Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply

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• zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What, so I can be underpaid to do the most stressful and undersupported job ever, with the chance that the next political controversy may force me to go weeks or months without pay, and then feel the guilt of killing several hundred people if I screw up?

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  • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All because Reagan felt their power trip was more important than maintaining safety in a system entirely dependent on maintaining safety.

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• lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d rather play the GTA San Andreas flight missions non-stop than work for the govt in any capacity.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They went about this the wrong way. Get with a AAA studio or better yet an indie studio, build an Air Traffic Control game, and then recruit gamers. Sometimes you gotta Top Gun it.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know there’s a lot of negative sentiment here and for good reason, but I think it’s just neat whenever someone recognizes that gaming does partially prepare you for certain roles.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree games are good for life. Allow you to see situations, real and fictional, and how to escape them. Reaction speed it a good perk. Dexterity of eye/hand control.

    Puzzle solving

    Perspectives

    Reaction timing

    Just to name a few.

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• audaxdreik@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Finally! As someone who has played the only(?) available English translation of “I am an Air Traffic Controller: Airport Hero” on the 3DS, my time has COME!

  What’s that? Drug test? … Nevermind.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pass a law that any government shutdown over a week causes all of Congress to be fired, and I may consider it.

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  • Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or congress not to be paid.

    Those fuckers still get paid in full.

    They protect themselves and fuck over everyone else.

    And we keep voting them in.

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    • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Congresspeople are already rich. Shutdowns don’t really have any impact on them.

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• rozodru@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sorry but many free to play games aren’t that great so i’ll pass.

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You cant pause and restart when those planes make contact on the ground while taxiing

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True but it does put me in a good position to maximize my kill/death ratio.

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hear they can dock your pay for save scumming something about multiple timelines interfering with reality blah blah blah

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just hit F5 before you start so you can reload.

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