Games Developers in Banking

Although this is not the happiest time in banking, however bad a quant developer may see this market, at least they are not a games developer. The witless arts graduates on the BBC happily parrot the Games Industry line that there is a "shortage" of the right sort of graduate. BBC correspondents regularly struggle to even pronounce technical terms correctly, much less understand them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7460870.stm

Slashdot has conversations which illustrate the real problem.
Money
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/1719206

The skills for quant development and games are actually very similar. C++, applied maths/physics and bloody minded determination. FPGA, GPU, and PPU are beginning to make their way into banks as well for high end processing.
Although the hours at many banks can be tough, they are almost all lower than in video games development. You are however safe from your job being offshored to India because Indians will not work for such low wages.
You can see that as good or bad.
EA Games, like several other games manufacturers has actually been prosecuted under minimum wage laws.
If you are a games developer, and wish to move to a job where you are at least occasionally treated with respect and paid more than a shelf filler in a supermarket, feel free to get in touch.