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what's his youtube?

With bullshit jobs, could you expand on finding meaningful work? It's something that has eaten me up the last while (non meaningful work and being unsure what direction to head to find it)

I've searched a few reviews of the book but largely seemed to focus on how many jobs are pointless rather than finding non pointless stuff

Any advice on finding a working logical argument? I find myself stuck in unhelpful loops sometimes i.e. Do I enjoy my job? Do I have a sense of purpose in my job?

I realise the answer will be personal and only I can provide it but I'm consistently failing and it's impacting my mood

I'm potentially interested in moving to Malta with my wife, possible to email you about the realities? My email is in my profile

not Dublin myself, further up North but I'll get in touch, thank you for the kind offer!

Improve testability throughout applications by working with their team, setup and maintain test frameworks (hopefully improving them over time), determine what tests should be automated and those that shouldn't, write automated tests, coach team members on writing automated tests and testing in general, add new tools/processes to improve testing, investigate the application in-depth to find risk areas.

I'd be curious if HN think the above includes things that shouldn't be there or is missing a number of items? I'd be curious what the 80/20 for an automation engineer looks like?

I think you're jumping to an awful lot of conclusions there?

The reason I'm targeting automation is that it tends to be done really badly in most companies. At the moment I feel I do it pretty well but always seek to improve. At the moment I don't feel like I'm improving much and want to avoid things staying static for long. Therefore I'm trying to re-evaluate the basics or gain new insight and get back on track

I did indeed mean test automation, apologies, I should have been more clear.

Great to see a HN post on testing, they seem few and far between to me!

can I ask why you decided to do this? The tests were just flakey while in robot framework world?

thanks for asking this question, enjoying reading through the responses and may even get in touch with you OP as you sound similar to me.

is the course any good? I've considered it but yet to pull the trigger

thanks for this! You mentioned Selenium, automated tester?

wow, thank you for your incredibly detailed reply. I'll ensure I refer back to it again and again. Often I have the problem I'm in the midst of right now, I focus on specifics rather than the bigger picture and the general things you need to keep in mind while working.

Thank you very much for going to the time and effort of that reply, I really appreciate it.

1) Software, more specifically web applications.

2) Automated browser/ui tests, hopefully I'll get to move more toward the api/service/functional level as well. First stop will be to essentially build a regression suite.

Other

1) Nope.

2) Using agile

3) Not constrained other than by management and other workload. Essentially I can make testing here what I want and I want to make it good. I'm fighting some pretty old ideas on a regular basis.

4) Basically no, they've hired me and another guy to 'develop' it but I had zero testing experience and the other guy has a few years, though has never led.

5) No, it's Patrick!

I feel I have a knack for doing some unexpected things when I have freedom to think and I'm not hugely rushed. Unfortunately I don't get much support from management. For example, I found an unexpected bug which I and several devs thought was a 'show-stopper', the product owner thought this was, 'testers running through unrealistic scenarios.'

Does anything like this exist for testing?

1. Software testing.

I really struggle to find good information at improving in this field

is this 'Winner' and 'Loser' ?

is there similar conversion degrees for other courses or is it pretty much always non-IT to an IT masters?

how do you become an automated testing deity? Any recommended resources?

good advice for automation/development I imagine but for QA this surely doesn't apply as I won't be writing the code?

seems to be the key point missing in all of this, exercising with a biomechanically screwed body = more problems. Though I certainly agree most just need to get off their butt and do something, I've had 7years of hip issues because my body essentially cheats deep hip flexion and I need to re-learn the correct way.

You can get the boat to South Korea which would be a decent alternative.

Very much appreciate the reply and thank you for the kind offer of e-mail. Hopefully I'll find time to try your course, e-mail you some feedback and perhaps pick your brain :)

Again OT, you said you taught PHP, where and how did you get into this?

Hope this takes off for you mate, best of luck!

Slightly off-topic but I figure what the hell I may ask. I am two years out of university (comp sci), working as support/development in investment banks (indeed the work is destroying my soul.) I've spent quite a bit of time looking into fields I may be interested in such as security i.e. why I'm going to try your exercises.

My question is, this area seems quite niche, how does the average person work out if they're suited to this? Furthermore, is there obvious prerequisites to working out whether you will enjoy certain areas. i.e. I do not feel very good at programming, therefore is it strongly unlikely I would enjoy testing / security.

I realise this isn't the right place so feel free to ignore me :)

I can't seem to find the right place :( !

I find my problem relating to this is the ladder up against the wrong tree/building problem, it seems an absolute bugger to work out. The good news is, I know when I do I have the tenacity and work ethic to constantly get better

very much enjoyed your comment, something I very much needed to hear. I myself am a comp sci graduate and I feel I have no programming skill whatsoever, especially now after almost 2 years of support work in banking. So essentially I feel like I've a software development degree and lack the skill to be a software developer. I've looked at my current passions and the Ira Glass quote also speaks directly to me as I'm looking at potential avenues and saying no, no, maybe with little to no actual experience of these avenues!

May I ask if you've always been a developer and this was limited to languages / paradigms or was this am I a DBA/Systems Analyst/Dev or perhaps even wider?

Are there any similar sites to Coursera in terms of offering actual University courses in Nutrition etc rather than just comp sci / engineering?

What did you move from and what have you moved to in terms of job?

anything like this in London or Belfast?