Journal Journal: When Playing Games Pays
There must be many stories similar to this one. Taking into consideration all the IT type people that read /. I'm interested to hear what these professionals think of this type of experience. Does it benefit an up-and-coming IT professional or is it a justification for a waste of time?
"Hutchens, 23, is a 2002 graduate of Traverse Bay Area Career-Tech Center. He's also one of a handful of locals who have plugged into success in the information technology field on the laurels of an annual Local Area Network (LAN) party called FragFest.
Started in 2002, FragFest is gathering of local video gamers who show up with a modified computer, plug into an ad hoc network sprawling over folding tables in the Civic Center's Howe Arena and spend the weekend immersed in virtual combat.
Far from slothy kids with excess free time, the party founders have found plush jobs as IT professionals locally and around the country. One runs his own Chicago consulting business at 23; another is the computer guru at Aurora Oil & Gas Corp. in Traverse City.
The big name on their resumes: FragFest." http://www.fragfest.cx/
Read the whole story at http://www.record-eagle.com/2007/may/29frag.htm/
"Hutchens, 23, is a 2002 graduate of Traverse Bay Area Career-Tech Center. He's also one of a handful of locals who have plugged into success in the information technology field on the laurels of an annual Local Area Network (LAN) party called FragFest.
Started in 2002, FragFest is gathering of local video gamers who show up with a modified computer, plug into an ad hoc network sprawling over folding tables in the Civic Center's Howe Arena and spend the weekend immersed in virtual combat.
Far from slothy kids with excess free time, the party founders have found plush jobs as IT professionals locally and around the country. One runs his own Chicago consulting business at 23; another is the computer guru at Aurora Oil & Gas Corp. in Traverse City.
The big name on their resumes: FragFest." http://www.fragfest.cx/
Read the whole story at http://www.record-eagle.com/2007/may/29frag.htm/
