At least according to Money Magazine I have the best job (check out the top job on the list).

Here’s where the story get really funny. The have a profile on a “representative” Software Developer. The theory at my office is that he is a paid actor. He works at EA (makers of Madden Football, among other games) which has recently had a really bad bout of bad press. An “EA Spouse” wrote a blog about how disgruntled she was with the company and how it treats its employee’s. One of my coworkers (who came to use from EA) told us that when that news story broke, he came home and asked his wife it is were writing that blog, since it very easily could have been.

My coworker says he doesn’t know the guy profiled, but says he worked in a different office (he could tell by the artwork in the background what game he was working on, and deduce what office he was in). So this guy could be real, but I would think twice about taking a job at EA any time in the near future…

UPDATE: I got this from a friend of a friend who used to be a game programmer (current occupation: coffee farmer in Hawaii) talking about this same article:

A friend just forwarded me this article.  I worked with this guy some at EA.  Some stupid journalist decided he has the best job in the country.  Shows how they don’t do much research before publishing.  Apparently they missed the fact that they guy has no family life because he works piles of overtime, isn’t paid all that well, and works for a company that was sued by it’s employees over unfair business practices.  To top it off, the guy may have what sounds like a good job but he sure sucks balls at it.

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