What do you make and what do you do?

[Fifth Element]

I'm a Chartered Accountant. Income tax specialist. I won't mention my salary, but it's enough to support my two young ones and keep me pretty well in D&D books. And minis.

But if anyone wants to pay me a bit less to play D&D full-time, drop me a line. I'm interested.

 

[Family]

A neat little bell curve with one oddity at the $75,000+ range...hmmm

 

[Fifth Element]

A neat little bell curve with one oddity at the $75,000+ range...hmmm

The oddity being that the last category is an aggregation of other categories.

 

[TerraDave]

Its no oddity. Though the dip in the middle is kinda interesting.

What is an oddity: an off-topic-poll, in general. Though I guess it is only fitting, given all the "how old are you polls" we have had.

Edit: dip is of course a function of the cap.

 

[Tormenet]

I direct government affairs work for a medium-sized non-profit civil rights group with offices in most major U.S. cities.

For work I have been to Iraq (only 28 hours on ground, nothing like our troops), had very angry people pointing guns at me in Jerusalem and had a close to shouting match with a Member of Congress in the U.S. Capitol (Rep. Zach Wamp). I've been quoted in everything from the NY Times down. I've run campaigns against large U.S. corporations and won concessions from them.

None of the above matches the interest and excitement I feel for the 4E books. Release the things already...

 

[Leftahead]

Hi, Firebeetle-

Very interesting topic.

I'm a hobby shop owner, and make a living wage (I voted in the 35-45 range) from my store when you include dividend payments that go out to me and the other owners.

The image of gamers as all being starving students is put to the lie by this (admittedly self-selecting) survey, and that coincides with my experience eat my store. I'd also be curious as to how many of those listed are in a dual-income family situation... my wife's job covers our health care (though the store could afford it if necessary) for example.

We find that the gamers less concerned with squeezing every buck out of every purchase are the ones we're most effective at marketing to, because they're looking for a different value equation.

-Lefty

 

[Temmogen]

Diverse... sort of...

I'm a dispatcher for a courier company, as for the group I play with...
One of them is a Customer Service Rep for the same Courier, we have a Pharmacy Teechnicnian for the VA, an IT professional, and the FLGS Owner/Operator/Clerk type person that plays with us. Another player cleans Computer rooms for a living, and I don't know what the newest member does for a living, but she makes enough money to live on. Between my wife and I we make enough to live a nice quiet, mellow life.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

The image of gamers as all being starving students is put to the lie by this (admittedly self-selecting) survey, and that coincides with my experience eat my store. I'd also be curious as to how many of those listed are in a dual-income family situation...

Our family is single-income (mine -- I'm a software developer for the medical industry) in the 75k+ category. (I'm married with four children.)

We find that the gamers less concerned with squeezing every buck out of every purchase are the ones we're most effective at marketing to, because they're looking for a different value equation.

Well, I have disposable income for games, but I still consider price the main factor in where I buy products. I posted some comments on what I'd like in a game store, here.

 

[hornedturtle]

I am a recently graduated Philosophy student in the nerve racking period of looking for a job before the student loan people start looking for their money.

 

[SavageRobby]

I'm currently a web programming consultant, but I've been the Director of Development, IT and VP of Tech at various places. We're a two income family; my wife is the Executive Creative Director at a social marketing agency.

Our usual group consists of my wife and I, a trio of professional geeks (an IT/systems specialist, a QA manager and an authority on AI), a philosophy grad student and a master gardener (doing graduate work at A&M). We have two part-timers, as well, one a homemaker and the other an electrician/subcontracting estimator. We range from late twenties to early-fifties, with most of us in our late thirties.