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10-21-2010

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Possible Career Paths

I've read through a couple of forum posts on Career issues but wanted to get some feedback that may be more personalized and whatnot.

I am brand new to the world of UNIX and Linux and while I am finding the learning curve rather steep, I find it highly rewarding and am overall enjoying the experience. I am currently self-learning UNIX/Linux for a part-time "internship" at a College's High Performance Computing Center and am beginning to get interested in what is possible with UNIX and Linux.
I am also a Computer Science Major with other ideas for careers that may be a little off-topic from this site but maybe some people may know some things.

Anyways, I was wondering what Careers there are involving UNIX and/or Linux and what they may require. I'm not looking for anything to in-depth right now...just a SIMPLE explanation of a few careers and jobs available.

Also, I first got into Computer Science with the idea of eventually possibly going into Video Games (this is where I go off-topic a lil, but maybe someone will know some stuff). I know that video game programming isn't necessarily where the money is what but I figure if it's something I love then I wouldn't mind...Anyways, if anyone knows or has insight to the industry some info might be helpful ;-) like, what are some of the jobs and what they entail? what programming languages are typically used in the industry? what do companies look for?

Thanks in advance!

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       Childsplay  is a suite of educational games for young children.	It's a plugin system, so childsplay is basically a framework where you put
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