Gaming has done more for me in the workplace than college...

[Budgy]

At first this may sound strange, but it's true; gaming has done more for me to prepare me for my current job than my years of college.

After going through semester after semester of physics and calculus on my way to become a mechanical-aerospace engineer, I found my years of map developing for CS:S has helped me succeed in my new job more than any class I've taken.

In my workplace, I am considered one of the most reliable, fastest-working employees because I sit down, put my headphones on and bang out Auto-CAD drawings for building schematics like a mofo; I'm not even through college yet.

After all the intense math and quantum theory I've learned, it was CS:S map making that did the most.

I just wanted to put that out there to the community, and also ask if gaming has given anybody else benefits that they weren't expecting, and also if anybody agrees with me on the fact that children should be encouraged to play video games at a young age to increase logic and reasoning?

 

[rustybadger]

to be honest, rapid typing (key aiming) skills has done alot for me, almost all of which i gained from original gen typing games while ikle.

Thus, i think that speed typing has been instrumental in my ability to type code, 1 part of my current job, quicker, and cheaper, than others.

Also, maybe some problem finding skills etc, which maybe game centered, but i think military training helped alot.

You almost always learn from a game. If not directly, then your multi-tasking and congruent skills development will work overtime. More rocky; dodgey lengthy stories help consider 'big picture' theories etc.

Lets be honest, whatever you do helps shape you, and games help develop parts of you you were unaware of, so that's good.

As long as long as you restrain from killing everyone you see, or looking for snipers.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

in truth, your map making skills helped you in your drafting skills. it was only by way of gaming that you had interest in map making.

ultimately it's a lesson that i wish more people would understand. if you want to do something you find a way to do it now. so you obviously had an interest in drafting and expressed it through gaming and because of that you had a head start.

the only games that have helped me are the math skills from poker used to understand risk vs reward. these are the same skills used to assess financial investments.

 

[Budgy]

As long as long as you restrain from killing everyone you see, or looking for snipers.

Hey, in a given situation that might not be such a bad trait to have. heh

 

[rustybadger]

ok, if you join the MoD, then great ( RN for 3 years). Admitedly, i have looked at the Reading sky line on a post- red faction mission with apprehension.

Damn you game intervention....

Leave my reality be!!!!!

Ok. I should know better than using actual skills against game skills. but it's so blurred! can someone help me?

Oh no, wait, i'm not a muppett.

(except that i might have spelt muppett wrong)

Laters

 

[Nonsensicalname]

I can see this quite clearly. I only have a few experiences on the job market (17 here), but it's easy to compare my practice of completely beating games in one sitting to the single-minded drive with which I go about work every day. Work ethic is something that cannot be taught completely in an academic environment, and many people learn those important skills through their hobbies and interests outside of school.

This isn't to say that I think gaming is a viable alternative to a traditional education, I just think that it holds to the same standards of other complex, many-layered activities that make a well-rounded person.

 

[Budgy]

This isn't to say that I think gaming is a viable alternative to a traditional education, I just think that it holds to the same standards of other complex, many-layered activities that make a well-rounded person.

Well put. I agree with you on that one.