thefourthvine | Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

makesmewannadie is visiting me, and we got to talking, as we often do. (Okay. Full disclosure: the actual challenge would be making us shut the fuck up.) And one thing we talked about reminded me of a poll I'd considered posting lo these many moons ago, to test a hypothesis that I can't very well tell you beforehand. (Bias is death to informal and statistically skewed LJ polls, my friends.)

So, first, let me just say: hey, it'd be cool if you'd take this poll. I would love you and stuff.

Second - when I say "your friends list," I mean the portion of your friends list that you read regularly - your default reading filter, if you have one, or the whole list if that's how you read. (If you don't read your friends list at all, this poll is not going to be a good fit for you.) My point is, I want you to consider the people you know the best. (Which is not to say you necessarily know them well, of course.) And when I say "the average," I mean your own personally assessed average of this trait over your friends list.

And, seriously, there are no bad answers here. I'm only wondering where you fit into your own mental picture of your friends list for these particular variables. I know you may not have great data for all these questions; just give me your first reaction, and I will of course love you forever.

ETA: Please don't go back to change your answers after you've finished the poll and seen the results! (Unless you think of something you want to add to the text box, or you've decided shoes are more important than almost-cock. Those questions are weighty and take long consideration; I understand that.)

[Poll #931955]

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It never occurred to me that fandom would *not* be wrapt into the package. *g* It might just be me, though - Vic (below) had the same response.

- hg

Yeah, I assumed career success, when I read that.

Me four at this point. I went for career success.

Me 5.

*throws up hands*

All I can say is, I love my job, I love what I'm going to do, but god help me if the only thing I thought of when someone said success was what produced my paycheck.

(Okay, I can see that other people think that way, okay, fine, but really - kids don't count? the kind of work you do? your place in the community? It's all position and paycheck? Or am I reading too much into it?)

*shakes head, really bemused and surprised at fandom/flist*

- hg

Well, I don't know if I mean purely career, I didn't put that much thought into it. What I know is that I didn't mean *fandom*.

I think that assuming people meant "pure career" was a misstep on my part.

I wasn't, myself, specifically thinking of things that had to go into "being successful", but when I think of "having a successful life" I know I wrapt fannishness in with that - having something to love, something to be enthusiastic about, having friends, being creative, doing something well, being useful to others.

It can't make my life successful alone, just as neither work nor family (including my parents and siblings) nor church nor writing could. But if I were miserable and utterly incompetent at my hobbies, I wouldn't feel successful, either.

*shrugs and waves and flails* I'm - I guess I spoke too strongly because I'm just gobsmacked that other people (so many other people!) didn't including being fannish as part of what made them successful.

*is still possibly confused*

- hg

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