Girl turns stripper after getting worthless $70,000 game desig

Feels Good Man · Aug 11, 2010

QUOTE said:
Carrianne Howard dreamed of designing video games, so she enrolled in a program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit college part-owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Her bachelor’s degree in game art and design cost $70,000 in tuition and fees. After she graduated in December 2007, she found a job that paid $12 an hour recruiting employees for video game companies. She lost that job a year later when her department was shuttered.

These days, Howard, 26, makes her living in a way that doesn’t require a college diploma: by stripping at the Lido Cabaret, a topless club in Cocoa Beach, Florida. “I didn’t know what else to do,” she says. “I’ve got a worthless degree. It’s like I didn’t attend school at all

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/s...was-wasted.html

golden · Aug 11, 2010

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check that place out

Perseid · Aug 11, 2010

golden said:
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check that place out

You mean the college? or the strip club?

Maz7006 · Aug 11, 2010

Perseid said:
golden said:

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check that place out

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You mean the college? or the strip club?

I'd go for a bit of both.

MelodieOctavia · Aug 11, 2010

lol..when you see it plastered across your TV screen every hour of every day you come to realize that the market is severely flooded with "game developers"

Frozen_Fish · Aug 11, 2010

That's why you don't go for 'degrees' that actually have the word Game in them, she should have gone for a computer science degree, then not only would she have been qualified to design games, she would be qualified for a lot of other jobs and wouldn't have gotten stuck stripping.

redact · Aug 11, 2010

that's why i picked business stream over games stream

no getting stuck designing forklift simulations for mining companies

Wabsta · Aug 11, 2010

And this is the reason I do Application Programming/engineering, instead of game design.

Raika · Aug 11, 2010

That sucks, she just fucked up her life. I'm sure that there would be plenty of other opportunities if she tried harder...

GeekyGuy · Aug 11, 2010

Slow news day? You just described about 95 percent of college grads.

Paarish · Aug 11, 2010

This is exactly why Im decided to go into Animation instead VG Arts

Guild McCommunist · Aug 11, 2010

I can't wait for the new Pole Position game from her studio.

Oh wait...

DarkRey · Aug 11, 2010

golden said:
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check that place out

i will be right behind you....

nutella · Aug 11, 2010

Frozen_Fish said:
That's why you don't go for 'degrees' that actually have the word Game in them, she should have gone for a computer science degree, then not only would she have been qualified to design games, she would be qualified for a lot of other jobs and wouldn't have gotten stuck stripping.

Yep. That's what I plan to do. Just hope I get the ATAR (that's 90+ btw).

Wish me luck.

Ziggy Zigzagoon · Aug 11, 2010

What a sad ending... albeit slightly tragic-comic.

(Of course, I just went for general computer science, since I want to aid others, not just make games. Sure, making games is an aid, but I am thinking more widely.)

I wonder how many new visits Lido Cabaret will get now that this news is out?

Rock Raiyu · Aug 11, 2010

Frozen_Fish said:
That's why you don't go for 'degrees' that actually have the word Game in them, she should have gone for a computer science degree, then not only would she have been qualified to design games, she would be qualified for a lot of other jobs and wouldn't have gotten stuck stripping.

This is exactly what I did. I enrolled at my college as a game design/development major but when I went to register for my classes, I signed up for classes so I can get a Computer Science degree because I could still develop games AND I'd have something to back me up in case it doesn't go well for me. Cause with a CS degree, you can pretty much do anything that is related to computers.

MelodieOctavia · Aug 11, 2010

Guild McCommunist said:
I can't wait for the new Pole Position game from her studio.

Oh wait...

BAHhahahahaha! I just shot Risotto out of my nose. You win this thread.

Cablephish · Aug 11, 2010

I should go to that college to check out the prospects.

Canonbeat234 · Aug 11, 2010

Tough, that what happens when you have a few college students who thinks its easy to get a job. That's why getting something like a editor, engineering, computers, electronics is a wise investment

MelodieOctavia · Aug 11, 2010

Canonbeat234 said:
Tough, that what happens when you have a few college students who thinks its easy to get a job. That's why getting something like a editor, engineering, computers, electronics is a wise investment

Computers, yes. Computer Repair...a fucking waste of money I tells ya.

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