Do car salespeople play poker
Aug. 26th, 2010 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysAn additional about the picture of the Brera that I posted yesterday. The reason I had that picture was because I was loading it into a jigsaw puzzle program I have on my laptop. It is a good program for doing on-screen jigsaw puzzles but it has a very limited image library so I have been on the lookout for suitable images for puzzles in the 150-200 piece size range. Much bigger than that and they don't work so well on screen and in any case they take too long to solve and I'm only after short term diversion.
Where I'm going with this is that for some time now, I have been working as a Business Analyst. In my last job I was part of a BA team. It turned out that all of us liked to do jigsaw puzzles - much more so than the general workforce of the company. In an otherwise diverse bunch of people it was interesting that this was our most shared pastime. Interesting but not that surprising. You see, being a BA requires you to collect lots of bits of information, sort and analyse them and put them together into a coherent whole. The mindset needed to do the job and do the puzzle is very similar.
So the question I'm asking is, are there other games and similar activities out there that are characteristic of a particular occupation? In particular, activities that appeal to that group because they appeal to the same things that got them into that line of work anyway.
Where I'm going with this is that for some time now, I have been working as a Business Analyst. In my last job I was part of a BA team. It turned out that all of us liked to do jigsaw puzzles - much more so than the general workforce of the company. In an otherwise diverse bunch of people it was interesting that this was our most shared pastime. Interesting but not that surprising. You see, being a BA requires you to collect lots of bits of information, sort and analyse them and put them together into a coherent whole. The mindset needed to do the job and do the puzzle is very similar.
So the question I'm asking is, are there other games and similar activities out there that are characteristic of a particular occupation? In particular, activities that appeal to that group because they appeal to the same things that got them into that line of work anyway.