I'm 27. I didn't go to college and got my first job in games as Junior QA Tester at the one "real" games company in Western Australia at the time. After 3 mont

I'm 27. I didn't go to college and got my first job in games as Junior QA Tester at the one "real" games company in Western Australia at the time. After 3 months I was promoted to Senior QA, then the company went down. I freelanced doing software QA and web development for local independent games companies and other clients, as well as contracting doing web dev at a government agency. At the time was making 6 figures and living comfortably. Eventually I wanted to go back to games, but Australia at the time wasn't a great place for that and I knew I would have to move. I got my Australian citizenship (originally Ukrainian) and spent a year cutting down my work hours and spending all spare time focusing on making games in JS to build up my portfolio and learn. Ended up moving to Sweden on a Working Holiday visa with about a year's worth of savings and looking for work. Got a job as a Build Manager. Took a heavy pay cut from my freelance salary, but the work was worth it. That was 3 years ago. Currently I'm an SE in Build with a heavy focus on automated testing.