First mistake was a game development degree. I tell everyone who is interested in that field it isn’t glamorous, they overwork you and under pay you because they know want to be game developers are “passionate”.
Oh I get it. I tried to convince him of the same thing. I figured the skills would be transferable to something less brutal once he inevitably burned out on the games industry. He started looking at less game-oriented programming jobs but he's now questioning his whole career path and considering going into teaching/education instead.