Your Gamer Tag Carries More Weight Than Your Resume
OK. I’ve been an IT engineer for over 10 years now, and I’ve carried titles from assistant system administrator to senior systems and network administrator and IT manager. So this is not a situation at all where my resume is just some throwaway list of things that I think I’ve done in my career; I’ve worked hard for that street cred and it’s served me well. But that gamer tag? That’s a different story, dawg. I used to be a semi-professional gamer way back in the days of Quake 1 and Quake 3 Arena, and even today when I go back to those games or if I’m playing something else and I happen to find someone who used to play those games, the mention of my gamer tag “silence” (more appropriately [D3M] silence cause I rep that Team D3M that I founded way back) rings out in way with more reverence than my resume ever could. Just the other day, I was perusing through some Quake 1 forums where the old heads still hang from time to time and came across one cat’s greatest Quake 1 Clan Arena players ever and who else but ya boy silence aka sil aka DM3 Abandoned Base Water King is on the High Ping Bastard list.