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General Discussion / Re: What motivates crewmen to serve on a space adventurer's warship?
« on: January 18, 2018, 09:32:30 PM »
If history is any judge? "It's a living."
You don't need an amazing, life-changing reason to go to space (or the sea, for that matter). If you have the skillset, it's a worse job than some but better than many. If you're looking for a job and a position on a ship opens up, what the hell, why not? It's room and board and pay. How much do you really want out of life, anyways? The strangeness of life on a ship is just a new normal to get used to, that's all, and you learn to build a life around it, same as you do for every other job. And if for whatever reason you started out with the appropriate skillsets, you may not necessarily have a lot of choice in the matter - shipboard skills aren't always transferable one-to-one with shoreside skills, and some people find it difficult to adjust to the less structured nature of landbound life after they've spent a while on a ship. If you grew up as a spacer in a spacer family, you could well find yourself falling into the job because it's what you know, and no better reason than that.
You don't need an amazing, life-changing reason to go to space (or the sea, for that matter). If you have the skillset, it's a worse job than some but better than many. If you're looking for a job and a position on a ship opens up, what the hell, why not? It's room and board and pay. How much do you really want out of life, anyways? The strangeness of life on a ship is just a new normal to get used to, that's all, and you learn to build a life around it, same as you do for every other job. And if for whatever reason you started out with the appropriate skillsets, you may not necessarily have a lot of choice in the matter - shipboard skills aren't always transferable one-to-one with shoreside skills, and some people find it difficult to adjust to the less structured nature of landbound life after they've spent a while on a ship. If you grew up as a spacer in a spacer family, you could well find yourself falling into the job because it's what you know, and no better reason than that.