Reply To: The Geek-Jock Convergence Is The End Of The World
Actually, the geek-jock convergence is both logical and inevitable, primarily because there are a lot more ways to pay the rent/put food on the table in geekery than in jockery (which if it isn’t a word, should be). I know a fair number of former/current athletes of widely variable current fitness levels in engineering/tech jobs. Even a lot of the star jocks from my high school class have found themselves in a variety of tech jobs (discounting the alarming number of attorneys my HS class spawned, though to be fair, a few of them are IP/patent attorneys). And the number of “cool kids” who have since admitted to D&D playing/cosplay obsessions/etc. is astonishing.