|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 9, 2024 10:25:59 GMT -5
The subject says it all. Answer as you will.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 9, 2024 11:24:53 GMT -5
My first job was really like D&D in a lot of ways. I traveled from place to place and explored every kind of business you can imagine over a three state territory. I did fire protection and hazard evaluation (every area from human element to physical protection features) inspections of everything from office buildings, factories, warehouses, hospitals, etc.
Like D&D the prime ability is curiosity. I would find problems that even the guys known as the best in the company had been walking by for years. I approached every inspection, even when I was doing repeat visits for a several years as though I was the first person to ever do an inspection there. One thing I realized, although it was not part of the job, bottlenecks in their operations just stood out to me like a sore thumb. I was amazed at how inefficient most manufacturing operations are. But as I really found out on later jobs, offices are even more inefficient than manufacturing.
I really enjoyed searching out and finding things. Two later jobs when I was doing plan review the inspection experience was a great help, because unlike my co-workers I could envision what those plans for buildings and fire protection system would look like when it was finished (full 3-D visualization). So I asked questions that no one else would ever ask. Because I was intensely curious, I would also ask questions no one else would ask. As a result I found problems in designs that other people would never find. Those skills led from one job to a better job. Which was great until the boss that created that job, retired and his replacement decided that they way it was done in the 1950s was better.
Any job that is essentially a form of exploration is right down my alley.
|
|
|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 10, 2024 19:14:52 GMT -5
The Perilous Dreamer, this is a great story. Improvising stories for a young child is probably the thing in my life that has been most like gaming, especially when she makes requests or adjustments in the middle and I have to roll with them.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 10, 2024 19:30:12 GMT -5
The Perilous Dreamer, this is a great story. Improvising stories for a young child is probably the thing in my life that has been most like gaming, especially when she makes requests or adjustments in the middle and I have to roll with them. Yeah, small children live in the world of imagination. |
|
|
|
Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 12, 2024 18:22:23 GMT -5
The Army. We went on adventures in the woods, made camp, had guard duty, ate rations, had random encounters and fought off enemy attacks.
|
|
|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 12, 2024 19:11:42 GMT -5
The Army. We went on adventures in the woods, made camp, had guard duty, ate rations, had random encounters and fought off enemy attacks. Not an answer I was expecting, but it makes perfect sense. |
|
|
|
Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 12, 2024 20:02:40 GMT -5
The Perilous Dreamer, this is a great story. Improvising stories for a young child is probably the thing in my life that has been most like gaming, especially when she makes requests or adjustments in the middle and I have to roll with them. Yeah, small children live in the world of imagination. Which reminds me, as a child I would get on my bicycle at 10 (year I go a bicycle) and go ride for hours on the gravel roads/dirt roads in the extended area around my home just exploring. I would also go out into the 30+ acres of woods on the family farm and explore for hours, just me and my dog. Use my knife and some string to make a bow & arrows, spears and such. Use natural fiber twine from haybales to make "rope" that I would use to repel down cliff faces and use twine and sticks/branches/small trees to build forts. Those woods were my kingdom. I knew every inch of that 30+ acres like the back of my hand. |
|
|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 12, 2024 20:09:37 GMT -5
Yeah, small children live in the world of imagination. Which reminds me, as a child I would get on my bicycle at 10 (year I go a bicycle) and go ride for hours on the gravel roads/dirt roads in the extended area around my home just exploring. I would also go out into the 30+ acres of woods on the family farm and explore for hours, just me and my dog. Use my knife and some string to make a bow & arrows, spears and such. Use natural fiber twine from haybales to make "rope" that I would use to repel down cliff faces and use twine and sticks/branches/small trees to build forts. Those woods were my kingdom. I knew every inch of that 30+ acres like the back of my hand. Now this is fun. |
|
|
|
Post by simrion on Feb 13, 2024 5:46:32 GMT -5
Yeah, small children live in the world of imagination. Which reminds me, as a child I would get on my bicycle at 10 (year I go a bicycle) and go ride for hours on the gravel roads/dirt roads in the extended area around my home just exploring. I would also go out into the 30+ acres of woods on the family farm and explore for hours, just me and my dog. Use my knife and some string to make a bow & arrows, spears and such. Use natural fiber twine from haybales to make "rope" that I would use to repel down cliff faces and use twine and sticks/branches/small trees to build forts. Those woods were my kingdom. I knew every inch of that 30+ acres like the back of my hand. This! As a kid there were no "digital distractions" like my boys have access to. We had, at best, 5 channels of poorly transmitted television. When Mom was fed up with us outside we went. Of course at the time there was the "Mom network," somebody's Mom had at least one eye on the neighborhood rapscallions. We spent countless hours playing in the woods, climbing trees and exploring. No THAt was adventure! I approach life itself as an adventure. Makes dealing with some of the more "stressful" aspects navigable  |
|
|
|
Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 13, 2024 8:20:05 GMT -5
Which reminds me, as a child I would get on my bicycle at 10 (year I go a bicycle) and go ride for hours on the gravel roads/dirt roads in the extended area around my home just exploring. I would also go out into the 30+ acres of woods on the family farm and explore for hours, just me and my dog. Use my knife and some string to make a bow & arrows, spears and such. Use natural fiber twine from haybales to make "rope" that I would use to repel down cliff faces and use twine and sticks/branches/small trees to build forts. Those woods were my kingdom. I knew every inch of that 30+ acres like the back of my hand. This! As a kid there were no "digital distractions" like my boys have access to. We had, at best, 5 channels of poorly transmitted television. When Mom was fed up with us outside we went. Of course at the time there was the "Mom network," somebody's Mom had at least one eye on the neighborhood rapscallions. We spent countless hours playing in the woods, climbing trees and exploring. No THAt was adventure! I approach life itself as an adventure. Makes dealing with some of the more "stressful" aspects navigable I'm with you guys. I don't know how many hours we spent in the nearby woods building forts and "surviving" but it was a LARGE amount.  |
|
|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 13, 2024 10:37:37 GMT -5
I could use some survival skills for everyday life.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 13, 2024 12:42:07 GMT -5
This! As a kid there were no "digital distractions" like my boys have access to. We had, at best, 5 channels of poorly transmitted television. When Mom was fed up with us outside we went. Of course at the time there was the "Mom network," somebody's Mom had at least one eye on the neighborhood rapscallions. We spent countless hours playing in the woods, climbing trees and exploring. No THAt was adventure! I approach life itself as an adventure. Makes dealing with some of the more "stressful" aspects navigable I'm with you guys. I don't know how many hours we spent in the nearby woods building forts and "surviving" but it was a LARGE amount. I spent much more time playing alone and entertaining myself than I ever spent with other people by orders of magnitude. Life is indeed an adventure, more hazardous that anything I ever dreamed up. |
|
|
|
Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Feb 13, 2024 12:42:52 GMT -5
I could use some survival skills for everyday life. Yeah, nothing prepared us for what we are living in now. This makes D&D monsters look tame. |
|
|
|
Post by simrion on Feb 13, 2024 18:55:09 GMT -5
I could use some survival skills for everyday life. That's why I come here for "morale" support from like minded folks |
|
|
|
Post by hengest on Feb 13, 2024 20:55:39 GMT -5
I could use some survival skills for everyday life. That's why I come here for "morale" support from like minded folks Yeah, it helps. |
|
|
|
Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Feb 14, 2024 14:20:27 GMT -5
That's why I come here for "morale" support from like minded folks Yeah, it helps. Indeed! |
|
