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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1572595" data-attributes="member: 18377"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Indeed. People I have palyed RPGs with (and not counting at cons) have included a detective-sergeant in the Australian Federal Police on secondment to the National Crimes Authority, an officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (our counter-intelligence/counterterrorism body), an engineering officer in the Royal Australian Navy, an infantry officer in the Australian Army, a prosecutor for the Attorney-General's department, a successful defence litigator, the senior advisor to a (Labor party) shadow minister, a political advisor to a (National Party) Federal Cabinet minister, three people who have played cricket at the state representative level, a fourth cricketer who played as a professional in English county cricket, a contender for the Australian Olympic handball team, a martial arts instructor, and a professional skiing instructor: all of them with good degrees from first-rate universities. And that's not even starting to count medicos, lawyers in private practice, and people teaching in universities.'Sub-culture' be damned! We are the Establishment.In fact, I think that my intrests (particulary RPGs, but to a lesser extent sports, and community volunteer work) did impact on my mental illness: beneficially. They kept me alive, productive, and socially engaged through a mental illness that results in 30% of suffers committing suicide before they turn forty (which I do in September). There were times during severe attacks of depression when the only thing I left my room for, apart from using the bathroom, was to run my weekly TFT campaign.</blockquote>

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