Eric Boosman:  

Connect to me on facebook if you want to chat. Life chronologically: rock band, sales, tech support, web design, graphic art, videogame art, game art director, game creative director. So that's the short version for the people that don't want to pay (I don't blame them). Here's the longer version: 1991-1995 After school I grew out my hair and played in metal bands. I moved to San Diego for a few months and came back. I was supporting myself working at pizza places. Very glamorous. 1995 I wanted out of the pizza business and was offered a job selling audio/video equipment on the condition that I cut my hair. The tradeoff was acceptable to me, although my gf at the time was devastated about my cut hair. I continued to play in my rock band, and we released a couple demos. 1997 I worked for a few places selling A/V and worked for myself doing home theater installations. I wanted to get away from commission sales, so I ended up with a job selling office furniture downtown Seattle at Ducky's. My father died in '97 at the age of 83. Good guy. Wish he was still with me. 1998 Pretty soon I wanted out of sales completely, and I ended up with a job doing customer service for MindSpring (now EarthLink). Working for MindSpring taught me a lot about how a large company can hold onto a great and positive employee culture and still be wildly successful. It became clear that the band was never going to be big, so I joined a grunge/dub fusion act that was cool, but they didn't have a strong enough drive to succeed. I started doing ambient techno/electronica stuff for fun, and I wish I had more time now to keep working on it. Up to this point I was doing music as my main hobby/off time career aspiration. I got to know the ins and outs of the business side of music over the previous several years and then realized what I wanted for my lifestyle didn't fit in with having a music career, especially as my main source of income, so it was time to move on. 1999 I started studying web design in all my spare time, and I already had a great aptitude for graphics and computers, so it was natural. I left MindSpring and did web development for a startup dotcom in Bellevue. That company dot-bombed and I went back to EarthLink doing tech support. I worked my way up the ranks there, en...Expand for more