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Oct. 8, 2010 2:53 p.m. EricM Dork

So, my son is a senior in high school. He signed up for a class that helps repare you for a career later on in life (it has an acronym but I can't remember it). Anyway, he wants to be a programmer, and specifically a game programmer.

He just got an internship at Volition here in town.

I will save you the time of googling it. volition made "Red Faction" for the Xbox and many other titles.

SO, here I sit at my very corporate job at the University and he will be job shadowing a programmer working on a project that I am not even allowed to know about (he signed a NDA). Gesh.

by the way, I am very proud of him.
Oct. 8, 2010 2:57 p.m. mndsm Dork

Wow man, good for you. When I was 17, I sure as hell wasn't thinking about school.
Oct. 8, 2010 3:47 p.m. mtn SuperDork

One of the guys at Volition is also one of the fastest local autocrossers, Nick O if you know him.
Oct. 8, 2010 3:57 p.m. EricM Dork

mtn wrote:

One of the guys at Volition is also one of the fastest local autocrossers, Nick O if you know him.

I do ;-)
Oct. 8, 2010 4:34 p.m. pigeon Dork

EricM wrote:

mtn wrote:

One of the guys at Volition is also one of the fastest local autocrossers, Nick O if you know him.

I do ;-)

Something tells me that fact and the internship weren't happy coincidences... IMHO 90% of success in life is who you know.
Oct. 8, 2010 10:53 p.m. EricM Dork

pigeon wrote:

EricM wrote:

mtn wrote:

One of the guys at Volition is also one of the fastest local autocrossers, Nick O if you know him.

I do ;-)

Something tells me that fact and the internship weren't happy coincidences... IMHO 90% of success in life is who you know.

Actually it was all my son's doing. Nick didn't even know they had interns at his work. The wink was for something else. Not creepy something else, just something else.
Oct. 8, 2010 10:58 p.m. Taiden Reader

Wow, that is awesome. You must be proud. A little emasculated, but proud nonetheless. Maybe not emasculated, but I think I would feel a little in your position. Kind of a weird situation. Not a bad one by any means, but kinda puts you back in your seat a little.
Oct. 9, 2010 6:33 a.m. 2.0dohc Reader

When did your kids get that old?????

Seems like just last week we were replacing that leaky fuel line on the escort gt.....

just remember the more he makes the better the old folks home he can afford
Oct. 9, 2010 9:23 a.m. EricM Dork

2.0dohc wrote:

When did your kids get that old?????

Seems like just last week we were replacing that leaky fuel line on the escort gt.....

just remember the more he makes the better the old folks home he can afford

time flies, i remember when you didn't have any kids :-)