Thread by @SheilahBirgen

Most of the DMs I have received are of people asking about the career and entrepreneurial opportunities in the gaming industry. Thanks for reaching out. For the benefit of all, (also coz the DMs are many 🙈😝) here is a thread on those Entrepreneurial&Career Opportunities.

Careers: There are 2 ways: game development side and playing side. For the development side: you can be an animator, music composer, designers, story/scriptwriter or developer, project manager/scrum master, all the other office, admin and operations roles can also apply here.

Playing side(I'll leave out pro players cz I feel they are entrepreneurs). Careers are mostly on the Esports side: Tournament host, coach/analyst, event and PR/marketing related jobs, community/social media manager, broadcast/production crew, Esports agent & the other admin roles

So for careers look at it as skills u'd require to build a game(different platforms ), skills u'll require to support a pro player or support skills you will require in working in any organization(Accounts, law, Comms, HR, Admin, Ops etc). It helps if u have an interest in gaming

Entrepreneurial side, there are several ways to do this. I will also talk about a few, probably low hanging fruits too.
You can be a pro e-sports player(this means, your full-time job is to play. You train just like athletes do, daily& long hours to improve your skills.)

You can also form a team so that you all train together. You will probably require a coach to help you. Pro Esports team compete in a number of tournaments per year. Here are the earnings of the top Esports team globally (guys make Millions of dollars)
esportsearnings.com/teams

Other Biz opportunities: Start a game development studio, gaming arcade(or training facility), become a team owner(yes like is in sports, u provide facilities& scout for opportunities), become a tournament organizer or open a company that does the support roles mentioned earlier.

The other(biggest) opportunity in gaming is content creation! You can become a streamer (mostly on Twitch or Youtube). So, u play&comment as pple we watch u online. The highest-paid gamers now are streamers, they earn millions of dollars. You can also become a game reviewer

For content creation, the opportunities are limitless... it depends on your creativity really. I will leave that at that.
The last opportunity(there are more but...) is in Merchandising. BTW this is the highest-grossing thing in gaming! (several opportunities there, go figure).