Life Update

So depression wise I'm doing brilliantly, only one bout of depression in over a month, which is incredible for me. However two major things have happened, firstly the JCP is screwing over my girlfriend, making life really difficult for her, saying she's going to have to travel to Cambridge everyday and that they WILL NOT pay for child care or travel, I would look after her son for her but with him being 5 years old he doesn't know about us yet as we want to be careful with him, but even a 5 year old would ask questions if mum's new friend suddenly looked after him everyday. They are putting her in an unworkable position. The really stupid part is she only needs to work 16 or 17 hours a week to be earning enough to keep her and her son as she's incredibly good with money, but as we all know even that amount of work is near impossible to find at the moment. The second thing that's happened is BT, who my dad works for, are trying to push all the over 50s out of the company (except for those high up of course), in doing this they've caused my heart attack survivor father to have an angina attack while threatening to stop his BT pension, despite his being at the company for WELL over 20 years.

Long story short, JCP are bullies, but don't go to BT to get away from JCP as they're even worse, they will happily kill their own employees to avoid employing them till retirement. The sooner I can get full time work the better, hopefully I can be earning enough that even if my girlfriend doesn't have her 16 hours she can still come off benefits. It's going to be difficult but it can't get much worse than it is now.

~Rusty Mongrel.

Some Words on Train2Game

Train2Game is a company based in the UK providing home learning courses for those interested in breaking into the games industry. I was stupid enough to sign up to one of their courses, it cost me £2600 as a one off payment, would have been a lot more to pay monthly. About a third of the way through the course I got to a point where I was struggling to continue, but was determined having completed my first online exam with a score of around 76%. So I phoned the tutors, who's job it is, I was told, to help me. Both tutors pretty much told me it was my own problem and nothing to do with them. They wouldn't let me talk to a supervisor to complain and I couldn't find a number to contact management/supervisors directly. So I've basically been left on the course, at a point I don't understand and can't get through with no help, having given them just over two and a half grand of money left to me by my late grandmother. When she left it to me for my education I think she intended the company it went to to actually educate me.


In my opinion, and that of many others I've met in life and online, this company is a scam. Once they have your money they drop all support. I would urge anyone looking at their courses to go with a different company and any game devs looking to recommend them to think twice.