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Well, the job interview wasn't. It wasn't for a job, and it wasn't an interview.
Basically, what 3D Mirage has going was not that they were looking for interns. They were looking for applicants for their TRAINING PROGRAM which ends in a 40-hour internship. A training program which costs about $2500, AFTER you get "paid" $1000 as an intern working for them.
For what it's worth, the person I talked with on the phone didn't really say I would have to PAY for the internship, either. I found this out when I hiked all the way into bloody Manhattan for what I thought was going to be a job interview and talked with one of their 'lead animators.' Basically they put you through a 3DS MAX training course over the course of 12 weeks, 6 hours a week (this is defined as "intense training." "Intense training for me was what I got in Florida, where you had 4 hours of class and then 4 hours of lab EACH DAY for 2, 3, or even 4 days a week. Then they get 40 hours of work out of you as an intern. *sniff*sniff* What's that smell? I wasn't THAT close to the Fulton Fish Market when I went to the interview. How odd....
Anyway, that was the FIRST annoying thing that happened today, and inarguably the most mind-numbingly irritating. But the guy whom I talked with was nice, though all the same I'm gonna be giving this one a pass.
The second irritating thing. I stopped by a game store I hadn't been to in years, The Complete Strategist on E. 33rd St. near the Empire State Building. A bit of a hole in the wall but always with a darn good selection. I amused myself by flipping through White Wolf's ending to the Mage line, where they pretty much admitted that, yeah, the cosmologies of all their lines in the WoD were incompatible. I also took great amusement in seeing a new version of Ninja Burger by SJG there. Fun stuff.
( Cut for those with no interest in SFB. )
Anyway, that was my day! I'm pretty sure the 3D Mirage thing is some kind of scam to get more workers in their door without paying taxes or something like that. It's some kind of loophole they're exploiting, and I imagine it's going to bite them rather hard. Sorry, guys; I just mortgaged my soul to pay for a school that was about 450% more "intensive" than your program. Ciao.
Basically, what 3D Mirage has going was not that they were looking for interns. They were looking for applicants for their TRAINING PROGRAM which ends in a 40-hour internship. A training program which costs about $2500, AFTER you get "paid" $1000 as an intern working for them.
For what it's worth, the person I talked with on the phone didn't really say I would have to PAY for the internship, either. I found this out when I hiked all the way into bloody Manhattan for what I thought was going to be a job interview and talked with one of their 'lead animators.' Basically they put you through a 3DS MAX training course over the course of 12 weeks, 6 hours a week (this is defined as "intense training." "Intense training for me was what I got in Florida, where you had 4 hours of class and then 4 hours of lab EACH DAY for 2, 3, or even 4 days a week. Then they get 40 hours of work out of you as an intern. *sniff*sniff* What's that smell? I wasn't THAT close to the Fulton Fish Market when I went to the interview. How odd....
Anyway, that was the FIRST annoying thing that happened today, and inarguably the most mind-numbingly irritating. But the guy whom I talked with was nice, though all the same I'm gonna be giving this one a pass.
The second irritating thing. I stopped by a game store I hadn't been to in years, The Complete Strategist on E. 33rd St. near the Empire State Building. A bit of a hole in the wall but always with a darn good selection. I amused myself by flipping through White Wolf's ending to the Mage line, where they pretty much admitted that, yeah, the cosmologies of all their lines in the WoD were incompatible. I also took great amusement in seeing a new version of Ninja Burger by SJG there. Fun stuff.
( Cut for those with no interest in SFB. )
Anyway, that was my day! I'm pretty sure the 3D Mirage thing is some kind of scam to get more workers in their door without paying taxes or something like that. It's some kind of loophole they're exploiting, and I imagine it's going to bite them rather hard. Sorry, guys; I just mortgaged my soul to pay for a school that was about 450% more "intensive" than your program. Ciao.
