Welcome to Leave Money, a resource for gamers seeking employment!
Leave Money began life as a concept for a new media project in a graduate-level technology and rhetoric colloquium. The task set was to make a project that can use technological resources to teach students something about the ways that mastery of modern digital rhetoric can improve their lives in this new millenium. As an English major, I am most likely going to be in the job market for a long time: what if that time could be spent playing games to pay the bills rather than engaging in some mind-numbing minimum wage job?
A resource to help college graduates capitalize on the gaming skills they have spent years developing is in order. As a freshman writing instructor, I have encountered a number of students who are able to game competitively (often engendering sponsorship deals), gamble, or engage in virtual barter if not enough to pay for school, then enough to ensure they are not paying for their gaming habit out of their student loans. Are there electives these students should take that will be helpful in sharpening their game skills? Are there discursive techniques these students should practice to make them more efficient communicators in the teamwork that is often a requirement for success in eSports?
Leave Money looks to a possible future where students are provided scholarships from the game industry for the prowess and dedication to skill building they display, just as athletes and artists are. As a teacher and a man handed an Atari contoller at birth, I want to show students that pro-gaming is as a legitimate career choice as any other.
