EVE General Discussion

Depending on your skillset you might be able to get a remotejob, one of my former teachers, a concept artist, worked for CCP for a while.

Initially he lived on Iceland for a while, but later on he returned to Denmark and continued his work from his apartment.

t'was this dude: www.conceptartist.dk

accept my isd application

At what stage in the two years between jobs was that?

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Don't know, rest of GA considers Atlanta alien, too.

But can't knock the cost of living; the availability of jobs, nor 2hrs from the mountains/Atlanta or the Atlantic Ocean...or where I live, the best golf in the world. ;)

Yup, confirming that ISD volunteers aren't paid.

There are perks to the job of course, but you'll have to join to find out about that :)

It's also true that having a history in ISD is no bad thing when coming to try to get a job at CCP.

ISD isn't about the rewards though, other than the reward of knowing that you're helping your favorite game to run smoothly, and in my case being a part of our great community <3

seems a certain part of our community consists of misogynic, puritanic envious dickheads.

I'd move to Iceland, if i got a job offer from CCP, or any other game company out there, i'd be ready to move tomorrow.

Iceland is an awesome place, glaciers, geysers, volcanoes, hot springs, snow, skiing, etc etc, whats not to like?

This is coming from someone that's worked (and lived) in 4 different countries over the past 15 years.

1) Serious companies offer complete relo packages for important positions in their organizations (managers, directors and so on)
2) Serious companies offer a large % of relo costs for not-so-key positions in their organizations (entry level staff, junior managers)
3) The "NASA" word in your CV is a very serious one and must be reflected by the way you talk, you dress, you present yourself. Otherwise, it will work completely against you and will make you look like a fail-hire.
4) In the event that you do land an offer which does not contain a relocation package, do what you can to put together some money that will allow you to travel to your destination and find a cheap place to stay. You could even share. During the course of the next 6 months that you will be getting paid, you should be able to move to an apartment/house that falls within your standards and requirements.

Not answering job posts on the basis that relo is not in the package is a huge mistake imho, because after 6 months to a year this "rough" patch you had been through will be gone, and you will have a job and you will be building up your career.

The far north is fine if you grew up there (I did) but people moving there REALLY struggle with winter (lack of daylight) and a lot of people have problems in summer (too much daylight).

Even people who've lived there all their lives can go loonytunes in winter. At least in summer you can use blinds to block the light.

Iceland also has some issues for people used to even small cities - the population centres in Iceland are tiny compared to other places.

Nice enough place but its bound to come as a shock to many :)