I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.