What is the earning potential a year for a video game programmer?
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First of all, it is very very hard to get in!\n\nYou have to be good at the thing you do. I talked to EA. They are looking for individuals who know their material pretty well. Like don't say your good at everything. Just emphasise one thing.\n\nBut earning potential is outstanding! You make easily 6 figures a year. And You have fun all the time :) My friend works at EA. He said he programs whenever he wants whatever he wants.. But as long as he gets thing done quickly!
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Anything with programming should help. Research job sites like monster, dice, hotjobs, vault, allamericanjobs to see what seems to be in demand at the time you are looking to come.
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I will tell you about my limited experience.\n\nI am a Canadian citizen and resident. Canada is a HORRIBLE place to work as a programmer. The pay is extremely low in comparison to the United States, particularly if you have an advanced degree (Ph.D. in my case).\n\nI took a job in the U.S. that paid roughly 5 times the salary that I could expect in Canada.\n\nSo my limited experience tells me that the US is WAAAAAY better than Canada. I could not possibly accurately tell you how it fares relative to the rest of the world, but I would suspect that it would fare well.\n\nAgreed with the above, COBOL limits yourself far too much. It is a small and shrinking field - it was great coming up to Y2K, but has been downhill since then.\n\nYou are far better to learn highly language-independent skills, such as taking courses on algorithms (searching, sorting, determining complexity and such), digital signal processing (DSP), signal processing and mathematics.
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It depends on the area you live in and the type of company you work for.  An experienced EA can easily command a salary in the high 30's/low 40s.
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Obviously not including CA, NY or some other crazy economy i would say anywhere from 35k starting out with min certs up to 110k plus if someone sucks up for long enough.
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As with any field, how much money there is to be made depends on the supply and demand. There are many sub-fields in computer engineering from database management to embedded systems design. And then there are specialists and general engineers. Specialists generally get paid more, but have a more difficult time finding employment. General engineers have more that they can get hired for, but there are more of them, so the competition for jobs can be great. \nAnd then you get into marketing, that is marketing yourself. If you want to see the effect of marketing on your potential as a "computer geek", just look at the list of richest people in the world, and see who is at the top of the list. \nWhat I would recommend would be to look at what sub-field of computer engineering you enjoy the most, and are best at, and see how others in that field have fared. Learn from their mistakes and try new approaches to acheive success. In a free market economy, there is always potential, for success and for failure. Both can be educational.
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look on Monster.com  They have a section where you can put in qualifications, and they will give you average salaries.
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A lot.  Then again it wouldn't really matter if you made that much.  It's like 7 times what a normal person makes.
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If you own a PC & can afford a small cost towards some CPLD/ FPGA Kits & one/two Quality books to practise at Home,have dedication to learn regularly & can do some hobby projects.One can demand a  salary Internationally \non an average of US$60K with just 1year experience only. Contact for more information with your full contact details <IAAI(dot)IT@gmail.com> with your present profile/status.
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I would have to push to the computer technician.  Spent three years taking night courses at DeVry for a degree in electronics.  Spent the next 6 years in electronics not making as much as I had hoped.  Then started another job not related at all to help out a friend.  Now degree is worthless.  Computers is where it is all going.  These days in electronics, it's usually cheaper to replace than repair.  Computers are here to stay and even more so, software is where the money is.  We will always need newer, more complex software.  Look at the gaming industry alone.  A new game can be released for $40+ and sell like hot cakes.  A year later it will drop to $20 or even $10 and still continue to sell.  Just my opinion.  Hope this helps.
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It depends really but we can look at the following, depending which area within the video games you want to get into:\n\nYou could be a character design, who creates the characters for games.\n\nBut if you also learn software development, then companies are going to go for you because you don't only create characters for vidoe games but also know how to make the game.\n\nYou might want to just be a graphic designer and do illustrations for their packaging, which means you need to start drawing now, get use to using different design packages.\n\nThe best think I would advise though it visit not a college but a university that specialise in that kind of field, so you can foresee what studies you need to do.\n\nThat way you can plan way ahead and get yourself ready. Also, you can contact a company or even go to community association of games that hold events where people from around the world come and many of them create games, or do illustrations for games, or create characters for games.\n\nNow, that's exciting because you have a full day meeting loads of people to talk, to ask questions from grass roots level. And its fun.\n\nBut best place is definitley contact a university that has courses for this so you can see which area you want to get yourself in. By doing this you get to know exactly what a tester does, what a programmer does.\n\nIt's best to go and see with your own eyes and see if you can imagine yourself doing this or that. It's worth doing.\n\nGood luck!
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Apply for a Job online at Monster.com, Dice.com or Hotjobs.com.\n\nIf getting hands on experience is the issue, get yourself involved in an open source project. You will learn more than you can contribute. :)
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Do you think that's an achievable goal for yourself? Do you think you'd be able to make "A LIVING" at something like that? Shouldn't you be concentrating on something more "concrete"? Something more grounded in the "real world". Maybe you should start out by persuing a career in video game development. You could be a game "tester" while you're getting your computer programming degree. While you're "testing" the games you could use your connections to persue your dream of being a professional video game player.
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I know a Unix system administrator who makes 85,000 right after school. Software testers are also in demand.  You can make more money and have a more secure job if you are good at managing people overseas in an outsourcing environment.\n\nIf you really like money, consider sales and be paid on commission. First, there's no limit on your potential income.  The harder you work, the more you make.  Second, you have more opportunities to be promoted to an executive position, making more than 200,000 per year plus lots of stock options.\n\nTo produce a good current income, pornography is a lucrative business, especially while you are still young and hot.  A reputable one in the US is\n\nhttp://www.hustler.com/beaverhunt/\n\nThen, use your earned cash to invest in your education towards your long-term ambitious career goals.
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Simple work as a programmer for a company that deals with physics
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depending on the grade level, around 20-40k a year
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You gotta start from game programming as such... game designing will require some skills you would polish being a game programmer first... graphics and animation studios are the ones you first start with... then it shall follow character making... and visual effect training... \n\nsome resources for you\nhttp://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html \nand \nhttp://gpwiki.org/