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Yeh, I have never really fully created a game yet but after studying economics in highschool and learning alot from youtube Indie Devs, I realised that creating a game is only half the work, the other half is marketing it and creating your own audience for your games, which is why I am also looking into creating youtube videos, tho I am not fully sure yet if I would purely make Game Dev vids or just artsy/small animated videos (for example like Berd). Yes I have been thinking when it comes to day jobs. I definetly want something that is fun to do on its own, something different than Game Design so I can always fall back on it, but that's where my questionmark is. I got no idea what day job would suit someone like me. Using some of my creativity should def be in there. I have been thinking about teacher although u need a degree for that, working in a tech shop also sounds fun tho shopworkers are paid poorly in Belgium, Web Design is another option that I have seen being mentioned alot next to Graphic Design or Game Design but there's also the programming part to that job which I am not fully sure of if I would enjoy it and offcourse programming but again I am afraid it might feel too boring to me. Not sure offcourse, I could always try and learn it and see how it goes.

I really like the idea behind creating games. Maybe I should do it as an Indie Dev instead of working for big companies, I'm not sure. I have heard of all the horror stories, about how hard it is to find a job in the industry and how poorly people get treated there. That's also why I doubt if Game Design is the way to go and the reason for me asking for advice on other jobs that could suit me. Sitting in front of a computer is for me no issue. I am used to it and already spend most of my time infront of a computer right now. However I don't fully understand how you can make yourself like something? I myself see programming more as writing code without real inspiration. Maybe I'm wrong in that, I'm not sure. If you know any videos or tips on how to get yourself to like something you aren't into at first then I would really appreciate a link to such videos or those tips themselves. I suppose you are correct about the college thing, perhaps I would just need more practice. I was planning on doing that. Creating my own Game Dev company or something. I have alot of ideas for different games and wrote them all down, took screenshots of anything that inspired me, saved playlists of music that inspired me and so on. I think using Social Media and selecting some niches in the Gaming Industry could help me make that dream a reality. For example many games are being released every year and only a few get well known, however there are certain kind of games or games with certain themes or audiences that will always get free media coverage (mostly by youtubers in that niche, some of them having a pretty impressive following). So I believe that is the way to buildup my own audience and maybe eventually be able to work all for myself.

Could you pm the info to me on this account? As I said in a reaction to this post: I'm the original poster of this and someone else posted my reddit post on this website. When it comes to my personality info: What else would you like to know? Also I noticed some things were left out from my original post so I'd like to link to my reddit post again, maybe that helps out a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/findapath/comments/iejka9/22_lost_and_afraid/ Thanks alot!

Hi everyone! So I am actually the person behind the post. I posted this on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/findapath/comments/iejka9/22_lost_and_afraid/ Someone took my post there and posted it here and then showed me the link to this place. I would love if any messages or pm's meant to help would go to me ^^ Thanks alot for the help already!