Hi there,<div><br></div><div>Depending on what you mean by educational - a job where you're exposed to a lot of different stuff to learn is how I'm interpreting - I'd suggest QA. Granted I'm biased and always found it difficult to hire QA as it does tend to burn people out for all kinds of wrong organizational reasons.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But, at the right company, it can be a delight, like a development gig that can be about the whole ecosystem, or whatever parts of it you're interested in pursuing. It has a sort of bad rep as something like "verify a blue button exists and is blue", but it's a field that can really be taken far in any one of a number of directions, at a great deal of depth. Someplace with a product that is itself technical, say a data warehousing place, the work can be a satisfying mix of development (building test automation and dashboard visualization of that data - that, guess what?!, has only internal consumers so you're free to have more fun with it than a consumer-facing UI - personally i like smiley and frowny faces) ... interfacing with product "how many significant digits did you picture this showing?" ... interfacing with ops "umm, this new feature causes 5% more DB CPU usage, is this going to melt our prod databases?". </div>
<div><br></div><div>The other thing I've come to see is that it pretty much takes a developer skillset to be able to execute as QA effectively, at least for any product/site that has external APIs. I may not know or care about the list of caveats to the documented API to twitter, but if I were QA there I imagine I would need to be able to go to the devs, credibly, with an understanding/respect of external developer's expectations. Like, building my own client (i've had QA interviews where the interview was a) say hello to the hiring folks, b) write a client to their API, c) present my client and the exercise building it to the team, all on site).</div>
<div><br></div><div>My $.002,</div><div>seth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Hasan Diwan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hasan.diwan@gmail.com">hasan.diwan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Ladies and gents,<br>
I am currently employed, but I'd like something more educational than<br>
what I'm doing right now. My experience is mainly in computational<br>
finance and SQL. So, is anyone hiring?<br>
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