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What's your special interest?

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I've noticed there a lot of posts on this forum about making friends and finding others who share an interest, so I thought I'd start a thread where people could talk about the stuff that really interests them and maybe connect with others who feel the same about that topic. I hope that's okay, and I'm sorry if a thread like this already exists and I missed it.

I know I have several interests which I get VERY excited about and would love to find others to geek out with on - as it can feel really lonely to not have people who share the same passion or get excited about the same things. But I also love listening to people talk about things that they're really passionate about too, so I would genuinely love to hear about everyone special interests too.

I find it really hard to make friends and am always cautious about talking about the things that really interest me, after years of being told that I'm weird/creepy/boring for getting obsessed with stuff that I like. But that's just me, and if I get passionate about something then I can't help but  focus on it. And that makes sense to me. Why wouldn't someone focus on something that makes them happy? 

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  • My greatest interest has to be the iconography of the London Underground, designs, fonts, station designs, maps etc. I’m not really interested in the actual rolling stock. I had an awesome Christmas present, one of the metal door panels with the ‘open’ button, maybe a little bizarre but I love it!

  • in reply to OutwardBoundBob

    I don't know just how niche it is but I worked as a cartographer at Ordnance Survey for 3 years and there were quite a few people there who were big fans of that sort of thing.

  • in reply to Daz_Hockey

    Someone on Linkedin was looking for an intro into cartography a few weeks back. I don't know if I can find them again, but before I go any further, do you know of any access routes? I spent a year with the Royal Monmouthshie RE.

  • in reply to aidie

    A year on attachment to RMRE HQ Squadron. While there, I was approached by 23 SAS, who checked me out thoroughly, and then had a job offer on the table which amounted to Bob Nairac's vacant job. I was every bit as good as they thought, I researched it properly, agreed with him (as has history) and discovered what had happened as a result. There was no way forward from there other than to be silent.

    I then went on to prove a civvy could run rings around Chicksands - they're not quite as hopeless as the Belgians, but the reality of the work really came home to me on an Iron Curtain border patrol, when we worked with similar spooks. 

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  • in reply to aidie

    A year on attachment to RMRE HQ Squadron. While there, I was approached by 23 SAS, who checked me out thoroughly, and then had a job offer on the table which amounted to Bob Nairac's vacant job. I was every bit as good as they thought, I researched it properly, agreed with him (as has history) and discovered what had happened as a result. There was no way forward from there other than to be silent.

    I then went on to prove a civvy could run rings around Chicksands - they're not quite as hopeless as the Belgians, but the reality of the work really came home to me on an Iron Curtain border patrol, when we worked with similar spooks. 

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