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Give this kid a job right now

by mocmoc 3y ago

Tade0 3y ago
School first.
- jksflkjl3jk3 3y ago
  Why?
  - Tade0 3y ago
    First and foremost it has to be their independent decision and nobody should be making such offers to a minor. Secondy, huge risk to drop it now. I've met people who either risked or dropped out of school to pursue a career(e.g. sports). Most (if not all - we lost touch so I don't know) regretted the decision and in one instance rebelled against her parents wanting her to somehow juggle school and sport (which was serious at that point because she was part of the junior national team) and dropped out of the latter altogether, despite her parents wishes. It won't hurt to wait those two years or so and instead hone those skills the same way they did all this time and just have a normal life before getting thrown in this high pressure environment that the world of 3D artists decidedly is. Even though it's just two years, eighteen year olds on average handle many situations much better than sixteen year olds.
    - notahacker 3y ago
      And where the 18 and 24 year olds don't handle it well because making someone else's vision on crunch schedules that exploit their ignorance of workplace norms (not quite as ignorant as a 16 year old's, but still) isn't nearly as fun as creating your own stuff in your own time, they've got more paper qualifications to fall back on than "I dropped out to make computer games but couldn't hack it and don't want to do it any more"...
  - RugnirViking 3y ago
    It really messes with people to draw them out as some exception; some prodigy as a child. It doesn't do well to nuture a quiet self sourced pride in craftsmanship; there are many tales of gifted children elevated to a pedastal who by 25 or 30 already feel like their life is over, who burn out and stop doing whatever it was they were so regarded for. The best thing for someone like this would be to find them a tutor who is much better than them, so they keep the humility and curiosity required to keep growing. And never to let the people around them big them up too much. I say this as someone that in some ways went through same
  - isolli 3y ago
    I once read about prodigy pianists who had mastered the technical part of their skill at age 13. But their career does not take off because few people actually want to listen to their performances (perhaps because they lack maturity). After going through a few years of this, quite a few of them just give up.

Give this kid a job right now

by mocmoc 3y ago

Give this kid a job right now

Tade0 3y ago

School first.

jksflkjl3jk3 3y ago
Why?
- Tade0 3y ago
  First and foremost it has to be their independent decision and nobody should be making such offers to a minor. Secondy, huge risk to drop it now. I've met people who either risked or dropped out of school to pursue a career(e.g. sports). Most (if not all - we lost touch so I don't know) regretted the decision and in one instance rebelled against her parents wanting her to somehow juggle school and sport (which was serious at that point because she was part of the junior national team) and dropped out of the latter altogether, despite her parents wishes. It won't hurt to wait those two years or so and instead hone those skills the same way they did all this time and just have a normal life before getting thrown in this high pressure environment that the world of 3D artists decidedly is. Even though it's just two years, eighteen year olds on average handle many situations much better than sixteen year olds.
  - notahacker 3y ago
    And where the 18 and 24 year olds don't handle it well because making someone else's vision on crunch schedules that exploit their ignorance of workplace norms (not quite as ignorant as a 16 year old's, but still) isn't nearly as fun as creating your own stuff in your own time, they've got more paper qualifications to fall back on than "I dropped out to make computer games but couldn't hack it and don't want to do it any more"...
- RugnirViking 3y ago
  It really messes with people to draw them out as some exception; some prodigy as a child. It doesn't do well to nuture a quiet self sourced pride in craftsmanship; there are many tales of gifted children elevated to a pedastal who by 25 or 30 already feel like their life is over, who burn out and stop doing whatever it was they were so regarded for. The best thing for someone like this would be to find them a tutor who is much better than them, so they keep the humility and curiosity required to keep growing. And never to let the people around them big them up too much. I say this as someone that in some ways went through same
- isolli 3y ago
  I once read about prodigy pianists who had mastered the technical part of their skill at age 13. But their career does not take off because few people actually want to listen to their performances (perhaps because they lack maturity). After going through a few years of this, quite a few of them just give up.