We’ve got another great article this week from @nwheelhouse and it’s all about a “Tester Paradise”:
There’s some great tips on how to make your working life better and more effective. So I thought a fun question to ask would be:
What’s your idea of a ‘Tester’s Paradise’?
Is everything documented up front? Is the opportunity to build cool automation tools? Could it just be that you have time to get your work done?!
Is it a paradise if you’re struggling to create a barely acceptable work environment and mental well-being all by yourself? or an illusion of a paradise?
Is the question about how I’d build my own paradise or get to live in an existing one?
To me, a paradise is a place where you get to be yourself and enjoy everything that exists around you and maybe even most of the things you’re doing.
What’s your idea of a ‘Tester’s Paradise’?
A world where testing is looked upon as an expert activity that takes focus and skill, and cannot be reproduced by machines or amateurs to the same degree. One where what it means to be a tester is fought for and won by testers, and not left to be determined by developers or excluded in the next development methodology. Where teams invest into their testers because of the value and savings that they’ll have in return.
I want respect and the opportunities available to me to be valuable and valued.
Building your own paradise, would be the one that you have ‘Full’ responsibility for - It is in the eye of the beholder - This does not mean if people are rude, or dismiss a piece of work that you take responsibility for that, simply that you take responsibility to your reaction to it - You have a choice 
To live in an existing paradise relinquishes that responsibility and as such it can be taken away at any moment
As I say, Paradise (in my opinion) is a Mindset
I agree to to all that @kinofrost has said. To add to that, my idea of a tester paradise would also be: