I've been recently hired as a tax preparer/office tech support/business-to-business marketer despite being completely untrained or qualified in any of these fields.
I believe that video games played a huge role in how I learned to see the world. In particular, the Adventure games I used to play that relied almost entirely on puzzles involving using objects in unusual ways, it really helped me develop a sense of creativity. I'm constantly solving problems at work by using the tools at hand in unusual or unorthodox ways (those hypochondriac printers!), and I know that those old adventure games were some of the first experiences I had with that form of problem-solving.
In addition, my skill as a tax preparer can almost entirely be attributed to my hours of meticulously learning every single numerical aspect of Team Fortress 2 so I could optimize my loadout and performance for competitive play. It taught me how to see the rules from multiple points of view and understand that you can't beat a system without learning it inside and out.
