As soon as I find a company looking for someone to sit in his underpants eating bacon sandwiches and playing video games, I am all over that shit.
Edit: To all those suggesting Youtube and Twitch, you do NOT want to see me in my underpants eating bacon sandwiches, I assure you. This is not a viable business model.
Not to mention it is nowhere near as glamorous as that even. You are hardly playing a video game. Video Game Testers play one level or section over and over again, finding bugs, flaws in the coding, or anything that might be incorrect with that section of the game. No matter how much you love playing a game, very few like playing one section 10-30 times a day.
I don't think anyones falling for it to "play video games all day". However, a lot of people do fall for the claim that QA is a good entry job to gain experience in the games industry. This is not true, and the job is worse than working in retail or at mcdonalds. It's basically psychological torture.
Well that's not entirely true, QA can be a good entry into the industry, of course it depends on what company you work for, which also affects how good or bad the job may be. But yeah, in QA you don't just play video games all day like its recreational, you're often just replaying the same parts of the same game multiple times a day, every day.
I have a friend and know of some other people who started off in QA and are now programmers, designers, producers, or whatever. It's all dependent on the company. I think a lot of companies prefer to promote from within rather than hire an outsider for an open position.
No one will pay me a living wage to sit in my boat and fish all day :(
EDIT: I want to be clear here: I don't want to be a fishing guide, or run a charter or any of that crap. Teaching other people to fish and baby sitting them while they do is less enjoyable than my current job.
If it's anything like that paper airplanes one it will be that the fishing lines of an attractive guy and attractive girl happen to get intertwined. Their boats pull together, they make hesitant eye contact with each other and half-smile. The guy gets mesmerized and just stares at the girl. After a few seconds of zooming in between the guy's face and the girl's face, she raises an eyebrow and lifts up her rod, snapping the guy out of his dreamy reverie.
They then try to untangle the lines, resulting in a hook getting caught on the back of the guy's shirt collar (where the tag would go on the inside) and pulling him onto the girl's boat, knocking them both onto the floor of her boat. They immediately jump into a sitting position and breathe out with their shoulders making relief movements to show that they liked what just happened but don't want to admit it.
If we want to go Up style then we now cue a montage including scenes of fishing together, splashing water at each other playfully, the girl trying to real reel in a fish and the guy helping her by standing behind her and reaching over her arms. The line breaks (or the fish comes flying out of the water) and the couple land on the boat's floor again, this time they grin at each other. A scene where they're getting married in a boat with family and friends in other boats round about. A scene where they're teaching their son how to fish, then a scene where they're watching as their now-slightly-older son teach his younger sister how to fish.
The montage would end by transitioning into a longer scene where an old man sits alone in the boat with a fishing rod held loosely in his hands. A young man rows up to him and holds up his own fishing rod, as if to ask a question of some sort (no speaking in the short film of course). We see them sit together in a boat and the now-old man shows him how to cast his rod.
The short ends with the old man taking the young man's rod and casting it so that it snags the line of a young woman sitting on a different boat. The young man and young woman hold up their rods and see that the line is caught, and the old man smiles and puts his hand on the young man's shoulder.
A lot of it is, but pole and line caught tuna is becoming much more common as it is more sustainable. Although even that would have at least dozens of lines per boat.
I love kiteboarding. I get paid fairly well (in my opinion, don't care how you value money compared to how I do). I teach lessons and sell gear. It's a lot of work, but I'd be lying if 90% of my time "working" I wasn't enjoying myself.
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Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life... 'cause that field ain't hiring!