Meh, I\'m somewhat of a private person so I wasn\'t going to respond to this thread, but why not...
For the past six years, I\'ve been a game designer with a relatively small company. I\'ve fairly recently left due to what I felt were very poor management decisions.
At the moment, I\'m actually doing acceptably at painting miniatures for a living, though the cut in pay is going to take some getting used to.
I intend to start my own gaming company, though I will likely focus on miniatures and tabletop gaming rather than computer games. I\'m slowly putting the pieces together to make this a reality, but it\'ll take time. I have no interest in hurrying a crap product to market.
Before my game design job, I was for all intents and purposes an interior decorator -- painting, renovating, moving furniture, design. It was a very dull job which was sucking the life out of me, but the pay was very nice. People will pay outrageous sums for the most pointless things. <chuckles>
I\'ve also been a musician and actor, but never managed to get my opportunities to sync up. Ironically, one of my closest friends was the assistant manager for Guns & Roses, so I\'m still tempted to toss together a demo tape once last time before truly calling it quits on that front. It\'s just that after 17 years of frustration, I\'m not in any hurry to bother with it. Maybe if I happen across a really astonishing drummer and/or guitarist (I\'m a singer mainly).
Hmm. I suppose for now, I\'m content painting miniatures and trying to save money for my gaming project.
Kep