Being a video game job tester is not all it’s cracked up to be. If you are considering taking on videogame job testing as a potential side career or a part-time job in addition to your day job, please read ahead for some information that not everyone knows. Here is some background to get you started.

Video games have stages of development and for good reason. They have multiple stages of testing, two are beta and alpha. While alpha is mostly for people who work for the company or the families of those workers, beta is for people like you and me because the company is simply trying to get every possible configuration and possible way of playing the game out there to stress test the game itself. Also beta testing can be done for multi player games to stress test the servers it is played on.

There are some things you need to consider and keep in mind if you are seriously considering taking on video game testing as a job or just a part-time job to complement your day job. You should read on and think about these things first before you go onto looking for one of these jobs. Personally I say go for it, there is almost no downside.

1. This can be a full-time working career if you put alot of effort into it, but I think it’s best to keep it as a part-time and keep it light and fun for you. Otherwise it quickly becomes a chore, and the fact that you are at home, and YOU decide your hours means you will soon be slacking off and not earning nearly as much as you did before.

2. Being a beta tester does NOT mean you are playing video games for fun. This is a real job and should be considered as one, meaning you need to be very careful in how you execute your job, and you need to put in the hours to get money out of it.

3. The pay can be pretty good if you consider the fact that you don’t need a real resume or a formal educational background to get into the industry. However a resume does help and having a good work ethic will keep you in the job and keep you earning money and not slacking off. You should probably have a day job or something else to keep your focus on while you attempt this career path.

4. The good parts? You get paid a decent amount, you can work whenever you want to, you don’t have to go anywhere to do your job, you can just do it at home or wherever they send the games to you. And hey, you’re playing video games! But trust me on this one, if you do not like video games that much, do NOT try to do this job, you really do need to enjoy learning about video games, exploring as much as possible within one, finding all the little errors and glitches, and really enjoy getting to know the ins and outs and perfecting every aspect you can imagine.

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