Jareds Job

Well, today it is official that EA has bought Headgate Studio's; the company Jared currently works for. Read all about it by clicking here. This brought about a few interesting changes for us.

First of all, Jared and I didn't feel right about signing some of the contracts they wanted him to sign (considering he runs a game company on the side). They wanted him to quit working Dracosoft, and they weren't willing to compensate him for what he was giving up. This forced us to have to resign from the company. However, they were in such desperate need of his skills that they agreed to hire him on as a part-time contract employee.

Here are the pro's and con's of this arrangement:

Pros

• Jared gets to continue working Dracosoft
• Jared gets more time to work Dracosoft, allowing more opportunities to make money
• Jared still has a job for the holidays

Cons

• We have to pay our own taxes and health insurance
• It is only part-time and comes to an end in January

So, hopefully in the meantime, Jared can get Dracosoft going well enough, that we will be able to justify the fact he is only working part-time. Also, we have two companies who said they will get back to us with offers in January. Hopefully one of them makes us an offer we can't refuse.

Such is the life of working in the video game industry. This has happened at almost every video game company he has worked at.