[stomachmonkey]

Hey, don't knock video game testers.

It's a much more difficult job than people realize.

It's highly tedious to play code that crashes every 5 seconds in it's early stages.

It requires a tremendous amount of logic, problem solving, analysis and organization. They need to be highly literate as verbal and written communication skills are crucial to relaying their findings.

Game testing is the first step in a carrer path. Many have aspirations to becoming producers and designers and much like a trade job they need to start at the bottom and pay their dues to move up to those high profile positions.

The ones who think it's just sitting around playing games rarely get hired and if they do they don't last very long at all.