Ask HN: How long it took you to get your dream job. Why that long?
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38 years and still counting ;)
Dream job = Entrepreneurship
Yes, by job I didn't mean a company job - it can be whatever, entrepreneurship, non profit etc.
Hard to answer this question. Funny thing is, once you get your dream job, you don't stop having dreams.
I agree!
Maybe, it is because of our tendency as humans to hedonic adaptation (http://goo.gl/4EnTXL)
Fredians(1)
I was working on a corporate ASP.Net site when in early 2009 I decided I wanted to be a game developer instead of pursuing my previous dream of being a musician. I had published a couple of terrible games on iOS but wasn't qualified to do AAA development. A few months later I quit my job and ended up getting a position doing research programming in the AI lab at the University of Michigan under John Laird, who teaches the game dev course there. After a year of that I enrolled in the Master's program. By the time I graduated two years later I had an offer to work at Microsoft, where I ended up doing game prototyping for almost a year before moving to the 343 Industries team, which I think marks me achieving my dream of becoming a AAA game developer.