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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by richardjdare on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:45AM (#31488428)
When I worked in QA many years ago I was just as much a coder as I am now. As a self taught programmer from an unpromising background I tried to take the route that was most accessible to me. I wasn't the only programmer or artist in the QA team looking for a way up. Before I got that job I worked in a factory cleaning up animal figurines with a dentists drill after they came out of the moulds. I could code then too.

The job you do says nothing essential about who you are or what you are capable of. It is often purely circumstantial.

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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by strix_varius on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:44PM (#31494415)
> The job you do says nothing essential about who you are or what you are capable of. It is often purely circumstantial.

Luck and circumstance definitely play a part in the job you do, but it's plainly not true that your job says nothing about what you're capable of.

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