Stealth Nerd
Posted By Ardellis on March 20, 2006
I’ve known people like Karla, who hide their geekiness at work, and, honestly, I don’t understand them. If I want to sit in my office during my lunch hour and read comic books, I do. Hell, I have a poster of Zatanna on the wall next to my filing cabinets. I don’t tell ripping roleplaying yarns to folks that I know won’t be interested, but back when I actually had a weekly game to go to, I told people what I was going to do over the weekend if they asked me. My boss and my staff know I write fantasy and vampire stories, that I’m a Tolkien fan, and that I play computer games. They also know I’m working on my genealogy. So what? If you spend forty hours a week with a group of people, they are eventually going to start finding out who you are, unless you put a lot of energy into hiding it. Energy that I think could be better spent.
Besides, it makes it look like you’re ashamed. Living in the closet. Which is stupid. If I’m not going to hide the fact that I’m a Witch, whyever would I hide the fact that I’m a geek?
And if you work in an environment where being a geek could be detrimental to your career prospects? Well, that’s your choice, obviously, but I find it hard to understand why anyone would deliberately stay among people who would have no respect for them if they knew what games they like to play in their free time.
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