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Trollstormur:
my family used to own a Gaming store, so basically I got paid to run, play in, and win Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

shit yeah.

The Voice:
I worked for NAMCO BANDAI Games America as a video game tester.  So basically I would play video games for 8 hours and get paid to do so.

Trollstormur:
I once was employed at NAMbLA as an assistant rapist.

Those were some good times.

KvP:
I used to work at my Junior College's computer lab. It was sickeningly cushy and I was paid $8.25 an hour.

My duties were limited to refilling paper in the printers and resetting student passwords. Any and all technical issues, be they hardware or software related, were delegated upwards toward full-time IT staff.

We were allowed up to 30 hours a week. I clocked in 26, on average.

We had no oversight from management. All issues relating to lab employees were basically handled by the employees as a collective. Unless you were opening you could come in late if you wanted (2 people on desk at all times) and you could leave early.

There were no real restrictions on what you could do in the lab. You could listen to music, watch video or play computer games (provided you had a laptop) I watched the entire series of the Wire on the clock, as well as Twin Peaks, Arrested Development and Mr. Show. All in all I was probably paid $1,500 just for watching video. I also beat Baldur's Gate 2 twice, which yielded me about $660, as well as a modded game of Fallout 2 which netted me about $330. Same for dicking around in Reason 4.

God, it was the greatest fucking job on the planet. I miss it terribly.

TheViscount:

--- Quote from: tania on 25 Feb 2009, 20:26 ---this was a job a coworker of mine worked, not me, and i guess it's not a "really cool job" but it is the best thing i have ever heard in my life pretty much? so i'm going to put it in here anyway.

my friend had a summer job working in a biscuit factory and got paid minimum wage to sit in a room and watch packages of biscuits roll down a conveyor belt. all she had to do was watch them roll down the belt for 8 hours a day and make sure none of them were defective. however, if she did see a defective package of biscuits... she had to poke them off the belt with a stick.

let that sink in - my friend got paid full-time to poke boxes with a stick. it's like something out of a cartoon.

--- End quote ---

That actually seems like a really, really, really boring job.

My friend's job is quite relaxed, I think he enjoys it, he's been doing it for a while now: He tests games for EA, he tested games for a couple of other companies beforehand, too. All he does all day is play games, take a second look at everything, make sure things are working [which sounds like there should be some work involved, but it takes a quick note and you're done], and..well..that's it.. Sometimes he just comes in and... Plays games.. He comes in high sometimes.. No one seems to notice. It looks like a giant LAN party at his office. The only bad thing I suppose is the nerd-stench and some other drawbacks of having a lot of 'computer guys' around with you, but there should also be computer girls... Hopefully..Do they still exist?

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