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Working as a Game Tester
DaytonCIM writes "SFGate.com has a great story on the real life of game testers. 'Life is not all fun and games, though. It's all games -- with little time left for sleeping or eating, at least during the busy months before Christmas. The longest week he has logged was 106 hours, and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.'"
Wow, poor guy sure has it tough. And to think I felt sorry for myself for working 50 hours a week at McDonald's while this guy's labouring in some sort of gaming slave pit - sheesh!
Wahhh, I get paid to play games and I complain.
Yeah true, meetings suck too, but.... you do nothing in meetings!
I'm just tired of you weenies who think it is just
the greatest thing ever to be involved with pre-release software especially Games. If only it were so easy to mow you all down with some leathal weapon. I'm not impressed with 106 hour weeks, 60 hour weeks common before releases. As a software Quality assurance tester. I can tell you we all put time in like this. Get a life people. (sounds like this guy needs one too)
Go ahead try it its called actual reality not augmented or virtual reality. We hope to have our regression testing done soon so all of the features of augmented and virtual reality are included so you won't miss a step with simplified physics and turns will be asynchronous in this version.
Let's run the numbers. $10/hr * 100hr week = $50k/year.
Pardon me if I don't shed a tear.
Yes, it's hard work. No, it's not as fun as it sounds.
If you want to quit, I know a half dozen folks off the top of my head who'd be happy get a $50k job these days.
You all have it easy. My job is at the state prison down here. Each day from dawn till dusk I'm busy electrocuting negroes in "the chair". No matter how many colored boys we fry, there is always a new batch of negro criminals the next day. It is a rough job trying to keep up. It is a thankless job keeping the negroes at bay and our streets safe.
Despite your reaccuring prostate and testicular cancer?
/. What are we up to now? 1 million registered users? You gotta be keeping your whore hand strong to pull that title off.
Oh, and aren't you the new karma-whore of
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.