#ScribesAndMakers 3/28: Does your day job (past or present) influence your creativity?

I feel kind of impostery responding to this due to my utter lack of written fiction in the past couple of years, but here goes: I am an academic psychologist with research activities/expertise (such as it is) principally in sexual offense and psychometrics/data analysis. I also have strong interests in some social/cognitive psychology areas, especially group effects and prejudice/discrimination. All of those influence my half-baked, constantly-on-the-back-burner WIPs because I study people for a living and I write about people (when I write about anything not intended for students or a scientific audience). Not that I've ever had my fiction published; all my pubs are in academic journals and books.

Additionally, one of the back-burner WIPs I might never finish is a slightly zany story about being an academic swimming in the political and structural soup of chronically-underfunded US universities, often a bizarre experience and (IMO) wildly different from most (USAmerican) people's ideas about academia.

So yes.