Your dual-identity?

Captain · August 12, 2002, 12:27

What do you do in real-life? What's your occupation?

(this poll sparked by thread suggestions regarding whether citizenry is mostly students or not; concerns whether activity will drop off due to end of summer "vacation")

Captain · August 12, 2002, 12:44

oh yeah, unpaid work (volunteering) should be counted as working or self-employed, whatever best fits your description.

Aro · August 12, 2002, 12:49

As a cartoonist, I can do my job in a half-hour, sometimes. Or I can spend ten hours or more... but with two machines, I can be connected most part of time. The problem is... I'm not a good player, my english sucks and my only possible contribution is my famous "high-resolution world map" (you can find it here )

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So... I'm a little useless...

Sheik · August 12, 2002, 12:51

Your English is actually just fine.

This is an off-topic question but where does Apolyton get all those quotes and facts that you see while your post is processing? I just got one that said if every Chinese person jumped off a 10 foot platform ten feet of their coast at the same time it would create a tidal wave that would destroy everything west of Nebraska

Jon Shafer · August 12, 2002, 12:51

Uni student.

FrustratedPoet · August 12, 2002, 12:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Sheik
This is an off-topic question but where does Apolyton get all those quotes and facts that you see while your post is processing.

The package came with a whole load of quotes already included. The admins have added quite a lot more since. There used to be a thread in the 'Apolyton Community' forum (maybe it is still there) where you could make suggestions for new quotes to be included.

Epistax · August 12, 2002, 13:08

Bow to me for I am Epistax, lord of the underworld.

In my off time I enjoy pottery

OPD · August 12, 2002, 14:34

Unemployed.
(not retired/disabled)

Harovan · August 12, 2002, 14:38

Full time employed with regular hours. LOL, more or less, that is.

Apocalypse · August 12, 2002, 15:54

High school student with a part time job.

GodKing · August 12, 2002, 17:28

Full time employed, with regular hours.

Night grad school, irregular hours.

Ceramics/pottery, whenever I have free time and my studio calls and I can get dirty....

Archiological dig, local (700 year old NA indian village) - volunteer coordinator 1 day / month.

Girlfriend / fiance, often.

Computer games and a good book fit in about here. Divided equally (depends on if any good books came out receintly).

GodKing · August 12, 2002, 17:39

the above is for time purposes, not importance......

also, i voted full time work, irregular hours as it matched me the best....

Vlad Antlerkov · August 12, 2002, 19:08

High school, with an inordinately heavy workload (for high school, anyway).

notyoueither · August 12, 2002, 19:19

Self-employed/ business owner.

I have a lot of flexibility, except that I am responsible for several people and have to see to regular hours being kept.

Subject to sudden unavailability due to crises. The IT industry is good for that.

ManicStarSeed · August 12, 2002, 20:05

Full time consulting engineer with a demanding client. Making turnchats is real hard.

Aggie · August 12, 2002, 21:48

I usually teach people and also do my own research on the side. Right now it looks like my mornings will be free but the afternoon might be busy. Of course that could change and I might have to work during the day, most likely if I did it would be m,w,f or t,th. But everyday is always a possibility, thats why I didn't run(also the candidates were all very good and deserving when I got back). I'll know more in a few weeks. Still I will be able to play and post, just might not be able to attend turnchats, if they still exist that is.
Aggie

jdd2007 · August 12, 2002, 21:52

well im sort of a high school student
edit: ok, i admit it. im in my last year of junior high

rush · August 12, 2002, 23:56

Full time employed. 90% of time working from office, 10% from home. Lots of overtime work, especially when I am in Tokyo.

Epistax · August 12, 2002, 23:57

CE @ RIT

I need a job though

Jonny · August 13, 2002, 00:07

I'm the one that's below high school.

I'm just 1 year 'til high school.

Donal Graeme · August 13, 2002, 01:29

College Freshman. (NOW you know where the massive inferiority complex, the biting insults and weird comments come from!)

MrWhereItsAt · August 13, 2002, 02:49

Completing Honours at University and eyeing up a PhD for next year. Part time working at the University, multiple sports activities, oh, and lashings of parties and alcohol (you're only at Uni once

).

I have a two week "vacation" from next week, tho', so chats, threads etc won't be a problem over that time.

UnOrthOdOx · August 13, 2002, 06:25

Full time, odd shift, somewhat.

As soon as you figure out what I actually do at my job, let me know.

notyoueither · August 13, 2002, 06:29

You sell red noses?

notyoueither · August 13, 2002, 06:51

Quote:

What have this to do with civ?

Trying to figure out the demographics of the players, I think.

MrWhereItsAt · August 13, 2002, 07:02

We are determining the effects of the recommencement of the North Hemisphere school year on participation within the game. It looks like a helluva lot of us will suddenly have little time for the game.

Captain · August 13, 2002, 12:04

As MrWIA said...

Quote:

We've established that our active citizenry (those replying and voting in the last few days) are composed of roughly 50% students (whether high school or uni or college or whatnot), many of whom will likely see a drop in their ability to participate when school starts up again (for majority of NA and perhaps Europe, begins soon).

We've already noted that ministerial responsibilities and time commitments clash with real-life commitments and are preventing many interested people from running. This establishes that we *may* have further difficulty in filling positions once summer vacation for NA ends. Further support for moving to turnthreads instead of turnchats, or as a basis to promote and promulgate further discussion as how to improve participation in light of real-life obligations.

Another way of doing so might be just to inquire how much time people expect they can spend on the C3DG game in the upcoming year, but perhaps this method makes the poll more interesting. Furthermore, it indicates priority and flexibility of the real-life commitments and a clue as to the competing interests of our participants. Job demands, school schedules, or the party life of univ/colleges...

Unless I'm seriously mistaken in my worldview, if we discount addictions (such as those of UO players), obligations in an online game will always take a back seat to real-life obligations and more palpably interesting activities.

The one area I would change if I were to repoll would be to inquire about other obligations, such as familial duties whether filial, spousal, or parental. The poll gives lots of information (if we take certain assumptions based on the social and cultural mores of "the West") in terms of occupational time-use but failed to inquire about the other strong obligations of life.

Originally posted in another thread as to why this is not spam.

GodKing had a good idea with his posting of his time-commitments, but since not everyone wants to post in such detail, the poll will have to do for now.

UnOrthOdOx · August 13, 2002, 12:44

You want detail?

I work currently 5:30 Am to 3:30 pm (mountain time, don't know GMT at the moment). 1/2 hr drive home depending on traffic. Evenings are pretty free, spent helping my wife of seven years with our two sons, one 3 years old, one 2 months old. I have a church meeting each Wed evening, in addition to Sunday afternoon. Sunday evenings are spent visiting family members. I regularly get up at least an hour early for work for some free time on the comp. I also get some time at work, as you can tell, for internet. We try to get out as a family at least one night a week, but are pretty flexible which night that is. I expect things to change somewhat in October when my wife goes back to work and I am alone with my son's three - four times a week. My wife works a night shift with rotating days of the week, and I will not be able to predict what days those will be.

trickey · August 15, 2002, 10:37

uhh, below high school.

civman2000 · August 15, 2002, 12:23

high school