Often think of job change especially when projects are on hold or when you have open and close web browser 20+ times in the last hour?(not when u r testing a web site) What shall you do when no task is delegated to you and the boss is sitting the cubicle behind you?

Positive thinking: Just like the quite night before a storm, maybe I will be flooded once all the projects are released at the same time. Maybe I should study ISTQB advance certification.

Negative thinking: Am I going to be redundant and my job is going to be outsourced. Maybe I should study ISTQB advance certification.

Take a look of the water condition of where I am going to duck in:

-         97 Testing & QA job listed in the last 7 days in my city metro area on one of popular the IT job site (IT2). 75% of them looking for middle/senior level QA tester, the salary offers vary from AU$ 60,000-90,000 (not too bad).

-         If you have been to one of ISTQB exam sites, you will notice how many testers there are or how many people wants to be a testers. (competitive)

-         Many companies as I know (even some big Corps) don’t have testers; they use developers/BA as casual testers. Let’s hope one day their developers/BA go on strike that they want a clear job description when they find out it’s not humanity to tell themselves that their babies are ugly. (potential)

-         Different companies require sets of different skills: their legacy system, operational environment, automation tool, business environment etc. QA is certainly not a one to many kind of job. (challenging)

Anyway, learning and self-improvement seems always fit in many situations when you don’t know what’s the next.