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When You Lock The Office Door For The Last Time
You don’t expect it when the company you work for shuts down.
Imagine coming to work every day and playing video games for a living. That was my life until two years ago when the company closed unexpectedly.
While looking for work during my Computer Science degree, I’ve looked everywhere for entry-level jobs related to my field. That’s when I finally found a Facebook post from a video game company in Israel asking for QA Testers. I immediately applied.
After a couple of rounds, I got the job. That night after the call and my enthusiastic Yes, I fell asleep with a smile on my face. I was still having a hard time believing I would receive a salary for playing video games and finding bugs in them. This position was going to be my first job in the High-Tech Industry.
Fast forward two years later, and the CEO called the entire team was for a meeting. The main takeaway from that meeting was this: “We’re going through some rough times. If we can’t find an investor or a new project, we will have to give out the notice and close the company.”
The company was making video games for clients. We didn’t have a product of our own. Naturally, that meant a constant risk. But the company — as I discovered sometime after joining — was…
