3. I have a Proposal: Everyone in /r/screenwriting should comment with professions/...

I have a Proposal: Everyone in /r/screenwriting should comment with professions/locations they have a lot of personal experience with so we can use each other as a resource

I'm just getting into script writing and just found this reddit, but I do have experience with the following:

  • being raised in an Apocalyptic Cult / spending time in a bomb shelter
  • broad conspiracy theory knowledge
  • wide range of martial arts experience: 15 years Olympic Taekwondo, 7 years Aikido/Aikijujutsu, 4 years Tai Chi, 4 years traditional Okinawan (Goju Ryu/Jundokan) Karate, 3 years Muay Thai kickboxing, 1 year Krav Maga, 1 year Bagua, bits and pieces of half-a-dozen more
  • self-taught knowledge on running (now multiple) martial arts schools / 10+ years of teaching experience with students aged 4-75
  • living on $4-500/month as an assistant martial arts instructor for several years
  • politics / scams within multi-national martial arts organizations
  • general practical self-defense / knife / gun / multiple-attacker tactics
  • "supernatural" martial arts experiences (limbs "paralyzed" without being touched, long-term injuries vanishing after 5-minutes of "chi massage", being reduced to near-weeping by a blow that barely made contact or didn't at all, Aikido 6th Dan being "immovable" despite 5 grown men pushing him)
  • computer game addiction / escape from
  • years of intimate interactions with an alcoholic brother on meth
  • moving every year-or-two growing up
  • 20 years near-suicidal depression / 7 years without any depression (no medications involved)
  • wide-ranging religious / philosophical / psychological / spiritual / self-help knowledge and experience
  • several week-long experiences living 100% in-the-moment in near-bliss
  • several years professional painting experience
  • psychotic girlfriend/stalking ex-girlfriend experience
  • accruing 20+ agent rejections on each of several novels
  • two decades+ role-playing game experience in dozens of systems / RPG, Computer, Board game design principles + theory
  • degree in Computer Science
  • childhood bully experiences
  • life in small-town Montana / ghetto trailer parks / daily life in -20 to -40°F weather
  • hundreds of experiences being in the car with a drunk driver as a child
  • a summer as a door-to-door salesman as a college student
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