I wonder if part of why I like being a software engineer in a big-ish company comes from how I grew up playing Zelda as well as Lucasarts / Sierra Online adventure games. After all, to a great extent the job is:
- person gives you a quest
- search for an item
- do a little puzzle
- meet characters along the way
- persuade somebody to join your party
@seb_m I've long felt gig work is the closest to the standard adventurer board. A lot of them are just endless escort/fetch quests.
@dracil I’ve never worked in the gig economy but that sounds about right.