Admit it, you first learned about micro and macro whilst playing Starcraft

Alright, so I've gone through the battlefield bullshitting my roots for interest in finance to imply my dedicated qualities but in all truth Starcraft first got me. I'd consider myself a practical and sociable person but my geek comes out when I'm playing the game. I recall my first exposure to management under pressure and a balanced method of business; weighing value vs intangible utility of a unit. Anyways I sound like a fucktard now but somehow it transformed into a path in investment banking. THERE, I said it... whatever... fuck you too.

 

Starcraft was the first online RTS game that I played seriously. At age 12 or 13, I was ranked the 9th best player in the world on Blizzard's ladder system. I was invited to California to compete live, but I was too young to really understand what I had won so I just accepted my free t-shirt and let the opportunity pass. However, I do attribute a lot of my multi-tasking capabilities and high-level competitive strategic thinking to Starcraft and later Everquest. Video games don't get as much credit for positively developing our youth as they deserve.

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CompBanker:
Starcraft was the first online RTS game that I played seriously. At age 12 or 13, I was ranked the 9th best player in the world on Blizzard's ladder system. I was invited to California to compete live, but I was too young to really understand what I had won so I just accepted my free t-shirt and let the opportunity pass. However, I do attribute a lot of my multi-tasking capabilities and high-level competitive strategic thinking to Starcraft and later Everquest. Video games don't get as much credit for positively developing our youth as they deserve.

Depends on the game...

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CompBanker:
Starcraft was the first online RTS game that I played seriously. At age 12 or 13, I was ranked the 9th best player in the world on Blizzard's ladder system. I was invited to California to compete live, but I was too young to really understand what I had won so I just accepted my free t-shirt and let the opportunity pass. However, I do attribute a lot of my multi-tasking capabilities and high-level competitive strategic thinking to Starcraft and later Everquest. Video games don't get as much credit for positively developing our youth as they deserve.

well said.

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
 
shorttheworld:
there was a guy at yahoo who got a high up managerial position since he had extensive WOW planning.

maybe not so much now but when u had to schedule the massive raids (20 or 40 i forgot) and make sure certain people got loot from DKP it was a mess lol

i would totally hire a hardcore wow player -- particularly one that was a GM, had highly-ranked raid performance/arena or RBG rating, wrote his/her own addons, etc -- provided they show up to work on time and do their job, of course.

 

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