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As an example of what a non game development software team can be like - I work for a state government. We develop our own in house software. I'm a business analyst - I gather requirements and write out software specs. It is not games, it is very boring custom business software used various state governments and universities. I work from 8AM to 5PM most days. My job permanently moved to work from home this last year. I am salaried, so I have unlimited break time. I like my boss. All the guys in my department are married with kids, and they're respectful of me and the other woman in the team. Everyone works hard, but no one really does more or less work than the others since we all have our own little bubbles. And I'm paid quite well for the area, although I'd definitely make more working for a private company. In exchange for less pay though, I've got vacation hours coming out of my ears, so my stress levels are pretty low these days.
Everyone wants to go into video games because it's dream job and they're passionate about doing it, but the result is a labor glut and a culture of exploitation. I'm a lot happier working on business software and having the time to play and enjoy video games, than I would be working on video games and ending up hating them.
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Damn, even here I STILL can't escape the WoW lawsuit posts.
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And as was said in another post there are many businesses who subscribe to the good old boy culture. I'm sorry if that sounds cliche and I'm not trying to insult anyone. From my own perspective I was in middle management it's where many women end up. Usually the top managers are men and those women who do make it to upper unless the president of the company is a women will have a hard time. Because many of those men golf together or go out for drinks or see a sporting event. I have seen this time and time again. Watched women who were my boss passed over for promo or an award because they were not friends with the company president or CEO. It still happens the attitude can be awful. One of my co workers called me his work wife, I was like wtf, the he proceeded to tell me the person who had my job prior Christmas shopped for him for his wife and asked me if I would do that too. Needless to say what I said I won't repeat, but he didn't ask again.