First Post: Jobs

Yay, my first post! I’ve been trying to think of something to post about and I finally found something!

First of all, it has to be understood that my dream job, besides being a best-selling independent fantasy writer (lol), is to work at Wizards of the Coast. Ideally, my first choice would be game design or writing novels for one of the established universes, but if I could find any job that remotely ties into my interests, I could see myself considering it. I mean, even if it was a lame day job, I’d still be working at Wizards and would probably have time to write on the side.

Let me post the benefits I found on their FAQ page:

What are the company benefits?
Benefits include (based on full-time regular employment):

• Medical, dental, vision – Includes coverage for spouses/domestic partners and dependants.
• 401(k) –200% employer match for the first 2%, 50% employer match for the next 4%, with immediate vesting for employer match.
• Short and Long Term Disability; Life Insurance; Accidental Death and Dismemberment; Long Term Care Insurance.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts: Which allow our employees to set aside money on a pretax basis to pay for a variety of health care expenses and dependent care expenses.
• Vacation – accrues 5 days at 6 months, 10 days for year one, 12 days year two, 13 days year three, 14 days year four and so on for a maximum accrual rate of 20 days a year.
• Holidays – Three personal days plus Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after Thanksgiving, and a Winter Holiday (usually from December 24 through January 1.) Plus your birthday!
• Sick Leave – accrues a total of twelve days per year.
• Free popcorn, coffee, tea & hot cocoa and 25-cent sodas.
• Tuition assistance.
• Profit sharing bonus.
• On-site Day Care Center (subject to availability).
• Recreation programs and on-site dojo and gym with showers and lockers.
• Free company product.

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If the “on-site dojo” doesn’t stand out to you, you are not normal. ;)

So BESIDES the dojo, which just establishes the place as nerdy as hell (but kinda cool >.>), the other benefits sound fairly decent; and no matter what, it’s better than retail.

Wizards is also in the middle of their of their open submission period where they take novel samples from writers who want to write for them. But to submit, I’d have to actually have a novel ready. Their guidelines are different this time around too…

Anyways, here’s the links for those interested in checking it out (to see what I’m talking about) or applying (although in providing them, I suppose I might be increasing my competition ^^; ).

http://ww2.wizards.com/Company/jobs/default.aspx

http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/default.aspx?doc=main_faq