What was your first job?
TL;DRPeterson's first industry job was as a storyboard artist for a San Antonio production company before moving to 3D graphics and then QA at NCSoft.
My first job in the industry, I used to work in television and film. I was working at some production companies in San Antonio, Texas. I was working with, I don't know if you remember that guy, Jackie Earle Haley. He was in The Bad News Bears. He was Rorschach in Watchmen. He had a production company in San Antonio and I used to work for him. I was a storyboard artist. And then I transitioned over to 3D graphics after that. And then when Jackie got bigger into acting and everything, I decided to just jump into games because that's where my true passion lied. And then I got a job at NCSoft about seven years ago and I was working in QA, which was a good foot-in-the-door kind of job, which is also great because I learned the business from the ground up.
A lot of us got our start in QA. And, to be fair, we're all in QA anyway. Even though you start there, everybody QAs and goes forward.