I've just finished the first year of my career in real time interactive simulation programming, so the next three years of my life will go to finish college. After that, I have no idea what I'm going to do. I've talked with classmates about making our own video game studio, but I could as well end up working for the AAA industry somewhere (Canada or the US maybe), or work in serious simulations for medicine, firefighters, earthquake prevention... I do know that wherever I work, I would like to be an engine programmer rather than a gameplay programmer. I find the technical side of programming much more interesting than the design part.