullshit. Whoever told you about it wheather it was the actual courses marketing or your friend or whoever is wrong.
Currenty the highest paid graduate jobs in the UK in order are accounting, buisness and computing jobs. The highest any of these will be offering graduates is around £30,000 and this is very rare. Expect on average to get a £24,000 starting salary with a computer science degree.
As for work experience, you won't get a job in the games industry because as stated by Talroth you are too young to sign an NDA contract.
If you are thinking about college then quite a lot of colleges in the UK are offering some kind of games related course.

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Original post by Buster2000The highest any of these will be offering graduates is around £30,000 and this is very rare.

I don't think you can rule out higher starting salaries but they will be special cases for individuals who find the right people to amaze, not a normal graduate recruitment scheme. If you can win multiple finals at TopCoder's annual tournament for example, you have proved you are in the top 0.001%.