how do you make ends meet?

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

Many of the game testers complain that it has completely ruined the entire gaming experience for them for like life and shit.

Now that's where the fun is.

Yep, totally aware of that, just pretty sure that would not be the case for me personally, because for example, one of the major reasons for that is probably because it is my understanding that in the video game industry, the way it works is you are paid however much they think its worth for your contribution to each GAME, and how much you get paid usually does not have anything to do with how long the project actually takes or how many hours you put into it, and that SUCKS.

However, I would not care about that because I would so much love the fact that I was improving video games, and that seems so meaningful to me, because of the degree to which so many games are buggy when they could easily be less so, and how much more buggy they would be without testers. You see, to me, if a bug in a game exists which could have been easily removed enough and is sufficiently annoying, that is a PROBLEM.

And yeah, definitely. That is probably one of the most fun jobs in the world right there, "video game writer".