i live in NY and went to the parade 2 years ago. i saw this guy dressed as a hunchack and he was sitting down and drunk. he got up and fell on his back and he couldnt get back up lol

We control your money!! Muahahahahahahacarrot-cake

when i work im going to advise lthe developers to not include a portion of a game and make them DLCs even though theyre already in the disc, so the company gets more profit.

wassup???

:D :D

I think you will get more meaningful and helpful feedback from finance professionals who are actually working in the industry. Leverage your past internship and talk with the people/supervisors you worked with. Ask them about their career paths, about how they got into the industry. Ask them for other contacts who may be able to give you advice. Then set up informational interviews with those people. In other words, network.

One question you should definitely ask is whether it would be beneficial to get IB experience first. There's a certain cache attached to having a well-known IB firm listed on your resume. Plus, you will find that many professionals in the C suite come from IB or "Big Four" global CPA firm backgrounds.

You may also consider consulting with placement professionals, i.e., headhunters. Robert Half is a national placement company specializing in recruiting fiancne and accounting professionals. However, there are other recruiting companies out there, some better than Robert Half. I suggest finding an executive recruiter who sub-specializes in the industries with which you are interested.

Lastly, even though you are skeptical about your college's career center, you should still check that out. You never know. Even if they can't help you out, they may be able to point you to people or resources who can. You paid for the services offered at the career center with your college tuition. You should take advantage of it.

Good luck!

sogni_belli

thanks a lot! i will definitely check my school's career center. the thing with networking, i've attended internship fairs in my school and im also in a finance society that is run by alumnis that are succesful. the alumnis work in the big IB firms; and the internship fairs i attend are full of IB firms and other companies that are not related to entertainment. for some reason, i get a feeling that if i ask people who work in IB about their thoughts on the entertainment industry, theyll give me the cold shoulder and look down on me. im sure they would like, laugh inside when i mention the video game industry especially.

but you know what, its what im passionate about so whatever ill just ask them straight up.

also about headhunters; haha i interned over the summer in a recruitment firm for hedgefunds. god it was not fun. the lying i had to do just to get people to give up their employment information defeated me. it was crazy that i quit after 90 days. so so not fun; but on the other side, im sure theyll be helpful in supplying me with opportunities.

thanks a lot! cdrom and sogni_belli! :) very helpful advice!

hey guys,

so i just want to know what your thoughts are on a position i decided to take

so, im a junior at college and also a finance major. i've always loved movies and video games. i love the entertainment industry. in fact i interned at the weinstein company (used to be miramax) last year and loved it! i worked in the finance department and somewhat learned about film finance. the project the company was tackling last year was "The Inglorious Basterds". i had to look at box office trends for historical fiction films within a specfic time frame; then look at how much brad pitt makes on average in the last couple of years.

but anyway, thats most of what i do in the internship and the data i take is organized by my boss; who then brings everything to the CFO. my boss tells me that the CFO does risk analysis and other stuff.

so yeah, what do you guys think of this? the main reason im asking for feedbacks and your thoughts is because i dont know where to start or what to really do to get a start into those industries! lol. i mean, most people expect finance graduates to go top IB firms; but im just not intersted in those things. i want to apply my work to the video game/movie heck maybe music industry.

I thought about going to the career center in my school and ask for counseling but I DOUBT they would be any helpful; so any thoughts, feedbacks are welcomed guys! :)

thanks!!! :D *im really hyper because ive finally realized what i want to do, and it feels good :)

PS. please excuse the typos, and I live in NY. i dont know if geography plays a huge role? maybe most HQs are located in the west?

forget dead space, get doom 3 for the xbox! sure its an original xbox game, but its such a keeper.

the graphics are pretty damn good too for an xbox game. its an intense game, youll have to pause after completing a level or an intense encounter with a monster. i didnt do that once with dead space

check out the youtube videos

for this year:

1) Fallout new vegas

2) The sims 3 for consoles

ive always loved video games. its my main form of entertainment, and i dont ever get bored of it because i rarely have the time to actually play video games. so when i do get time to play my 360 online im always pumped up.

but currently my main game which i also happen to think is the best FPS ever is Bad company 2.

well recently i took a break and now im playing bayonetta. once im done with that ill probably go to mass effect 2 and try all the dlcs.

i have so much in my backlog

red dead, arkham asylum goty edition, fable 2, prototype, force unleashed, conviction and dragons age

then im getting fallout new vegas, sims 3 AND possibly fable 3. so... yeah idk i doubt ill get bored since i have new games to look forward to, and theyll be right on the shelf next to me :D

i think its great to be a video gamer who dont have time to play. because you dont get bored. and i consider myself a gamer because i grew up spending so much time playing games but now other priorities take over :D

Oblivion, borderlands and far cry 2

oblivion is impossible in the hardest difficulty (i only play games on hardest, and sometimes give up if its TOO hard :P)

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]had a gears marathon with a friend, played for 12 hours straight, stayed as cool as a cucumber (well maybe not that cool, but it didnt overheat)Overlord93

LOL

only fallout new vegas the collectors edition

i can get reach for free via trainn.org since i completed the requirements, but i think im going to save the credit for the sims 3 for xbox