Category: Career
Self Taught Tech Journey Book Excerpt: Chapter One
As some of you may have noticed I did not publish a new post last week. I wanted to let all of you know that there is a good reason for that! I am participating in the Women Make Challenge for the month of October, aiming to ship an ebook about getting my start as […]
Continue Reading...Why you Should Submit your Game to a Local Event
Last weekend I checked another item off my bucket list: sharing a game at a local development event. The event was District Arcade in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the game was one I talked about in a previous post: Grand Canyon Adventure. It has convinced me that if you are a game developer, you should […]
Continue Reading...How much money is passion worth?
A week or so ago there was a thread on Twitter that caught my eye. It was a tweet asking people what they would pick: a job making 50K per year that they love or a job making 100K that they hate? Working for money versus passion is often the central question many people face […]
Continue Reading...New Job Imposter Syndrome
I am writing this after just surviving my first week of a new job that gave me the worst imposter syndrome I’ve had since I first started working as a software engineer. To be clear, it had nothing to do with the job itself or how anyone treated me. In fact, I was pretty surprised […]
Continue Reading...What Happens to Women in the Game Industry
In light of the reports of sexual assault from game developers Nathalie Lawhead, ZoĆ« Quinn, and Adelaide Gardner at the hands of male industry legends this week, I felt like I needed to make this post. I’m not going to be the first or the last person writing about this topic. But their stories and […]
Continue Reading...Dealing with Work Transitions in Tech
My life has been full of work transitions lately, which has caused me to spend quite some time thinking about them. About a month ago the company I was working at was acquired. A few weeks prior to that I had a recruiter reach out to me about an exciting opportunity and I decided to […]
Continue Reading...How the Tech Industry Discourages Multi-Passionates
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how I sometimes regret specializing in a front end development framework. Mainly because I inadvertently pigeonholed myself into work with outdated technology. What I realized I might have been accidentally implying in that post is that the tech industry therefore prefers multi-passionate people. I wanted to […]
Continue Reading...Why I Don’t Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity
I’ve been writing a lot about game development and coding so far on the blog, and I wanted to mix things up a bit, especially because I initially created this blog with the help of a book called Renaissance Business by Emilie Wapnick. I discovered her after listening to her amazing TED talk . Basically […]
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