3) First Job Advance

After landing on Victoria Island, I went about discovering this new place. I felt thrilled about this challenge and again the desire to become competent kicked in. As I moved from place to place, I finally began to level up till I was 10.

Here's the big milestone in my "career" - I could choose my vocation!

One gets to choose from 4 possible vocations:

1. Thief
2. Magician
3. Warrior
4. Bowman

I chose warrior. Somehow, perhaps due to my sporting nature, I seem to have a preference for characters with strength. I just like them. I was thrilled - now I can start my journey to discover the special skills available to warriors.

Unfortunately, the "city" where I was made a warrior was also contained some of the more depressing landscape in Victoria Island - lot's of brownish hills and totem poles. And awful looking tree stumps enemies to go along. This was so different from the common enemies in the other towns offering job advances in the other categories.

Anyhow, I managed to level up a little bit more till level 11 and I had made enough mesos to buy some cool warrior weapons and armour.

Analysis
This phase was driven by my desire to attain the "specialist skills" of a warrior. Probably the innate desire to be strong also drove my effort. Of course I was also carried along by the desire to explore more places. However, to get through some places, I just had to become stronger.