I just had an exam over the internet. I was to translate a text from japanese to swedish and answer a bunch of questions within an hour. All was fine untill the second that I'm pressing the send-button to submit my answers to my teacher. Yes, at the exact second I press the button, my internet bails out on me. I have a few minutes to spare so I quickly restart my computer. Doesn't help. I slip the text file over to my USB memory stick, quickly run over to my mother's computer, start it up and her internet access is also down. I then fail my exam, and no teacher in his right mind will ever believe me.
Now, yesterday I talked more to the guy who wanted to start a business together with me. He offered to put me on payroll if/when I want to quit school. (For reasons too long to explain) I said that I'd rather finish my class first, and declined getting any money until december. Maybe I should rethink that. I barely take the time to study these days anyway, and I'll be failing three of four exams this week (not as bad as it sounds, this education won't give me a job anyway, and I can't continue studying next term).
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Nov '07
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...But it still seems that all the people that 'settle down' in a normal job don't seem to do anything that impressive with their life (as a general rule, there are exceptions), and that the largest achievements tend to come from people who don't work for anyone else...
now, i apologize for dragging commercial games into your conversation, but this coming analogy is quite fitting considering the subject matter:
will wright
shigeru miyamoto
they don't do anything impressive with their lives or creations?
maybe i'm in the minority on this, but i beg to differ...
seems as if you might be creating an artificial rule set for success. isn't success actually determined by the individual, and not the structure of his/her work environment?
Nov '07
22
Will Wright actually owned his own business (Maxis) before being bought out by EA. Also, Miyamoto wasn't hired by Nintendo until he was about 30, before which he never had a job before, so it's possible that he learned some of his independence during that time. But yeah, I'm not saying it's universal, it just seems more common.
Nov '07
22
Will Wright actually owned his own business (Maxis) before being bought out by EA. Also, Miyamoto wasn't hired by Nintendo until he was about 30, before which he never had a job before, so it's possible that he learned some of his independence during that time. But yeah, I'm not saying it's universal, it just seems more common.
that's fine. but, by this logic everybody fits your description. nobody is employed before they're employed for the first time ;)
i'm not trying to argue, mind you. instead i'm just trying to keep minds open and prevent gross labels and generalizations upon something that really can't be generalized. i just don't feel that whether or not somebody is employed has any effect on their own creative potential. the human spirit is as big as the individual decides it to be - regardless of outside force/influence.
Nov '07
22
The idea that nothing can be generalized about this is itself a generalization, though.
Also, saying that there's definitely no relationship between how hard one works and whether they work for someone else or themselves is the same type of thing as saying that there definitely is such a relationship (which wasn't what I was saying exactly, I was saying that I suspect there is).
Also, saying that there's definitely no relationship between how hard one works and whether they work for someone else or themselves is the same type of thing as saying that there definitely is such a relationship (which wasn't what I was saying exactly, I was saying that I suspect there is).
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