Video game design/development is always something that I've wanted to do with my life, it's been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember to try and land an internship or a QA testing job, and work my way up the industry ladder and eventually get a job developing my own concepts and creations on a major AAA console tittle and/or pc. I will try to keep this story short for all intents and purposes but I would appreciate any sort of insight from anyone who is either in the industry, or has some sort of experience from the industry, or anyone who knows anyone tthereof I'd like to know for one if it's reasonably feasible for me to chase my dream here, and if the industry is all it's actually cracked up to be after all... as I've heard that in some careers you don't actually have a life outside of work and end up spending 60-100 hours a week at the studio office developing and working for meiger pay ( although if that leads to other horizons I'd be willing to make sacrafices). The name is Rob and I'm 23, currently in between jobs and have some job experience that I must first admit has nothing at all to do with video game design, don't have any coding knowledge and not familiary with production power houses like Mya/3d Max or others. Although I have done some freelance game moding, such as weapon, level, level prop, and character mod's for games like halo and half life and I'm a life long passionate gamer. I tried attending ITT Technical institute for a tech program, but found out that credits almost never transfer, there educational facilities were very underpar at times, and also found that they wanted BOOKOO tuition for what they were offering. So now in my life I'm sittting here in between jobs, in debt to the department of education among other student loan lending organizations, and I'm basically stuck and almost shit outta luck. Is it worth going back to school and is it really truly worth it if/when I get there to go to the great lengths I'll need to to get skills for game designing?