Hi Ali, If it helps, I actually went from interaction designer to technical writer (asked by an old friend, out of the blue) and then back again. The technical writer position was challenging for me. I'm too creative by nature and needed to dial that back and become more detail-focused and precise. I was able to do quite a bit of design for print, marketing writing, and all sorts of other stuff while in that role. My writing improved. It was fun enough for a while, and then I started missing application design work. Glad to be back in it again.
I've done a fair amount of casual testing since I've mostly worked in technology companies. I don't find it much fun, even though I seem to have "the touch" and can break almost anything given twenty minutes or so. The real testers always get their schedules compressed by some sort of development funkiness and have to stay late at night, on the weekend, over a holiday, etc. There doesn't seem to be a career path from tester to anything else, except maybe software developer. The one little pleasure testers seem to have shows up as a small evil grin when they've found a really good bug, because then the developer gets to stay late working to fix something and keep them company. Maybe I'm missing out on the joys of testing, having never done it as a steady diet, but I'd go writer if given the choice. Best of luck, Michael Micheletti ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
