What it is like to play all day long?
Many of you, hardcore gamers, will probably think this is a stupid title for a blog entry, since we are all gamers,and we all know how it is to play a lot! But I’m writing it for a different reason. Let’s reformulate the question: “What it is like to REALLY play all day long?”
Probably not many people out there knows that I’m living in Germany again. It was a while ago since I moved to Bremen, had my own story over there and finally (around three years ago), I decided to go back to Spain. Before my move to Bremen, I was radio moderator but the day I was back I felt like doing something different and so I’ve been working in different places. One of my favourite jobs was at schools. Never thought I would like teaching that much. I enjoyed every minute with the kids and at the end they’ve teached me a lot more. They were my energy, my day by day, my reason to move. Actually it was a way of rediscovering life. I know it sounds crazy but it did provoque a change on me in a very positive way. My main goal was to become a better professional, do courses, study another degree, etc. But you never know what will destiny bring next…
I’ve never seen myself growing in a traditional way. That means… I’m not the kind of girl that goes to school, then to university, then starts a relation, gets a work, then gets married, gets a better work, have babies and that’s it forever. I think life is too short to just follow the path everyone follows. That’s absolutly boring and there’s surelly much more to discover in that very short time we all have. So, because of that, I’m always ready for new challenges, always learning new things, enjoying different places and discovering new feelings…
It was April this year and I decided to use my 10 days of vacation somewhere else. Yea I know, teaching is nice but can also burn you down hehe I so needed a break from the classes so I bought a flight to Germany. I was supposed to go for a bootcamp but at the end the whole thing got cancelled and I just met a friend. I’ve never been in Frankfurt before so I was sure it was going to be fun. I really had a good time but two days before flying back to Spain, I had a talk with an old friend. He was a top Quake player in Spain years ago and suddenly he was there, talking to me again. We didn’t speak for the last 5 years at least, but I knew he was living and working in Germany. After our short talk, he told me he was actually working in Frankfurt and I told him we could maybe meet. At the same time he told me that where he was working, they were looking for a native Spanish employee and that I could apply. My first answer was like “are you kidding?” but after a while he told me that why not? why not giving it a try? I could just do the interview and the language test and then I could think about it. Of course I didn’t expect taking that serious but I thought it was a cool idea to have an interview in Germany for such a big company like Nintendo.
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