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Working as a Game Tester

Posted by michael on from the carpal-tunnel dept.

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.'"

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  1. Oh please by unicron · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lemme get this straight. You get PAID to spend the majority of your time playing videogames. OH WHAT A HELLISH NIGHTMARE EXISTANCE!! WO IS YOU!!

    I just spent the afternoon degaussing 130 DLT tapes. You'll forgive me if I don't share in your plight of the hellishness that is Galaxies or Planetside. I'll pray for you tonight.

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  2. I wonder... by Genrou · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do they do as a hobby? Accounting, maybe?

  3. Who needs a pension... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...when you are assured lifetime employment as a Duke Nukem Forever tester?

  4. Oh poor baby by Jordy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think you have it bad.

    I'm the Chief Deneedler at a haystack company. You don't know what hell is until you spend 40 hours a week searching haystacks for needles.

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    The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
  5. Its true by intermodal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am a games tester. When I finish a project, usually the first thing i do with my free cop(y/ies) is send them to friends who live far away.

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