Wednesday, April 12, 2006

I have the best job in America

I have the best job in America according to Money Magazine. See here for the article. And, of course they are never wrong.

Well, actually my job is, comparatively, quite nice.

I am just wondering why they picked Mark Dochtermann, some manager at EA, to write a blurb for this article, considering that EA has reputation as being a horrible place to work.

Here is a quote from Mark:

    I make a good living, and I'd rather work on a game I don't care for than write code for a financial company. I'm building a product that entertains. Unlike engineers in commerce or aerospace, I can push the envelope without someone getting hurt.
Sorry dude, but I work for a financial company, and hacking repetitive low-level code to do Fourier Transforms and geometrical manipulations for 16 hours a day is not my idea of a good time. What is? Solving a real business problem with a clean, beautiful design and using the latest tools and a modern, high-level language to implement this design and see real-life impact to real people.

Lets just agree to disagree Mark, and leave it at that.

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