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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 422870" data-attributes="member: 354"><p><strong>Re: Re: Why?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Is it a lie?</p><p></p><p>Yeah, I suppose, technicly. It's a lie through ommision. Strangely, though, I'm not going to loose sleep over it. Mostly because I don't actualy consider it a lie, as such. I mean, yes, I recognise that it is a lie in a technical sense. I just don't consider it relevent. I mean, I did tell them some hobies. It's not like I'm holding back anything that they need to know. (AKA, if I was a bungee jumper, I think that would be relevent... it could potentialy effect the length of my employment <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). </p><p></p><p>I mean, to answer this question...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>well... that's very simple. Because you want the job, because it beats either being unemployed or flipping burgers, but you have a sneeking suspision that admitting you play DnD would hurt your chances of getting the job. I haven't been in that situation, yet, but I can easily concieve of it. And in that situation, yes, I would lie through ommosion and not mention I play DnD as one of my hobbies.</p><p></p><p>Though, to be honest, and to side track this on a slightly different topic... where does "hobby" start and "just something I do" end? I mean, how many people would really consider "watching TV" a hobby? I wouldn't. It's just something I do. Now, "watching anime" I probably would consider a hobby. So what's the difference?</p><p></p><p>I honestly can't tell, and that puzzles me.</p><p></p><p>Likewise, until I really thought about it just now, I didn't actualy consider playing DnD a hobby, per say. It was just something I did. I considered my Warhammer playing a hobby, but I never really considered my DnD playing a hobby... and again, why is that?</p><p></p><p>/me goes off to think in a corner for a while</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 422870, member: 354"] [b]Re: Re: Why?[/b] Is it a lie? Yeah, I suppose, technicly. It's a lie through ommision. Strangely, though, I'm not going to loose sleep over it. Mostly because I don't actualy consider it a lie, as such. I mean, yes, I recognise that it is a lie in a technical sense. I just don't consider it relevent. I mean, I did tell them some hobies. It's not like I'm holding back anything that they need to know. (AKA, if I was a bungee jumper, I think that would be relevent... it could potentialy effect the length of my employment :D ). I mean, to answer this question... well... that's very simple. Because you want the job, because it beats either being unemployed or flipping burgers, but you have a sneeking suspision that admitting you play DnD would hurt your chances of getting the job. I haven't been in that situation, yet, but I can easily concieve of it. And in that situation, yes, I would lie through ommosion and not mention I play DnD as one of my hobbies. Though, to be honest, and to side track this on a slightly different topic... where does "hobby" start and "just something I do" end? I mean, how many people would really consider "watching TV" a hobby? I wouldn't. It's just something I do. Now, "watching anime" I probably would consider a hobby. So what's the difference? I honestly can't tell, and that puzzles me. Likewise, until I really thought about it just now, I didn't actualy consider playing DnD a hobby, per say. It was just something I did. I considered my Warhammer playing a hobby, but I never really considered my DnD playing a hobby... and again, why is that? /me goes off to think in a corner for a while [/QUOTE]
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