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retail and and then I went around
about way working in a hospital in shops

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I played games forever
and I got a job at game working in

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all got started

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advert I just thought actually yeah that
would be really cool so that's how it

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could go to university and come back and
start our own company and once I saw the

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my friends you know how cool would it be
to join the games industry maybe we

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programming course and it was something
that I've always been talking about with

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didn't get accepted in and then I saw an
advert in a paper for a games

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It was kind of an accident to be honest I was meant
to be doing a course in robotics but I

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the time it's more important who you are
than what your skillset is

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in interviews and conducting interviews
is be honest and be yourself a lot of

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great and one of the things that I've
really learned over the years from being

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off and hope that I heard something back
I eventually got an interview which was

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letter
stick in an envelope address it send it

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on through companies websites so I had
to print off my CV print off cover

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that I could find
and this was back before you could apply

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Applied to every games company

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and eventually someone decided to pay me
to do it

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just kept working on my portfolio and I
kept trying to just do environment art

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arts I'm fully self-taught and then
eventually I worked making assets for

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the Unreal marketplace and then I
started working as an outsourcer and I

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for film TV and stuff and while I was
doing that I trained up myself in 3d

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and I've always been obsessed with films
so I started doing storyboard art film

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really quickly we did loads of Natural
History stuff so I was always drawing

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I went university and studied as a
marine biologist and then I quit that

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games but it turned out that I sort of
walked in the office I was like my

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people I had no idea this is where you
all were

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talking about I'm a single player you
know I've always played single-player

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I've never played an MMO before nor have
I done QA I don't know what you're

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he says my company's making Lord of the
Rings Online and we could use somebody

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who is in QA who knows about the lore
and could be our lore monkey and I said

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Boston and said didn't you take a
Tolkien class in college I was like yep

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University and a good friend of mine was
working at a company named turbine near

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yeah started like a week later

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I studied creative writing in history in

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my favorite game and yeah give me a shot
luckily lucked out got the interview and

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kind of handed him with questions like
hey I'd love to work on Gears it's like

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let's throw my CV that way if I found
the lead tester on LinkedIn and I just

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the computer games Tech degree so that
was kind of relevant and then yeah upon

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previous gears and it was kind of just
like a potluck chance of just try let's

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graduating I knew that Splash Damage were
working on on Gears or had worked on the

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lot of early mornings I ended up playing
that throughout my like my university

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played a lot of gears as a kid much to
my parents dismay a lot of late nights a

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I ended up coming in through through
competitive gaming through our eSports I

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skills that I kind of picked up along
the way and then just applied for it I

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didn't think I was gonna be qualified
for it but still here still going yeah I got it

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working in PR and then saw a job at
Splash that kind of ticked off a bunch of