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I'd apply. But I'm notoriously stupid.

It could be worth applying. I know I have had worse jobs before.

They only put this out for legal reasons - the vacancy will already be filled internally or through someone who knows someone, but they have to advertise.

Games Developers don't really write rules. They write background and story.

Howlingmoon wrote:

Triggerbaby wrote:Well, I am a technical writer. But I'm pretty sure that GW wouldn't enjoy my particular style of writing (i.e., referring to their core market as basement-dwelling fatty hamfarts, etc.)

So why exactly are you here again? Oh yea, because you're one of the mongrel trolls that's friends with the Mods. My bad.

Show me on this doll where the bad man touched you.

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Damn! I'm in the market for a creative writing job at any level anywhere in the U.K. right now. I've got a 1st class degree in English Literature and I've got previously published material on my CV. I'd love to apply for this but I'm due to leave my present job at the end of June and if I break contract and quit before that I won't get my plane ticket out of the country.

I can only hope the position isn't filled or that they try hiring again closer to June.

Apply now anyway.

Just don't tell them you have four months to go on your contract. Once they have decided they really want you and make you an offer, they can either buy out your contract or wait until you are free.

Most big companies take a few months to recruit a new person.

Janthkin wrote:I wish they could afford me. I think I'd enjoy a job like this.

I think alot of us are on that boat.

Triggerbaby wrote:Well, I am a technical writer. But I'm pretty sure that GW wouldn't enjoy my particular style of writing (i.e., referring to their core market as basement-dwelling fatty hamfarts, etc.)

What do you write? Maybe someone else can hire you, or we can band together and technically write our own game!

Howlingmoon wrote:

Triggerbaby wrote:Well, I am a technical writer. But I'm pretty sure that GW wouldn't enjoy my particular style of writing (i.e., referring to their core market as basement-dwelling fatty hamfarts, etc.)

So why exactly are you here again? Oh yea, because you're one of the mongrel trolls that's friends with the Mods. My bad.

Uhm...why are you here then?

Jazz is for Losers wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:

Triggerbaby wrote:Well, I am a technical writer. But I'm pretty sure that GW wouldn't enjoy my particular style of writing (i.e., referring to their core market as basement-dwelling fatty hamfarts, etc.)

So why exactly are you here again? Oh yea, because you're one of the mongrel trolls that's friends with the Mods. My bad.

Show me on this doll where the bad man touched you.

Modquisition on.
Enough of that. His post is being dealt with. Move on.

@ torgorch why do you have to advertise a job thats already filled.. seems redundant even for bureaucracy..

There's no law that requires companies to advertise externally.

Many companies try to fill vacancies by internal promotion. Naturally, if successful it leads to a vacancy lower down the ladder, which needs to be advertised.

Once upon a time I would have loved a GW studio job.

But I'm not sure I could work with the people who sculpt the razorgor, or write rules like those for Dark Angels or WHFB daemons because this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers.

Also looks like you no longer have to be best friends with a head designer to get a job in the studio.

Shaman wrote:@ torgorch why do you have to advertise a job thats already filled.. seems redundant even for bureaucracy..

Beats me, although GW aren't the only place that does it. As I have no understanding of the whys or wherefores, I'll blame the lawyers.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:... because this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers.

Excellent.

They should harvest Phil Kelly's geneseed and clone him. An entire chapter of creative game designers....

On a serious note, someone guesstimated it at 30k/year? I thought the living costs there were rather prohibitive, 30k/year doesn't seem like much.

30K a year there is just enough to be able to live in a van down by the river.

torgoch wrote:They only put this out for legal reasons - the vacancy will already be filled internally or through someone who knows someone, but they have to advertise.

Maybe for government jobs, yeah. But as a company they can do what they like.

30k a year is higher then the average working class wage I belive, even more so since it's not London and living costs are much cheaper for the rest of the country.
I get about 22 a year and am maintaing a two bed flat to myself just outside london so 30k would get significantly more then a van down by the river.

Of course that depends on whether you meant it as dollars or pounds, I'm thinking in the latter of course.

Sounds cool, but I wouldn't want to move to the U.K.

I was meaning USD. 30K in USD is 19,252.32 GBP. After taxes all I think I could afford then is a van down by the river.

In dollars, yeah a lot less but still enough money to live on as long as you don't have extravagant tastes.

Gargskull wrote:In dollars, yeah a lot less but still enough money to live on as long as you don't have extravagant tastes.

Like...playing 40k?

This 30k pounds, right?

Edited for stupid

He's saying government vacancies may have to be publicly advertised, whereas private jobs don't.

Janthkin wrote:

Gargskull wrote:In dollars, yeah a lot less but still enough money to live on as long as you don't have extravagant tastes.

Like...playing 40k?

Hah, nicely played. That is one aspect we haven't figured in; Benefits. I'm sure 45% off GW products could equate into an additional 5k a year for some .

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Janthkin wrote:

Gargskull wrote:In dollars, yeah a lot less but still enough money to live on as long as you don't have extravagant tastes.

Like...playing 40k?

Hah, nicely played. That is one aspect we haven't figured in; Benefits. I'm sure 45% off GW products could equate into an additional 5k a year for some .

I'm not so sure - if I had access to that sort of discount, I would probably end up spending even more, rather perversely.

Games Workshop is looking for a hard-working, writer who can work within our established style...

Well, they certainly need someone with a high standard of written English. They can't even get a job description gramatically correct.

ArbitorIan:

You are aware of the difference between grammar and style, right?

Nurglitch wrote:ArbitorIan:

You are aware of the difference between grammar and style, right?

GWAdvert wrote:Games Workshop is looking for a hard-working, writer who can work within our established style and wants to learn the art of being a great Games Workshop Games Developer.

I'd say that was gramatically incorrect right there. The poor, abused common or garden comma.

Would this require that I move to the UK? If so I can't really apply.

filbert wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Janthkin wrote:

Gargskull wrote:In dollars, yeah a lot less but still enough money to live on as long as you don't have extravagant tastes.

Like...playing 40k?

Hah, nicely played. That is one aspect we haven't figured in; Benefits. I'm sure 45% off GW products could equate into an additional 5k a year for some .

I'm not so sure - if I had access to that sort of discount, I would probably end up spending even more, rather perversely.

I would buy more too, then sell it for 25% off retail, thus making profit from my job.

Probably get fired for the very same reason.

filbert wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:ArbitorIan:

You are aware of the difference between grammar and style, right?

GWAdvert wrote:Games Workshop is looking for a hard-working, writer who can work within our established style and wants to learn the art of being a great Games Workshop Games Developer.

I'd say that was gramatically incorrect right there. The poor, abused common or garden comma.

I find this, ironic.