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Hello, at the moment I have been trying to find the correct academic label for desired studies and work. I initially structured my studies around entering animated entertainment and just wanted to focus on becoming a production animator, however I found I was also very interested in the underlying science that allows the technology for animation to be possible.
Most people said at least a surface level and beyond study could be obtained on the job, so I believed a major in one of the aspects of animation technology (optics, computer science/ computer engineering, chemistry) would be an overkill if I could only have one job at a time, and I have no clue what industrial science/research is like, I may not be free to just play around with theory so if I have to meet a quota and produce a product more so than research freely beyond application, I would just try and stick to research for something I'm interested in creating. But there's no program or path I have seen that advertises learning a science major for a path in entertainment technology.
What would be recommended for someone who doesn't know which path to fit their questions/interests into? The main conflict behind this is that I don't know what industry is truly like until I get there, but at that point I am just putting my interests into a career path through a guess. How do you manage this? And how do you get more specific information about an industry, if any at all?
The last addition might be preparing confrontational skills rather than the assumption of complacency. Rather I get turned off by more 'necessary' services out of fear of being put into a complacent industrial/commercial position that would make me feel guilty for not saying something just to keep my job.
I'm also worried about more uncontrollable and academically irrelevant factors such as whether I'll have time outside of work or be overworked, be paid we'll or not, all things I can't predict and can only prepare to address as they come, as we can't jump ship to a new career path each time obstacles occur. I'm just not sure how to realize this and not think "I have to make the most accurate decision now or else I'm going to be trapped and not be able to say anything."
Most people said at least a surface level and beyond study could be obtained on the job, so I believed a major in one of the aspects of animation technology (optics, computer science/ computer engineering, chemistry) would be an overkill if I could only have one job at a time, and I have no clue what industrial science/research is like, I may not be free to just play around with theory so if I have to meet a quota and produce a product more so than research freely beyond application, I would just try and stick to research for something I'm interested in creating. But there's no program or path I have seen that advertises learning a science major for a path in entertainment technology.
What would be recommended for someone who doesn't know which path to fit their questions/interests into? The main conflict behind this is that I don't know what industry is truly like until I get there, but at that point I am just putting my interests into a career path through a guess. How do you manage this? And how do you get more specific information about an industry, if any at all?
The last addition might be preparing confrontational skills rather than the assumption of complacency. Rather I get turned off by more 'necessary' services out of fear of being put into a complacent industrial/commercial position that would make me feel guilty for not saying something just to keep my job.
I'm also worried about more uncontrollable and academically irrelevant factors such as whether I'll have time outside of work or be overworked, be paid we'll or not, all things I can't predict and can only prepare to address as they come, as we can't jump ship to a new career path each time obstacles occur. I'm just not sure how to realize this and not think "I have to make the most accurate decision now or else I'm going to be trapped and not be able to say anything."
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