Kynmore

Having myself worked in the trenches in the ass-tastic realm of QA, I can say I loved every minute of it. Except the commute. Even though it's my only resume worthy bit of game industry, I have two launched titles under my belt, where I was in from alpha to launch. It's good experience. And if you can pull it off, good work while trying to get a degree to go up that latter.

I don't see anything wrong starting there, in QA. It gets you in the door, and pits you in a place you can meet the peopel who's job you want. The industry swapped people around like a crakcked out Pokemon convention. So if you know who's who, and you have the skills to move up, you'll know before anyone outside your orginization will. If you're in a Giant mEgA corporation like I was.

Never look down on QA testers; they have your bals in their hand.