What do you make and what do you do?

[WayneLigon]

I make over 55K in a city where the median income is 36K and the average home price is 128K, but that has nothing to do with the pro or con of D&D as a hobby. It had nothing to do with my choice of career, or with getting or keeping a job.

 

[Shemeska]

Let's see, my group has 4 programmers, a cell biologist (me), and one computer engineering student. Except for the one still in school, group salary ranges from the low 50s up to the 80s, with average age about 27, and half of us with grad school under our belts.

Summary: young, middle class nerds with pretensions of yuppie-hood.

 

[Center-of-All]

Around 10 grand per year, in a dead-end job with no future prospects. Damn I suck.

And yet I'm still able to spend about 3 and a half grand on random crap. Huh.

 

[kiznit]

I'm an Igor and I help make monsters. The pay's pretty crappy but the benefits are awesome - free utilities (and brother do I rack up an electricity bill), all the torches you can burn, my own pair of tinted goggles and any leftover brains that the master doesn't use. It's been enough to start my own small zombie collection in the root cellar, and I'm hoping to do well selling homonculi in the local Saturday market. Look for me next to the novelty candle merchant!

 

[Berandor]

I'm either disabled, unemployed, or a college student.

Your pick.

 

[blargney the second]

I'm a monster! RAWR!

 

[Jeff Wilder]

[D&D] had nothing to do with my choice of career, or with getting or keeping a job.

Are you sure? I'd imagine that higher education, higher salary, and roleplaying as a hobby are probably pretty strongly correlated. That's not necessarily causation, of course, but I wouldn't rule it out. I know that my love of language, although already pretty well developed, was encouraged when I started playing D&D, and that love of language eventually led to my J.D.

 

[PrecociousApprentice]

I would agree Jeff. For myself, I see my time as a firfighter as an extension of my early crusader nature. Medicine was a logical multiclass. I am looking at a sweet Emergency Physician PrC. The biggest hurdle at this point is that I need the Time Management Feat.

 

[theskyfullofdust]

I'm a senior administrator at a university, but in my spare time I write novels.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I'm either disabled, unemployed, or a college student.

Your pick.

If you're a student AND study in the same city where you live - my condolences!

I'm a student - so no real employment for me!

Cheers, LT.