My dream job would be to be to teach people to use Linux and open source and watch them thrive as they really learn how to use their computers. And this was inspired by getting steam and proton to work under Arch for me. 😀

Not video games, but I used to play a lot of monopoly in college and now I’m actually a banker

Kind of a roundabout answer to your question, but I got into tech bc of my love for gaming and specifically LAN parties. My buddies and I would get together and knew that hubs were needed (this was ~20 years ago) but didn’t know much else, so I ended up figuring out your to build super basic networks. That led to being a quasi TA to the IT teacher in high school and then to a very basic tech support call center job out of HS.

I’ve been in the industry for over 20 years now, and while not every job has been great there’s always more to learn and ways to grow, and I still love what I do. I even came full-circle and for a while got to work for one of the game developers who made the game we all used to play at those LAN parties back in the day!

Not me personally but related. American Truck Simulator has started displaying in-game billboards for an irl truck driving recruiter.

I’m usually pretty strongly against in game advertisements, but this one just kind of makes sense to me.

The entire Ace Combat series, though I’m trying to study for airport management because my eyes aren’t good for piloting.