As a professional programmer, I spend an awful lot of time using a keyboard. When I went to apply for my first game industry job at Maxis, I had to apply through a temp agency, and one of the things that the temp agency made me do was their typing test. I scored about 90…
Something I don’t understand: I’m no longer driving into work every day. This saves me approximately an hour every day. I’m doing some work at home, let’s call it eight hours a day (In practice, it’s probably a little bit less than that, but for the sake of argument, let’s call it eight hours per…
Notice how all of my posts recently have been in this “General life” category? Losing my job has kind of thrown me into a spin, even though I have good prospects for paying work for at least the next six months or so. I haven’t managed to actually write any home project code since I…
On Monday of this week (10/18/2010), my employer Krome Studios shut down. This is the mug that I used for most of my career in the video games industry. It seems wrong to have it at home, or to drink from it here. So it just sits on a counter and collects dust, now.
So here’s what’s going on: my employer is apparently going into receivership. Today was my last day. I’ve been given a redundancy package, which basically covers me for the next month. However, my accrued leave isn’t being paid out — this comes to about four months worth of paychecks that I won’t be receiving. It’s…