u/LotemShrimp

Hello! I have 3 years of experience as a software engineer but a year ago got into a great company as a QA engineer. While I found software engineering to be difficult, it was still something I could understand and it came more naturally to me. I have absolutely hated doing QA work. I was doing automation programming for a while at the start of this new job and I liked it a lot. Now however the contacting of devs for info and trying to suss out different problems that pop up in Slack for people has been not fun for me. Also the fear of maybe missing bugs or me just testing something wrong has been getting to me.

I think part of it is that I am on the autism spectrum and the more social aspects of QA work have caused me difficulties, but I'm not sure. I have been taking a long time to handle my QA tickets and have been stressed at what I feel like has been my lack of productivity over the last month or so.

I want to ask my boss if I can switch over to doing software engineering again on one of our companies teams, but I'm worried that it could show I'm not cut out for QA and I could end up with no job at all. I don't even want a pay raise, I just miss feeling productive and also satisfied with my work. Any advice here is much appreciated and what I should do.

Been posting places to keep myself accountable. I hope this post is okay! I'm going to quit taking edibles on June 29th and keep it up for at least 2 months. My relationship with weed hasn't been too bad, but I realize I have spent wayyyyy less time working on my dream projects than I would have otherwise, combined with spending too much on doordash.

These aren't crazy bad things, but enough that I think I need to stop for a while. I also slightly increased the amount of days I got high from 2 days to 4 a week which I also haven't liked. I only get high to be able to concentrate on single player video games like I used to be able to when I was younger, but the amount I have been playing now is too much.

Posting this here so I can look back on it and remind myself of my reasoning when the time comes. I then hope to resume in September and have it be weekend nights only, but if I feel like I don't want edibles anymore than that would be great too!

Been having trouble finding monitors that are all four. If there are any recommendations it would be much appreciated. My old monitors are Samsung LS32A700NWNXZA 60hz 4k so even 120hz would be a big upgrade but I'm curious about trying 165hz since I'm upgrading anyway. I do a lot of gaming but also work from home and do 3D modeling and game development on the side as well. My monitors are on for a very long amount of time so I was shying away from OLED and I don't really need it, though the prices of what I'm looking at seem to be approaching OLED price territory.

I found these two on Amazon but if there are better choices I'm all ears!

ASUS ROG Strix 32” XG32UCG for $600

KTC H32P22P for $380