- Mar 13, 2020
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I think this is a common problem in games media in general...a lot of people just...write about games and that's it. They don't expand their skillset to be viable at other jobs and thus get stuck just making the same thing over and over again because it's what sells, even to the detriment of their own creative mind.
This is something I learned really early because I didn't get the same opportunities that a lot of people get living on the coasts and having easy access to the "right" people. I ran my own websites and I hoped I'd get somewhere with it, but by the end of college I was pretty sure I was never gonna make it.
So over the years I've become extremely fluent in SEO, analytics, UX design, event planning, community management, etc. If I ever get burnt out doing this stuff, then I have fallback options to move into that I equally enjoy.
Also creating content that's just constantly...angry...I'll never get it. It just seems like a quick way to screw up your own mental health and become so jaded that you can't enjoy the work or daily life. Maybe that's exaggerating a bit, but based on how people act on social media, I don't really know.
This is something I learned really early because I didn't get the same opportunities that a lot of people get living on the coasts and having easy access to the "right" people. I ran my own websites and I hoped I'd get somewhere with it, but by the end of college I was pretty sure I was never gonna make it.
So over the years I've become extremely fluent in SEO, analytics, UX design, event planning, community management, etc. If I ever get burnt out doing this stuff, then I have fallback options to move into that I equally enjoy.
Also creating content that's just constantly...angry...I'll never get it. It just seems like a quick way to screw up your own mental health and become so jaded that you can't enjoy the work or daily life. Maybe that's exaggerating a bit, but based on how people act on social media, I don't really know.