[Broco]

If you get a QA job make sure it is at a developer, not a publisher. At a publisher you would normally be in a physically separate location from the developers and not get to chat with them outside of formal bug reports, so your chances of switching to a better position outside of QA are basically no better than if you were a complete outsider. It's more fun to do QA at developers too: you have more of a say in the development process. QA openings at developers are scarcer, but it is worth focusing on them.