Talking with my colleagues, I knew that we are some common reactions that people do when they know our job.
First reaction
“...Are you working in a videogames company? Cool, so you are playing all day long!!!…”
I’m sorry but I do not play games all day long; on the contrary, I play less games now than one year ago; maybe when the videogame world becomes your job, you see the “the product” in a completely different way.
Ok, sometime I play the game if I need to test it in my field of competence (IT and online), but I spend most of the time in some activities that are very usual as in other jobs (monitoring system, designing and deploying new services); the interesting thing is that the final product is a product that I’m passionate about.
Second reaction
“...Are you working in a videogames company? Cool, so you can give me any sort of new games that you have…”
When you can see the efforts in a videogame company, I have to reconsider downloading games. If a game is a masterpiece YOU HAVE TO BUY IT, ABSOLUTELY!
As a benefit in the other companies you can have a mobile phone, a notebook and so on, in a videogame computer company you can rent and order the games you consider valuables.
Please try to imagine opening a closet full of videogames. In my company, you can open this kind of closet!!
Enjoy this rainy evening!
Cheers,
Marco