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| A thoroughly depressing and demoralising experience if ever there was one! |
I've often wandered whether my wargaming, and indeed boardgaming skills were in anyway transferable into the real world. No I don't mean could I take my love of toy soldiers and open a shop or write my own game. That's not what I mean. No I mean has my obsessive love of toy soldiers and stuff taught me things, skills if you will that can help me in the workplace? It seemed unlikely at first glance when I first asked myself this question years ago when I left university. I was trying to work out what I should put down in my CV, you besides saying I like reading books, sleeping and going on holiday. Do I mention I love comic books, toy soldiers and one day think the zombie apocalypse will happen? I went with no at first. Simply put, I know I'm a nerd and I wasn't sure how it would go over with prospective employers. I'm still not.
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| I watch it for the deep political and social commentary... honest I do!!! |
However, I am far more comfortable telling people that yes I am a nerd. I do think Battlestar Galactica is awesome, yes I read comics and like a man in spandex, and I also play with toy soldiers. In the past I've actually had some interesting and positive responses to some of my more geeky admissions. I once had a really long chat on the phone with someone about a job and I made quite a geeky reference to Firefly, I can't quite remember what it was now... but the chap at the other end of the phone got it instantly and we had a good geek out. He made sure I had an interview, but sadly wasn't on the panel, so I didn't get the position. In my first job after university I had a line manager glance at me with a resigned look on his face and tell me "in the grim darkness of the council there was only bureaucracy". The fact that I instantly got the reference and we had a good laugh about it led to us both knowing we were wargames geeks.
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