Legal Niches

From Game Developer Dreams to a Topless Reality

By james_fudge

Carrianne Howard had a dream: to design videogames for a living. That dream went awry when she realized that a degree she spent almost $70,000 on wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Now she's a stripper in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It sounds like the punch line to a joke, but Howard isn't laughing.

Howard dreamed of developing video games, so she enrolled in a program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit college partially owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. But after spending $70,000 on the degree she came to the conclusion that it was worthless. When she went to find a job with her diploma proudly in hand, she figured out that it meant nothing and that it wasn't recognized by most employers in the sector. Howard settled for a $12 an hour job recruiting employees for video game companies. She lost that job, which wasn't even close to what she was looking for, a year later when her department was shut down.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).