I don't work in games. Never been a big gamer, allergic to C and Windows, got lucky out of college with a job that wasn't ultimately about making rich assholes richer. A lot of guys I went to school with went into games though, and every one of them studied computer science not because they were interesting in computing itself or because they enjoyed programming in general, but because they wanted to work in games. Most of them burned out and went on to do anything that didn't involve programming. These are guys who did theoretically-4-more-like-5 years in a hard computer science program to get there, they were all plenty motivated and plenty disciplined, and the industry still burned them out. It can do that, because more like them graduate every year. So yeah, "don't work in an industry that treats you like shit", but it's still a cruel thing.