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I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.
I tweet?
Posted by: Elite Mouse
You shouldn't.
Assuming you can even get anywhere in such a saturated market, you'll likely be overworked and underpaid, and your entire career will hinge on how well your game sells, as is life as a developer.
If you like computers, there are a lot of opportunities for a computer science major.
When you realize how unrealistic it is to get a job making video games, there will be 500 new high school kids, with the same aspirations, ready to take your place.
What Mouse said. To get anywhere in the video game job market you need to bring something exceptional to the table, something that sets you above all the aspiring grads out there who wish to work for their favorite developer. You really should be asking yourself the question you pose, OP. If you don't have an answer or if it's anything other than for the love of [insert aspect of development] with an over all sense of love for just producing video games, then I suggest you may want to look somewhere else other than Bungie/Game Development.
If you can roll with it though, 401k, insurance benefits, and competitive salaries and profit sharing are definitely the things that catches my eyes for long term investiment.