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Video Game Design Careers - Where To Start

Author: Hitoshi Jones Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

It's getting to that time in your life when you have to start considering exactly what you'll be doing with your career and video games look like a solid field. You're good with numbers, you know a little programming code, or you're a fairly decent artist. Any of these are good reasons to...

Video Game Tester - A Game Tester's Typical Day

Author: Hitoshi Jones Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

I wake up, go to work and play. Seems an odd comment from an adult, but sometimes you can arrange it. I'm a video game tester. Video game testing jobs aren't just about mouse and controller skills. The main characteristic needed is precision. But that's just the beginning. You see, games...

How to Become a Cosmetic Laser Technician

Author: Jason Begley Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

How would you like to have a career that required the use of laser beams, ultrasonic emission devices, and the manipulation of photon streams? It sounds a bit like a science fiction movie. Perhaps you might prefer a job that would allow you to help others by using machines to turn back the...

Building a Foundation for an Enhanced Artistic Vision from a Distance

Author: Donald Mitchell Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

An artist's perspective is a key that unlocks the door into a new world of understanding for viewers. Yet where does such a novel perspective come from? While natural objects often inform artists, few powerful artistic perspectives emerge solely from viewing nature. In fact, until the 19th...

Jack, Be Nimble! -- What Have You Learned Today? Who Have You Helped Today?

Author: Donald Mitchell Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

In many cultures, rules, roles, and choices are very circumscribed. I remember speaking once with an Italian friend about gondoliers in Venice, Italy. Gondoliers usually inherit their tiny mooring places from their fathers, who had done the same from their fathers. Most gondoliers live lives...

Assessing Your Job Abilities To Get A Promotion

Author: chris boaz Subscribe to users feed

Published: 22/05/2008

Learning how to access your abilities may not be something that is easy for you to do. You may find it difficult to get what you want with what you know. There are a few things that you will need to do in order to get what you want and have the career that makes you happy and gives you the...

Why Decide to Train as a Medical Transcriptionist?

Author: Stephanie Foster Subscribe to users feed

Published: 21/05/2008

Out of the many work at home options out there, medical transcription is pretty popular. It's a great option for people who want to be home with their kids. The pay is good, as are the opportunities. But it's certainly not for everyone. You really do need to be dedicated to it. You need to...

Make the Rules! -- Don't Just Do What Everyone Else Does

Author: Donald Mitchell Subscribe to users feed

Published: 21/05/2008

If you ask most young people about what they are learning, they will make an unpleasant face. Even those who enjoy learning will often pretend that they don't. Why? The youthful ideal is to float through life without a care in the world . . . and if you can't do that, to at least pretend to be...

Something A Little Different In The Job Centre

Author: Catherine Harvey Subscribe to users feed

Published: 21/05/2008

Pop down your local job centre and trawl through the adverts for cleaners, hod carriers and care assistants and you will soon expect to see the same old jobs thrown up time and time again. Having done this myself it kind of becomes quite repetitive. The same old companies, the same old jobs, the...

Distance Learning: A Flexible Option for Today's Busy Lifestyle

Author: Christine Harrell Subscribe to users feed

Published: 21/05/2008

What would have been impossible -- and even laughable just a few decades ago have now rocked the foundation of higher education altogether. Our lives have changed. We no longer follow the predetermined path of college at 18, graduation at 22, marriage and 2.5 kids, retirement at 65 with a gold...