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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 6608728" data-attributes="member: 10738">It's a weird conundrum. I'm at work right now and behind me is my bag with some D&D books and material in it. However, I have literally never taken these books out at work...I keep them for when I go on lunch break, and even then I am more inclined to pull out a tablet with PDFs on it these days. However, having stuff like this out at work depends a lot on the environment you work in. I've been to places where it doesn't matter what the hobby is....that stuff shouldn't be visible because it may have an impact on any management's perceptions of what you are doing while working. Being in management myself, I noticed when some of my co-workers whom I had hired were bringing in their gamebooks to read during breaks (I've employed more than a few gamers in my time). Not an issue for me, but I can guarantee any of my managerial cohorts in other offices would have frowned on this....in theory at least not because it was D&D, but because it was non work-related material...although I suspect a guy with a Sports Illustrated lying on his desk instead of a DMG probably would get a pass from them (just a hunch).From my perspective my hobby is indelible but I try usually not to mix it with work in a visible way simply because A: it's a time consuming hobby and I don't really have the time (even at lunches) to properly engage with it, and B: its a perception thing....and by that I mean some people won't get it, and I don't want to have to try and explain it. Likewise, work is the bastion of the straight stiffs and the mundanes, moogles, what have you.....and it is too much bother for me to have to fight off the masses of the mundane. Instead I tend to express myself at work in more obscure ways....astronomy calendars, for example. All that aside, I'd love to have a job where I could do as I wished. But even running this business that I am in I can't do that, due to my clients. Someday though, ya never know...</blockquote>

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