Well, coming into my sophomore year, I've been thinking about what I legitimately want to do with my life, and this is my ideal dream future (at least as of right now):

 

After graduating high school, I was going to go to college in San Francisco, where I'd be taking Writing classes as a major and maybe dabble in a few video game developing classes as a minor. During my college years I was also planning to take a job/internship at IGN on the side (the reason I'd be going to college in San Francisco anyways, for the experience at IGN) and afterwards, I wanted to apply for a screenwriting job (and later become a director/producer) at a video game company, ideally Square Enix, to write plots, dialogue and maybe even develop characters (hopefully some that aren't the typical depressed ex soldier characters they keep popping out) and maybe even work in Tokyo?

 

This is like my dream, and with all that I'm asking I'm pretty sure that won't even come close to happening, but I could always try, yeah?

 

Of course, I was also thinking of other career possibilities, like a screen writer (or director/producer) for film, or television, or maybe even an author. Something that involves story writing, I always wanted to create a plot line that was my own, something I could do whatever I wanted to do with it, and create something that other people would be interested, and maybe even make fanbases based off of my franchises

 

So I was wondering, should I pursue the video game screen writing career (at possible square enix in tokyo), with an IGN job/internship while going to college, should I try going into the film industry instead, becoming an author, or something else? I want to go into a career that I'll enjoy, but wont crash in a few years, and I feel that RPG games are starting to go down the drain, I'm afraid of investing my life into becoming the ideal RPG creator, and then the RPG's going out of style due to the poorly/unoriginal RPG's that have been coming out recently (totally not saying I could do better, I'm not trying to say I'm all that, but just stating what I've noticed). So what should I do?

I think you should always pursue your dreams so later in life you have no regrets but makes sure you have other back up avenues to sustain yourself if this dream may take time or take a lot of hard work to build up experience in .No one can tell you what to do exactly when it comes to this big of a decision in your life bc it is ,after all, your life.

Edited August 13, 201213 yr by Flaming Lea

with whatever you want really. you should follow your dreams. but if those dreams take too long to accomplish then you should do something else until you can accomplish your dreams. beleive in your dreams and dont give up on them!

Well, this might sound kind of harsh, but I don't think asking a group of mostly younger/middle teenagers what you should do with your life is a good idea.

 

Do something you will enjoy, but don't base your career entirely off of that. You have to do what pays the bills, too.

As someone who works in the video game industry, it will be hard to get into a Production/Director role without a Business/Project Management Degree. Not saying that it's not possible as I've seen it, but it is harder

Ask your heart, it will guide you to the right direction.