As a tester I always have lot of questions to ask to developers, fellow testers, management and myself about the product, bugs, problems, functionality and future. I sometimes think how important is to ask questions, how they will help me, help my product. I got numerous answers for all my questions and when evaluating the answers I came up with one reasonable answer i.e. questions help me understand and evaluate myself better.
Recently I find myself among questions, lot of questions, most of them are How, When, What should I...and very few Why do I type of questions. I found that all questions can be reasonably answered but it is always difficult to answer Why questions. Whenever I ask myself ‘Why should this…’, ‘Why I am here…’ type of questions I find myself in real trouble in answering these questions as these questions comes with lot of answers pregnant with possibilities and to pick the correct one out of them is a huge task.
Few years back while working for an organization ‘Why am I here…’ question comes to my mind one day and on evaluating and picking the best answer I found myself changing a job. It is real difficult period for me to decide a job change because I am settled there with a routine job, working to the best of my capabilities and the management is happy with me but when I asked myself this question I found many reasonable answers like I am doing a routine job where nothing much new to learn, no new challenges etc and on evaluating the answers I found that to grow in life, career and to learn new things I have to move on and that is what I did.
From that point onwards I keep asking me these ‘Why’ questions on a regular basis to keep evaluating myself and to keep myself on toes…
