What do Civ4 players do in real life?

[CivNoobie]

This isn't a question intended to intrude anyone's privacy; but I just want to gather some data to see what kind of people fiddles with a game like Civilization, i find it intriguing.


EDIT: I think this belong in the off-topic section

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

I picked "Engineering", as it's the closest to what I actually do. I'm an "RF Test Technician" or somesuch. The engineers at the company I work for have various electronic pieces of equipment they're trying to design/produce that have to go through a bunch of tests; I'm a stop on the tour. I test the radio frequency (RF) emissions coming off their gizmo to make sure it won't interfere with other electronic gizmos around it. Then I blast it with high-power RF to see if I can break it.

...hence, "Dictator of RF".

Spoiler :

...yes, "gizmo" is a technical term. Hush, you.

EDIT: In the spirit of the question, however, it should be noted that when I first got into Civ, my "profession" was "junior-high-school slacker".

 

[Pangaea]

I'm basically a student still, and if young people still play this game, that will probably apply to a fair few.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I picked 'other' and considered 'blue-collar related'. I'm retired, and I did 'work' for a living (blue-collar) even though I had my own business. Might have added 'trades' as an option, since construction folk often don't think of themselves in the same blue-collar category as manufacturing workers.

 

[Drakarska]

Med/Health for me. I have rather erratic times and shifts, as well as on call. So Civ time gets rather interesting after I play catch up with the kids and home stuff.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

I think you should add 'student' and 'retired' as options.

 

[CivNoobie]

it won't let me change the poll

 

[Macksideshow]

Civ is what I do in real life. Lol, I ticked other, I just finished uni and am unemployed.

 

[elitetroops]

Poll options should be GA/GE/GG/GM/GP/GS/GSpy/citizen and Emperor imo.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Poll options should be GA/GE/GG/GM/GP/GS/GSpy/citizen and Emperor imo.

What about the guys working cottages, mines, farms, workshops etc.?

 

[vandermerwe]

I'm a civil servant, although strangely I've never chain-irrigated anything in a 20-year career, nor have I allowed anyone to build any macemen. OTOH, the random, capricious and sometimes downright stupid decisions of AI leaders isn't a million miles away from how a lot of real-life politicians behave behind the scenes

 

[Robert FIN]

I'm basically a student still, and if young people still play this game, that will probably apply to a fair few.

I was going to skip this thread but above comment made me reply. Soo.. This might be too old story of you, but at least I do play Civ as Junior Hi' Student (currently 15y old). It needs a nerdy person to play Civ in my age in these days. Everyone plays shooters . I prefer strategy. If thinking about what kind of job I'll have in the future, I'd bet for IT. I'm really interested in programming. I already can make small, simple Java stuff.

 

[duckstab]

I'm a Java developer/architect in the area of enterprise software. Server-side stuff for the most part.

 

[Seraiel]

Med/Health for me. I have rather erratic times and shifts, as well as on call. So Civ time gets rather interesting after I play catch up with the kids and home stuff.

We seem to have something in common after all.

 

[Warhunter]

I think you should add 'student' and 'retired' as options.

strongly recommend this

Also if you want more data could put in if it's college, high school or other level of education, since i suppose very many will fill in student as their profession.

It's high school for me if you want to know

 

[Tigranes]

Students can still fit in one of those categories depending on major. He is more interested in background/interests rather than how you actually earn your living.

 

[Drakarska]

We seem to have something in common after all.

Well, it actually seems the Civ-verse is a bridge for understanding after all . Or at the very least, a common ground for detente .

 

[AdamCrock]

wow ! Drak is a Doc ! ^^ Good to know ! ^^ Say Doc ....ummm.... Is there any cure for Civ addiction ? Not that I'm addicted mind You - I can stop everytime I want ! It's uhhh ... friend of a friend who is addicted .....

I've picked IT since I've been a helpdesk "professional" for ISP company (for 3 odd years) - which is simply repeating the phrase "Have You tried turning it off and on again" about a 1000 times a day - literally Resigned from that because it was driving me crazy Right now I'm Uni graduate unemployed - looking for a nice job but I can't find anything which is worth it. Meanwhile I do a various odd jobs here and there - which are not worth mentioning. I guess You can call me a slacker

 

[Pangaea]

Maybe Government or Social work would be most fitting for me, coming from social sciences, or political science. Still a student, though.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I'm a former psychiatric nurse, and now I'm a behavioral psychologist. Doc Lemon just can't get away from the human mind, it seems...