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The rate of veteran unemployment is very high. You'd be amazed what you'll do for money, especially when you have a wife and kids, which a lot of veterans do.
by w1ntermute 13y ago
The rate of veteran unemployment is very high. You'd be amazed what you'll do for money, especially when you have a wife and kids, which a lot of veterans do.
- rl3 13y agoNo one here is criticizing veterans who do consulting gigs. I think it's great the opportunity exists in the first place. Part of what I was trying to convey, and what I believe the post you're replying to was trying to convey, was the inherent surrealism involved in the whole process. You have SF veterans coming home from an ongoing conflict, getting paid to consult for companies making entertainment products that purport to portray the very same conflict they just came from, and may even return to. It's just weird on many levels. In an ideal world, these guys would be paid better and get slotted into executive-level jobs upon return, negating any need to do consulting gigs. On the other hand, as another poster pointed out: working with a game studio in that capacity is something akin to a movie deal; it's very, very cool.
- kazagistar 13y agoNot sure why the ideal world is one where veterans become executives. Military service is pretty explicitly an escape hatch path from lower-class to middle-class. From a market perspective, making the rewards too high might actually destroy this essentially necessary social purpose via competition.
- rl3 13y agoI was referring to the Special Forces veterans who consult for games: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904336 Special Forces is a high bar already, and the "Tier 1"/Special Mission Unit subset of that is pretty much knocking on the door of peak of peak human capability. Also, for very large corporations, a low-to-mid level executive position isn't all that lofty.