Taking game development or networking in college

Rustle Monkey · April 7, 2014

I'm going off to college next year and I'm having trouble choosing what course to take. I got into all of my programs and I'm stuck between the choice of a 3 year game development course and or a 3 year computer networking course. I'm just not sure what the jobs are like for either and would actually like coming out of college with a job, but I also want to enjoy what I do. I would love if someone could explain their college experience and what it was like finding and doing their jobs.

TEDWARDS · April 7, 2014

If your game development course is teaching programming I would go for it, as that seems to be what the market is exploding with

also with games dev expect a lot of documents before you get to practical work

Unhelpful · April 7, 2014

Always go with what you enjoy more, but I will say this. Networking is exploding. It also has immense job security, people dont stop needing networks. Networking is also fairly-high pay. Game dev is only ever high pay if you are are one of the top people. But once again, go with what you think you would enjoy more.

I had to make that same choice a year or two ago. Went with networking.

fizzlesticks · April 7, 2014

If you have to ask this question, I would say go with networking.

Game programming is an overpopulated field and if you could even get a job there is no security at all. You'll work well over 40 hours a week for usually less pay than a networking type job.

I would only recommend game programming to people who have dreamt about making games growing up and that's all they wanted to do and since you're here asking for advice I assume that isn't the case.