In 2019, Jarvs Tasker was forced to give up her teaching career due to chronic illness when she was just 28. <\/p>\n
Fast forward seven years, and she earns double her former annual salary, running Jarvs Indie Insights, which provides communication and marketing within the gaming industry. <\/p>\n
She visited the University of Suffolk’s e-sport building in Ipswich to celebrate independent game developers and studios on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“I can comfortably say it probably would have taken me about 20 years in teaching to earn what I make now,” she said.<\/p>\n
When Tasker left teaching, she initially started volunteering for PlayStation’s YouTube channel, but she said there was lots of crossover between the two industries.<\/p>\n
“Managing a community is very similar to managing a class of kids, so there’s a lot of crossover skills there, but actually, video games is one of those industries where a lot of people come into it later on in life.”<\/p>\n
Tasker, who lives in Exeter, believed young people might not know the “many pathways” available in the industry.<\/p>\n
“The video games community is very strong, and they will champion people that love what they do, but they’ll also notice if you’re in it just for the money,” she continued.<\/p>\n
“Passion is the most important thing.”<\/p>\n
Asked about the impact of AI, she said she believed the industry was doing a “really great job” at rejecting it, because players hated it.<\/p>\n
“I think as an industry we should be really proud of the fact that we’re still championing human creativity and that the audience is also on board with that,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2019, Jarvs Tasker was forced to give up her teaching career due to chronic illness when she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}