Thinking of a Career in games development?

Here is what you are up against for starters, it's a crowded place, and only the rockstars actually make it.

https://infinitroid.com/blog/posts/did_i_just_waste_3_years
Okay, so you read the link, 3 years of not getting paid at all, still worth it as a learning experience, I mean sure 3 years on and you have got to have learned a lot. You are only employable once you have really made a few mistakes and learned to work independently and become a really valuable asset.

My son

A bit like me, at that age, all I wanted to do was program and sometimes write games, mainly program useful programs, and maybe games sometimes. Reality sets in after a decade, and you discover that games does not pay, a decade on you are already too old to play that "game". And what will you have learned? Not much. Moving from games development into commercial development is hard, moving the other way is like falling off of a bike in comparison. Very few games have gotten released without an "iron triangle" around the developers neck, a hard deadline. Hard deadlines in commercial dev jobs are much tougher, but they have a life after release, games don't. Last year's game does need maintaining, nobody will fund the maintenance, and besides, the code is probably not maintainable in smaller games. Welcome to the real world, commercial development is as close to the edge as you get these days. What is your experience?