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5:24pm - Oops, I opened my blog and started working, but didn't make a start post! I don't know how long I've been working. At least an hour, maybe two? I left home at around 3pm so I've probably been working for 90-120 minutes.
I've been working on that Udemy lesson again, for Entity Framework. I just finished the second set of exercises.
5:33pm - I have to admit, I'm having trouble working on this. While I've been applying to jobs, I've come to realize I'm really spreading myself thin by trying to work on so many things. The more I work on non-game projects for my portfolio, the less I'm working on game projects for my portfolio, and vice-versa. I'm not focused enough and I worry that's going to hurt my chances in either field.
Should I be more focused on one or the other?
There may be more video game studios in London than most other towns in my region but there aren't actually that many steady game dev jobs, and they're pretty competitive.
Then again, general software development is pretty competitive too. As far as I know there's no company scooping up all the trained software developers they can get, and I'm not exactly a normal developer.
I'm not really sure what to do with myself, to be honest.
I don't want the money I paid for these courses to be wasted, but I'm not sure that learning ASP.NET or Entity Framework is really going to help me as a game developer.
I'd like to re-learn Blender so I can work on my big River Valley Game project. However, that project isn't going to go on my portfolio to make it look better for game dev jobs, at least not for a long time. I don't want to spend time on another game that I could be spending on River Valley though, just for the chance to get a job as a game developer and have even less time to work on my own projects.
I'm probably being too wishy-washy. I want to have it all and do everything, but to do it well and on time I need to focus and make a choice, and I'm just not doing that. I'm running in circles trying to do everything at once.
Speaking of which, Ludum Dare is next weekend. I'm thinking of participating again. That's another thing to do...
5:50pm - So yeah, I'm not going to say 'I'm going to focus on non-game-dev work!' and I'm not going to stop looking for non-game-dev work either so I guess I'm stuck like this for now.
I'm going to see what I can do with Blender for now.
6:01pm - Oh geez it's getting loud now. There's a fella havin' a phone call next to me, and a family is here finishing their meal. I'm not sure this is going to be a good place to work much longer.
I guess that's okay though, because I mostly came to work to get out of my funk of not working at home. I could do something else now or just work on learning Blender at home, so I think I'll do that now.
I've been working on that Udemy lesson again, for Entity Framework. I just finished the second set of exercises.
5:33pm - I have to admit, I'm having trouble working on this. While I've been applying to jobs, I've come to realize I'm really spreading myself thin by trying to work on so many things. The more I work on non-game projects for my portfolio, the less I'm working on game projects for my portfolio, and vice-versa. I'm not focused enough and I worry that's going to hurt my chances in either field.
Should I be more focused on one or the other?
There may be more video game studios in London than most other towns in my region but there aren't actually that many steady game dev jobs, and they're pretty competitive.
Then again, general software development is pretty competitive too. As far as I know there's no company scooping up all the trained software developers they can get, and I'm not exactly a normal developer.
I'm not really sure what to do with myself, to be honest.
I don't want the money I paid for these courses to be wasted, but I'm not sure that learning ASP.NET or Entity Framework is really going to help me as a game developer.
I'd like to re-learn Blender so I can work on my big River Valley Game project. However, that project isn't going to go on my portfolio to make it look better for game dev jobs, at least not for a long time. I don't want to spend time on another game that I could be spending on River Valley though, just for the chance to get a job as a game developer and have even less time to work on my own projects.
I'm probably being too wishy-washy. I want to have it all and do everything, but to do it well and on time I need to focus and make a choice, and I'm just not doing that. I'm running in circles trying to do everything at once.
Speaking of which, Ludum Dare is next weekend. I'm thinking of participating again. That's another thing to do...
5:50pm - So yeah, I'm not going to say 'I'm going to focus on non-game-dev work!' and I'm not going to stop looking for non-game-dev work either so I guess I'm stuck like this for now.
I'm going to see what I can do with Blender for now.
6:01pm - Oh geez it's getting loud now. There's a fella havin' a phone call next to me, and a family is here finishing their meal. I'm not sure this is going to be a good place to work much longer.
I guess that's okay though, because I mostly came to work to get out of my funk of not working at home. I could do something else now or just work on learning Blender at home, so I think I'll do that now.
