Career Archives - Nadya Primak

Career, Learning, Programming

Self Taught Tech Journey Book Excerpt: Chapter One

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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 […]

Career, Game Development

Why you Should Submit your Game to a Local Event

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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 […]

Career, Game Development, Tech Industry

How much money is passion worth?

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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 […]

Career, Tech Industry

New Job Imposter Syndrome

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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 […]

Career, Game Development, Tech Industry

What Happens to Women in the Game Industry

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In light of the reports of sexual assault from game developers Nathalie Lawhead, Zoë 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 […]

Career, Tech Industry

Dealing with Work Transitions in Tech

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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 […]

Career, Programming, Tech Industry

How the Tech Industry Discourages Multi-Passionates

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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 […]

Career, Digital Art

Why I Don’t Make Art For a Living: How Capitalism Kills Creativity

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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 […]