Via Pablo Marques, here’s a inspiring video: Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek (one of my favorite persons ever, half of the old but hilarious Old Man Murray website) on How to give yourself a job in the games industry:
Despite the title, the video is not just about the game industry – in a nutshell, it’s about how people working in a creative industry should be self-reliant, and how things don’t normally fall from the sky on your lap.
Go and do cool shit. You’ll have fun, learn, and be notice and probably get a job doing what you like.