- CrazzySnipe55
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If you're honest about this all, I would do the following:
A) If you can swing it, get at least a bachelor's degree. Having a degree, while perhaps less relevant when the incalculable element of skill comes into play, makes a huge difference to employers. It shows you've taken the initiative to, while you may be amazing at your practice, make the effort to apply your skills to higher learning and improve on them (even if its in a minor way).
B) Keep applying until you get an answer. And, without looking desperate (obviously), make it clear you'd be willing to move out to Washington for this all (as would probably be expected of an employee currently living out of state). Make it clear you're more dedicated than Jim Javascript who applies to Bungie because they like Halo games and took a beginners programming class in High School.
C) If you haven't already, get a portfolio of really mind-blowing (well, as mind-blowing as code can be? I guess? I'm not sure I'm not familiar with coding/programming/scripting in any way) material that you've put together. Make them believe you really are as fluent in code as you are in English. Exemplify your fluidity in coding, and your problem solving skills.
Turn Bungie into the party that is willing to go after you rather than you continually going after and chasing a job at Bungie.
Make them want you more than you want them. Become a possible asset; nay, a probable asset.
[Edited on 02.03.2012 9:00 PM PST]