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		incision on April 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'll never work on First-Person Shooters again >How fucked up is an industry where saying "I don't want to work on [X]" makes you unemployable? While I don't agree with the mentality, having your work dictated to some degree by your industry isn't terribly unusual. How far would a sysadmin who says "I don't want to work on Linux" get in the world of web startups?

michaelochurch on April 20, 2013 [–]

We're talking past each other, insofar as I was interpreting him as making a CLM by saying he didn't like first-person-shooters, not choosing not to work on them. Maybe I misinterpreted what he was saying.

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