New Job!!!

[Ashman]

I got a new job... started today, its so awesome.

I am now a QA Games tester at Activision!!!!

Cant talk about what games I am working on, but its a great job. I get payed to play video games all day!!!!

Alon

[snibble]

Sweeeeet! what games does your company make? Any that's known real well?

[Ashman]

well lets see. Tony hawk pro skater 4 is one of em...

Heavy gear, tons of others. Remember pitfall?

Check out www.activision.com (http://www.activision.com)

Alon

[kodiak]

Good deal. I have heard that Activision is a pretty good place to work for the game industry (most suck). You working at their office on Ocean Park? My gf apartment used to be a couple of blocks from there.

~dnm

[Ashman]

yup working at the ocean park office.

My job is to find bugs in games and report em. :)

I'm still in training getting taught the ropes, but I love it.

Alon

[shanta]

The fun will wear off quickly. Playing the same *broken* game over and over gets really old, and annoying. Trust me! The only good thing is that on your down time you get to play games that really work. If you are lucky you will get some other perks, like a free copy of the game you test (most game companies do that). You may also get some tickets to pre-screenings, not sure about Activision's hookups but EA is the stuff. Jsut a few weeks ago, Barry Bonds, Sugar Ray Leonard, Carmello Anthony, Gilbert Arenas, and Johnny Gill were there, all on the same day. Most were doing some promo stuff, but I have no clue as to why Johnny Gill had his pimp looking ass there.

[Ashman]

hehe you work at EA? Cool.

Actually I love finding problems with things and helping fix them.

Its been like that for me since as long as I can remember.

When I was little I was called mr fix it. When I got into computers. I started getting called Nick Burns by friends....

I love tinkering with stuff, so testing games for me is going to be fine. I usually play games for long periods of time over and over anyway, because I like to explore around and try different things.

I dont plan on being a tester permanently. I plan on working my way up.

As far as celebs go. I get my fair share of them often. I've done computer service for pam anderson, Vin Diesel, James Eckhouse, Sascha Knopf, Matt Lawrence, and Joanna Pacula.

Alon

[shanta]

Nope, I don't work at EA, I have friends that do. Celebs are alright, but I don't pay mind to them too much. They are always hanging around EA. Plus I also see some cleebs when I am at lunch or go out to breakfast, because I work right down from the Raiders office and the Golden State Warrior boys are usually around.

[Ashman]

ahhh.

Well all the ones I have done work for, were actually quite nice, just regular people as afr as their attitudes went when I was there.

Alon