What do you do when not in Eve?

[Cernnunos Gunn]

I understand the need for privacy and am not looking for anyone posting identifying info. I would just like to know what some of my fellow Unis do in real life - hobbies, interests, interesting travel, etc.

I have had 3 careers in my life, and many hobbies. I started out of University in the military. I spent 6 years in the service, and when I left my commission was as an O4. I went into law enforcement and worked on partol for 5 years and as a detective for 6. I was also on the tactical team, and while working went to graduate school. After getting into a PhD program, I left law enforcement and have worked as an archaeologist since 2006. I am a firearms instructor and compete in 3-gun shoots and Camp Perry.

My father was a pilot for Continential and I was fortunate enough to be able to get my pilots license. I hold a private private certificate with IFR and Multi-engine. I love all outdoor activities and though I do not rock clime too much anymore, I do hike, camp, and hunt regularly. I am married, have 2 grown daughters and 2 grand children - weeeeeeeeeee.

My hobbies include playing the great highland bagpipes for 40 years, and competing in grade II EUSPBA. And YES I wear a kilt , though I will not comment on if I do so in the regimental style or not! I also am an amateur radio operator, and besides 2M local, am frequently on 17M, 20m, and 40m SSB, and a little CW.

I would like to hear what other Unistas do in RL, and perhaps this can lead to some interesting ingame conversations. If you are another amateur radio operator I would advise against posting your call sign here, unless you do not mind folks discovering your real ID. =) I did a quick search, but if this is already a topic please feel free to move this to the appropriate thread.

Fly safe & with Honor,

Cernnunos Gunn

[Spilly420]

i dream of eve.... or think of eve, or at least pretend my cars a space ship ... prob a rifter.... ya with a microwarp drive upgrade =D

but really i run a internet cafe/repair shop and fix things for a living the good old fashion way

[Trast Goydo]

Yep, IT career. I'm a US Navy vet and a real backwoods country boy from the Ozark Mtns of SW Missouri, USA. I hunt and fish when I can, mostly flyfish and catfish. I also have a passion for samurai swords.

[Cassiel Seraphim]

I grew up trying plenty of activities available in Sweden. The usual suspects, football, basketball, floorball, hockey and volleyball ... plus several others like gymnastics, athletics (running, hurdles, spear throwing, rings etc), wrestling, swimming, handball, orienteering, skiing (both horizontally and vertically), snowboarding, skateboarding, biking, motorcross, riverrafting, kayaking, canoeing, sang in a choir, played for the chessteam in elementary school and probably more stuff I can't even remember doing (or want to, like modelling a spat when I was a teenager ... jeans for a local clothing store *laughs*). Some things I did for several years, some only for a summer or a winter.

Initially football (soccer if you will) had me for years, as a goalie for most of the time, but also last-of-the-line defender. But for the most part of growing up, I played volleyball more than anything else I did, even made it up to the elite for a spat (while in late high school), when a knee injury pretty much put a stop to my plans.

After high school I was drafted, as all young men were back then, but instead of finishing that off I applied to a transfer to the civilian Rescue Service instead. Not that I had any issues with the military, I just found that being a fireman or any other capacity within the emergency personnel was more interesting. I finished my training, as well as an extra year of mine sweeping (for lack of better word), then as part of the program worked as a fireman for about half a year, followed by a year of real service after that. My old knee injury got worse though and at that point I decided to study instead.

I went back to study Information System Analysis at the university, studied for a few years and alongside that I met the mother of my daughter and we had our daughter. I kept trying to play volleyball in the student leagues, which was fun for a while, but eventually I had to stop again due to the old injury.

After that real life settled in, I got a job at the Student Support governmental branch and while I've had various roles there, for the past year and a half I've been working with datawarehousing and supplying our statistics personnel or various other governmental branches and even the media with whatever material they need. It's fun and I don't plan on moving, I get to dig up stuff about any conceivable part of the work we do, develop new user-friendly front-ends for stuff they want on a regular basis and lots of fun and varying stuff.

As for hobbies, I am a game-a-holic just like the rest of you. Games like citybuilders, roleplaying games, strategy games and squad-based tactical games make up for a bulk of my collection. Few MMOs stuck with me, so while I tried almost all of them, Guild Wars and EVE were the only ones I really fell for. I'm definitely not one for mainstream gaming. You can probably call me an elitist PC-user too, as the only console I have is the old Nintendo Gamecube for Zelda

My achilles heel are squad-based strategy games with base-building. So I spent countless of hours on playing the X-COM games, the Jagged Alliance games, UFO-trilogy, the new Jagged Alliance. I also have a soft spot for strategic games and city/civilization-builder games, so the older Command & Conquer games, Red Alert etc, Civilization and Simcity are responsible for countless hours of lost sleep as well over the decades. The Dawn of War series was like a match made in heaven for me, I hadn't lost myself in gaming like that for years before they came out ... it was almost as bad as back in the X-COM days

I also love reading, but only when I find my inner calm. When I do though, I disappear just as badly as I do when starting a new city in Simcity 4 or a new game of UFO Afterlife ... scary, sometimes. Luckily even the heaviest of books end, and I return to the land of the living

[Cernnunos Gunn]

Wow - I am honored to fly with such interesting people =) This is very interesting, and I hope more will post!

[McSnarf]

Long story :

Grew up on top of a public library, which meant the chance of reading more books than most families could have afforded. Started programming while in secondary school, around 1975. As the computer I was allowed to use was at a place called DESY in Hamburg, earned some money sorting out results from one of the experiments, TASSO, which I also helped build. These guys found something called a gluon later (sticky, colourful stuff).

Army - mandantory at that time. Ranger training first, which does wonders to your physical fitness. They then found out I could program and I ended up behind a computer screen. (And got recalled a number of times.)

Studied commercial computer sciences, then wrote software for a while. Commercial stuff, some system utilities - and if you wonder how the state railway calculated it's fares, I can tell you that they did (do?) weird stuff; I wrote the core of the program used to calculate them in the late 80s. Also worked on a software for a huge pawnbroker - very interesting to work on site there. Later positions included systems administrator, network administrator, EDP manager, freelance consultant and full-time trainer (topics like the OSI reference model and Linux, fun!) until I started working for a largish company where at the moment, I am responsible for an obscure branch of information security, but also do things like training, nth level support and export control. Let's see how long this will last.

On the hobby side? Took up sailing after running a water skiing boat in my youth. I still read a lot, if not as much as I used to. Then there is cooking and baking (things like bread, no cakes), playing computer games (EVE, a bit of Minecraft, waiting for the next Real Good FPS) and being married.

Life in a Nutshell - there ya go...

[Ixxc]

Also some military background here. Officer training in a branch best described as recon rangers. As mentioned earlier it gets you in even better shape than you were during selection. About 2 years service after that before applying for international duty. 17 months in UN and later NATO forces in former Yugoslavia during the conflict there. Put my beret on the shelf after that and started civilian flight training. Flying Boeings today for a major European Airline which should explain my irregular EVE log ins. Btw. Cass is mentioning quite a lot of favourites of mine gamewise, UFO and Jagged alliance is at the absolute top of my list

[Haresis Prichart]

I write for a gaming website, a cohost of a successful podcast, and I attempt to race my bicycle.

In order of success.

You get to decide if it's ascending or descending. : )

[Dante Caine]

i work on stuff for uni ^^ see http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=52710&start=15 to find out what that is huehuehue

[Sonny Dang]

FINISHING IB !!!!! almost done and free ! GUISE !! I'm getting out of jail !!!!

[Dante Caine]

FINISHING IB !!!!! almost done and free ! GUISE !! I'm getting out of jail !!!!

lol i did the IB but here is the great thing once you get out of the IB university starts so you get a year of freedom and after that you are once again a slave

[Dallas Aldurald]

I play roller derby. Technically I go to college too and hold down a job, but mostly I skate. I am always sore and I always have some horrible bruise, and 3 weeks ago I broke another girl's ribs. It is the best thing ever.

Let me see, I also keep tarantulas and have cats. I do terrible MLP fan art. And I read the Uni forums late at night when I can't sleep.

No military service, just a lot in the family. Marines, Navy, Air Force... Actually my family came to the US from Germany in 1636 and have spent considerable time in the navy. I'm related to Sylvanus Thayer, the father of West Point, and Abott Thayer, who has art hanging in the Smithsonian and developed modern camoflage for use in the military (though at the time they said he was crazy and it would never work and he went kinda nuts trying to get our military to adopt it, which they finally did of course but posthumously) and a lot of historical fellows that I won't bore you with.

Been enjoying reading everyone else's posts in this thread!

[Dr Agropoly]

I grew up around martial arts and have been training Kyukushinkai karate for most of my life with the exception for a couple of years in my mid teens when I pursued a carrer in extreme skiing and spent all my time working hard and skiing hard for about 9 months a year. When I was 20 i joined the swedish navy's special forces where I was a sniper. I still work in the reserves with educating special forces in tactical sniping and specialized tactics such as urban and coastal warfare. I also still run a martial arts center but I'm not that hands on any more because of a knee injury, we offer classes in Kyukushin, Escrima, Brazilian Jiu-jutsu and mma plus we have a gym that is open to members both from our martial arts courses but membership is open for anyone so we have quite a lot of people that just come to us to train in the gym or join our kettle-bell classes.

When it comes to gaming I play a lot of Eve mostly but I also enjoy the occasional historic real time strategy game, now days Shogun: Total war is my favorite. I also used to be quite active in a world of tanks clan where I fc'd alot in our effort to conquer land in clan wars but after a while I got sick of the poor support for the game and I found Eve about 5 months ago and haven't looked back since. Between those things I spend as much time as possible with my kids, an 8 year old girl and a 4 year old boy.

RL and duplicate bridge, which has about as much to do with RL as Eve!

[Korleil]

Currently my job is to watch over loans that customers use to invest in RSP's. (401k's for the American unistas, or Superannuation for the Aussies) Talking about it is akin to a prescription-strength sedative, but it's useful at parties when I want to get out of a conversation.

In the past, I've been a...

-medical equipment shipper
-telemarketer (there's still a blackened part of my soul I can't scrub clean)
-event planner
-lawyer botherer (you know "getting called to the bar"? I worked at the "bar" and annoyed lawyers all day)
-tour guide
-student loan collector (sad & draining, but at least I didn't have to work on the American loans)
-computer parts inspector
-actor (mostly theatre, only landed a couple of commercials)
-mystery shopper
-stand-up comedian (even less success than acting)
-taxi driver
-youth counsellor
-dishwasher

Not surprisingly, I've never managed to keep at a hobby for more than a few months to be worth noting. The fact that my EVE account is still active after all this time is a miracle.

Beyond that I live a typical suburban life just outside of Toronto with a wife, new baby boy and a dog... none of which have grown sick of me yet, woohoo!