Too much of a good thing/Be careful what you wish for

So I managed to get a job a couple of weeks ago. Testing video games no less.

I had been writing a post about how awesome my job is and had even made a picture.

My toolbox:



But it's funny what a difference a few days make. I would not have be able to comprehend how playing video games could be so torturous if someone had told me, so I suspect others may struggle with this: it sucks. Well some days, and then occasionally it is like "I can't believe they're paying me to do this".

The downsides to the job:

• they make you play the same game for weeks on end, 9am-5pm
• the games are not finished so are not very good and crash all the time
• the supervisors (or my one at least) act like the comic book guy from the Simpsons, if he were competing on the Apprentice
• I am not allowed to discuss any of the games outside of work
• They exercise collective punishment: they stopped email (?) at work for several hundred people "until further notice" because some guy looked at porn
• the pay is very low
• I am nothing more than a pair of thumbs who can use a spreadsheet to them
• the chairs (no couches) are awful
• it is of little value on my CV
  

The job was way better in my imagination.

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I have spent so many days writing this post, that I have now organised a new job to start on Monday. The position is "lead prospector" at a website firm. Hopefully my imagination hasn't ruined this one for me too.