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I mostly want to retire so I can work on the things I actually want to work on, all the accumulated ideas for side projects I've only been able to take so far i
by cableshaft 4y ago
I mostly want to retire so I can work on the things I actually want to work on, all the accumulated ideas for side projects I've only been able to take so far in my spare time.
Like I have five video games still pretty much in prototype form I keep having ideas for but no time or energy to implement, so I can't do much more than write them down on paper and maybe put a few hours into them a week when I'm not feeling so run down from my day job/maintaining the home/cooking.
I don't really want to work on yet another enterprise-level healthcare/finance/insurance system. I'd consider switching back to the game industry full time but it still sounds like it's a shit show for how it treats its employees (some video game company employees are forming unions recently, though, which is a much overdue change), and would almost certainly be a significant pay cut, also I've been out of it long enough it'll probably be difficult to find a company that would hire me again.
Also I'd still have the problem of working on games that aren't my own ideas, plus it could be a contractual conflict of interest if I ever did release my own games as it would be the same industry then.