Besides, it's been proven that people will lie about anything given the opportunity, and it doesn't really matter where or why so long as they think it benefits them or serves some particular purpose they see as being more important than the truth.

I would point out that we're not sampling the entire game population here. By Krixtal's blatantly incorrect assumptions, the average age would probably be 20.

No, I'm a scholar; he's just a guy who presumably has a lot of degrees. At least they are related; it's not like he threw up a PHD in Astrophysical Egineering or something. The thing that gets me, is that he is both a soldier and a Vice President Otherwise I might believe it.

The soldier is not that hard to believe if you understand the military system in the US. I'm a reservist - meaning one weekend a month and two weeks a year. I joined the Army at 17, used it to pay for my education (all of it), to give me experience that I could leverage into a civilian career. After active duty I landed a job as a sourcing manager with GE, then parlayed that into another job, so on and so forth. I've stayed in the reserves, because I enjoy it. I'm on my 3rd enlistment in fact. So that is how I am both a soldier and VP. The VP position came in January. It's a junior position, but it's nice to be in the executive band. I could stop getting degrees by now, since the military experience, the veteran status, and my civilian resume mean that I can basically command whatever job I want. But it's free with my reserve benefits, so I see no reason to stop educating myself, especially if I have time (I take online courses in the evening). My final degree will assure me a very technical overview of business and perhaps a boardroom position in 10 to 15 years.

True, but I think most people here are telling the truth. Because for most, there is no incentive or reason to lie.

..that's just naive.

Most people who responded are not frequent forum posters, why would they care enough to lie? (Not accusing any frequent posters of lying either)

This is more of a fun thread where you seem to be the only passionate one.

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Overall, it's actually been a dungheap couple of years that's only recently came to a head so I'm pretty pissy.

You might be right, but it has been my experience that people on the internet tend to embelish their personal occupations and history at the very least, if not outright lie about it. Some do tell the truth without a doubt, and kudos to them for doing so, whether their real occupation is something special or dull and ordinary like mine.

I used to think being a scholar was something important, until I grew up and realized it doesn't pay the bills and nobody cares.