parker’s desk

With the com­ple­tion of this site (finally) comes the end of a very ack­ward period in my life.  It was a lot of work get­ting the port­fo­lio put the together, as I’ve said before I really had not planned on start­ing work on a port­fo­lio web­site for at least another year or more.

Need­less to say, my first piece of advice I’m going to give any­one inter­ested in get­ting into the indus­try as a Game Artist…always, always, always have a port­fo­lio website!

That said, I’ve been putting in appli­ca­tions through­out the week and have been extremely sur­prised by how many replies I’ve received.  I planned on stag­ger­ing my appli­ca­tion process on a weekly basis, apply­ing the first week at places I would really want to work for and going on down from there.  If this week has been any indi­ca­tion, my chances of work­ing some­hwere I want to work at are pretty high!

It takes a lot of time putting all of the appli­ca­tions in, it doesn’t feel right to me to sim­ply copy and paste the exact same cover let­ter to each prospec­tive employer so I write each indi­vid­ual one out.  I’ll prob­a­bly resort to copy & past­ing with tweaks later on though, haha!

We’re hop­ing to relo­cate from Wis­con­sin to the Austin, Texas area the most.  Every­thing I’ve heard about it from my peers has been extremely pos­i­tive, and Kelly found out there are two roller derby leagues in that city alone she could poten­tially get onto.  Cost of liv­ing isn’t much more than the cur­rent area we’re in (accord­ing to some gov­ern­ment web­site dealy) either.

Also applied in Ari­zona and Cal­i­for­nia.  We’re both orig­i­nally from Cal­i­for­nia, which would be cool to go back there but the cost of liv­ing is kind of a turn-off for us.  Based on replies there are a cou­ple oppor­tu­ni­ties out there, though.

So…yes, I remain quite opti­mistic and hopeful.

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