Friday, December 9, 2016

Subtle Geek Pride


Sometimes I struggle with the duality of the life I live.

I work in a very professional, educational setting in which, at the current job I work, I don't even get to wear jeans on Fridays. After work, I get home, throw on my Hufflepuff sweatpants and my favorite Princess Peach tee-shirt and throw on my gamer headphones and play the latest expansion of Hearthstone for a few hours after playing with my dog in the snow. It is hard during those moments to feel like a professional woman with a graduate degree.

What is harder is to keep that passion for video games and general geek-ness alive at work. Actually, just had to explain to an individual who works in HR what my husband does for a living, as it came up in casual conversation that my husband was in Boston for "work." Oh, so what does your husband do?"..... *sigh* "Well......"

Lately, in today's world, having subtle, yet stylish representations of video game and geek pride for women have been an increasing trend for places like ThinkGeek (full disclosure, liked them a lot more when they were not owned by Gamestop, but that's a whole other blog post that I now have written in my head), and Blizzard and other prominent producers of gamer swag. 

I asked my Facebook friends if they had anything they loved to wear that was subtle, but geekish that they wore to work. I got a few awesome answers:


My new friend Sarah sent me pictures of her Solar System Necklace from Thinkgeek


LBHackEmUp rocking a cute Navi necklace 


Super cute triforce earrings on my friend Elle




I have a few things, but definitely lacking in the subtle, yet classy representation of geek.

My favorite is probably the Hearthstone necklace I wear probably 2-3 times a week:

A few weeks after Blizzcon 2015

Featuring the one and only Breakycpk in 2016



I also put a Lego brick keychain on my name badge so I can put my badge with my keys: 



Gotta represent the BATMAN

Added the yellow top recently. I think it looks better :) 


These don't even include all the sports-geek side of my life, which I also kind of inherited from Breaky
What are some of your favorite subtle ways to show your geek pride at work? Do you have something at your desk? A scarf or two? Let's help each other and get more representation of geek culture in our professional lives!


3 comments:

  1. I've never really put much thought to the difficulty one has with keeping/or trying to keep parts of their life separate. I think that the best thing is to show off the sports-geek side in a subtle manner such as the ways that you've been doing - and if someone in your professional life happens to ask about an accessory, a coffee cup, etc. then you've the opportunity to expand someone's knowledge base. The only other thing I'd advise - be nice about it, and try not to come across as a know-it-all. Best of luck!

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  2. I wear a triforce necklace nearly all the time, it's fun seeing who really knows what it is! Also sometimes get away with my Stark wolf emblem necklace too!

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  3. I have an awesome stormtrooper scarf that unless you look closely just looks like a geometric pattern. Although it can be quite difficult to find items for sure.

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