Success in getting a job

[CodingRook]

No, age was not a factor for me. I am > 40. See my post:

How I got my first job in game development! Thank you GameDev.tv!

I hope this can serve as motivation and inspiration to others. I also hope this is in the appropriate thread, moderators or whomever appropriate, please feel free to forward/move to other areas of this community, so more people can see. After 18 months (more or less) of really digging deep into UE4 and C++ I got my first job as a junior game programmer. It all started with Ben’s Unreal Engine with C++ course. He and Sam did a wonderful job. I admit I had some earlier comp sci background but had…