Difficulty Setting

Been playing B-Sieged which looks quite difficult/daunting with the hordes of enemies moving ever so close to siege the citadel. Lost the first two game miserably so didn't have much hope for the third. However with a bit of luck rolling we managed to beat the game. 

That night we had Koinonia. Talked about the difficulties serving those we work with. The mentality of the work place is often to put yourself first. So to serve others in the workplace is pretty counter productive right? Well it really depends on the goal of why we do things. As Christians we are serving to show God's love. 

The reason I put these two different subjects together is that they both talk about difficulties. Difficulty is a subjective idea because everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Was just thinking of the things that I found difficult or not difficult. I mean looking at some games I play, some people wold say how hard it is and tell me how I make it look easy or such, even though to me it is neither hard or easy. Then there are things others do that I find extremely difficult/impossible but they seem to do it with such ease. Now breaking that down there are aspects of things we do that I find easy but others that I find hard. Like I don't find it hard working, doing menial tasks but I find it hard to get a job. So would it be said that I find work in general hard because I can't even get work? 

I find interacting with children relatively easy to what others have said but I find it hard to study to be able to work in the business even though I have the skills. But this comes down to how the world works. You need a piece of paper to say what you can do, and you need the skills to be able to put that proof on paper. Reading and writing isn't my thing as you can probably find reading my blogging but these are required skills for general education. Practical skills are great but doesn't exactly transfer to paper to hand in to my teacher. I know there are Cert and Diploma level stuff that grade more on practical skills but to teach you need a Bachelor. Even the guy I talked to study a Diploma said it was a waste and that I should study Bachelor if I wanted to teach. Does that mean I should just give up on teaching?

Practical skills also don't transfer to job interviews. All they can see is what is written down and possibly what they hear from referees. I don't have any interview skills so that's mostly what they see. Apparently I didn't know what was appropriate to wear to interviews (no I didn't wear anything dodgy) and that I need to practice interview answers which shows the little I know about interviews ... 

In the end it looks like I have the wrong skills to enter into what I want to. I think what I need to do is get some help. Some professional help ...

Boarding it

Thought this might be a good place to start. I just got back so started back up the board gaming with the SCGH and BWMC people on Thursday and Friday nights respectively. Originally the idea was to bring the two groups together so that we from different church can get to know each other so that we can work together as ONE church. However it's quite hard when there isn't a regular attendance in any of the groups. I'm not the greatest at organizing stuff so it's probably just me not been able to put may intentions out there for meeting up.

Tailoring board gaming sessions is hard ... well I find it quite hard. Number of players, game time, genre, or theme are just a number of factors that will affect people's willingness play the game. Statistically with our commonality of Christianity, the likelihood we have that many more similarities, having same preferences is lower ... okay I'm rambling but do you get me? Having the same preference in board games is seriously unlikely. I've had to chose to play games that don't exactly fall in my preferences but guess that's what I need to do as game host. This isn't expected of other people. Bringing more and more people means more and more differences in preferences. Maybe I need to have a specific heavy game night and a lighter game night?

Take playing Resistance. Playing on Sunday after like 20-30 minutes two of us were already over the game. People played the game different to how other people expected so were suspected of spy just because they play different. Even under a genre, when people play dramatically different it's almost like a different game because other people need to respond differently.

Think I need to come up with a different way to organize these game nights. I did make an Excel sheet stating peoples preferences in different game properties ... maybe I can come up with something.