Moving on

Good luck

Heh thats cool, education sure has it's advantage if your ready for some serious parties

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It was no easy decission to make as I have really enjoyed being at IOI and learnt incredible much there. In the few years I have been at IO I have been so lucky to be involved in three different projects, each of them cooler than the other.I do however believe that the time is right for me to study further. If I don't do this now I am afraid that I never will and then regret that in 5-10 years. I always knew that I wanted some further education, I just have never been a 100% sure of when to do it or what to study.

This paragraph could have come from me one year ago! Excactly my mindset, my studies are slightly different but I know how you feel! I wish you the best Michael, I hope you'll stick around here though!

As I said to you by email Michael, I really think this is a great decision you took, one that can only help you in the future. Best of luck with it all, I'm sure you'll do fine and will enjoy a student's life

I always find these kinds of decisions weird, but I wish you a lot of good luck nonetheless

And being a student is nice:)

as i am finishing my bachelor degree right now, i can only tell you, that this is a good decision. being at university teaches you a lot. you need to organize your self, force your self to do much stronger research, impress people that know much better than the usual internet guy and the list goes on. imo studying is something that trains you mentally for your life and gives you a wide overview about a certain science discipline.

have fun with being a student!

Looks really awesome. Have fun there.

great decision

i'm sure they'd take you back any time if you want to, so it's a safe thing to do

Good luck Zacker, I'm sure it was the right decision (in the long run).

I'm thinking exactly the opposite lately: College isn't really challenging me enough anymore, leaving my motivation on the ground. So I've been thinking of putting it on on hold and pursue a games industry job. I can always go back and resume it if I feel like so. Who knows

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I always find these kinds of decisions weird

Exactly my thoughts!

I wish you the best of luck man!

Strange decision to me, but best of luck to you

Good luck mate.

Education for the win.

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Education for the win.

Some people say, that work is the best education one can have!

good luck

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being at the army teaches you a lot. you need to organize your self, force your self to do much stronger sit-ups, impress people that know nothing better than the usual internet guy and the list goes on. imo joining the army is something that trains you mentally for your life and gives you a wide overview about cleaning disciplines.have fun with being a soldier!

< If he would have joined the army it would read like this.

yeah because the army is the number one place to learn proper grammar and punctuation... :roll:

Yeah, I already told you that I admire this decision mainly because I wish I could pull myself together and get some more concrete education as well. Just so hard when you got your dream job and a great place to work already, and it still feels too recent that I've been in school (Which is like, 5 years ago.....D: ).

Best of luck dude, maybe you'll return one day with your newly gained alien knowledge and turn IO upside down

iI's fine in my opinion if you want to leave your current profession to pursue another, it would indeed be crazy to leave a game job for education if your goal was to rejoin it with some new skills, when you consider all the people coming out of uni (with a big dept to pay) looking for jobs and they can't get them for lack of real experience.

That being said, game development is just another job, sure it's quite a good one but an till you've done some retail game work at a studio it's very hard to see the reality of it.

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Yeah, I already told you that I admire this decision mainly because I wish I could pull myself together and get some more concrete education as well. Just so hard when you got your dream job and a great place to work already, and it still feels too recent that I've been in school (Which is like, 5 years ago.....D: ).Best of luck dude, maybe you'll return one day with your newly gained alien knowledge and turn IO upside down

Why can't you work and study at the same time? I used to have a full time job (8 hours a day + 2 hours lunchtime = 10 hours in total) but I still went to college at night It's not THAT punishing if you have flexible working hours (I hadn't though). You can easily make through it if you really inclined.