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Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 3

Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 3

Today we reach the final oh so exciting conclusion of how my dorky horse hobby is almost exclusively responsible for my career.  In Part 1, Sim Horse Chat I developed strong typing and descriptive skills, and in Part 2, Automated Sim Games I discovered Photoshop in a major way… but the real reason that simming helped me get my career is learning web design. Even though sim chat and automated sim games were fun, my favorite sim games to play…

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Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 2

Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 2

In Part 1, Sim Horse Chat I fessed up to my secret horse sim addiction that’s been around since I was a kid. While Sim Horse Chat helped my typing and descriptive skills, discovering automated Sim Horse games really opened up a new world to me. Hello Photoshop! Automated Sim Horse Games are sites that have a sign-up, usually a fee to play, and run in a similar fashion: you buy/sell/breed virtual horses that have stats, train them to improve…

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Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 1

Sim Horse Games Got Me My Career – Part 1

I am a closet sim horse game player.  There, I said it.  The weight of years of hiding behind my fake cyber ponies has been unlifted!  Really I should say I’m a former sim horse game player, because I don’t exactly have time for such things at the moment but I will tell you one thing: I owe my career to these games. That may sound drastic, but it’s true.  I went to college for English Education (high school teaching), and I…

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