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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4732674" data-attributes="member: 54707">Yeah, some occupations tend to overlap in either function or who they service.I could consider a rehab counselor either a soft science (depending on what exactly the job entails) or even civil service.A Teacher could be civil service of course, depending on how you want to define it. (I've taught too by the way, science, history, and religion - so that could be confusing.) But then again it could be a liberal arts job. People on the line can just make their own call or vote in more than one category.By the way anyone can vote in more than one category.If you wish. I'm not saying, by the by, that there will be a real correlation (I suspect there won't be), certainly not a direct one, and nothing provable or perhaps not even really investigable by such a comparison, especially not just by an internet survey. After all people can easily fabricate anything they wish on the internet. And often do.But I did find it kind of interesting that in the film description so many people seemed to be drawing a sort of occupational or lack of occupational link between gamers (in this case RPG gamers, or more specifically D&D gamers), their hobby, and other activities (or lack thereof) in the real world.Like I said I haven't seen the work but the basic premise on what I read (which could also be highly prejudicial or biased in either direction) is that the director made a sort of investigative documentary in which one of the likely conclusions is that gamers are (or at elates these were) sort of, what would be the term, misemployed in relation to the larger world. Of course you have to remember that the point of the film may have been that it was only about these three particular individuals, about all such gamers, or maybe he had a different point to make. (Such as that these three individuals ha only one real hobby interest or an overweening one. For instance if D&D is your only real gaming hobby (or nay kind of hobby) then is that good, bad, or indifferent in relation to how one relates to other things in the wider world? how much time does one spend engaged in a gaming hobby versus other activities, etc? I think things like that would make for interesting studies myself. Don't know if it would make for an interesting film though.)In any case I thought examining occupational capability (or lack thereof) versus (particular) gaming interest might make an interesting study. If not for its own sake then it might lead to some other interesting discovery.By the way, I didn't list specific jobs (too many of them), but general categories of occupation, like Science, Art, Religion, Business, and Civil Service.</blockquote>

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