Oh this looks interesting since i stuffed nearly 1000 hours of gameplay to 6 months i remember how i started playing the game.
Ofcourse i started as an assitant probably everyone started to play as greytider but doesnt even feel like its worth to mention it but it was good for me to learn controls, UI and especially the game terms everyone was using like AA and HoP and stuff...
After few rounds i realized that library while being public and most visited(i mean passing by) area it wasn't really that important to anyone and i often saw bookshelfs empty so i wanted to change that and actually add extra interactions to anyone that wanted to visit library so it was my second ever job.
After i was used to controls and UI a bit more my third job was security officer because i thought it would be fun you know being on the mind "i am gonna help people today" and so but it ended up as getting hated by people because i was new and usually died in maints to various antags, still i had good times too and enjoyed it.
After some weeks i think i played more basic jobs that i should have played earlier like cargo tech, doctor and QM maybe a janitor too but i wasn't really interested in service or miner jobs usually but cargo was good since you had busy working with crate dragging and taking requests from people its fun but i prefer to work alone.
And in a round as a QM, captain of that round made me acting HoP for a while and it was very exciting to me so i played QM for a good amount of time for making cargo better(not giving clowns multitool for example lol) and just to be acting HoP by any change but then i realized that if i want to play HoP i needed to get that hours in command so i played few rounds as HoS and mostly as CMO for it, i don't really play this jobs anymore i was not the best at it :) and i did not have interest to play in command roles except HoP really.
After getting enough hours being HoP was literally my favorite job for weeks and then i thought the reason... was it because i had cute Ian? Feeling like an important person? Bridge chilling? No but i liked it because... uhm... i was thinking that i was doing my job better than any other HoP simply because i was mostly manning my desk and not closing shutters while doing whatever the fuck else and checking my departments especially botany as well as ensuring kitchen always had food basically serving people better!
With same logic i started to play as paramedic since some paramedics was going cyro so quick or not checking crew monitor at all while people were lying dead in maints also paramedic has a cool space suit and weee wooo ambulance its cool and fun saving people.
So i mostly played as Paramedic, HoP or as security officer all because i wanted to help and serve better to people (and because i thought that i was doing my jobs better than most other people) with the things that can effect their round. This was my purpose since i started to play as librarian. Trying to make better experiences in rounds for people!
I also had some round as chemist and scientist filling public fridge and making fires sci-chem is fun.
Though nowadays i mostly play as assitant, return of the tide!!! Becuse its chilling and not bad for roleplaying too
Sorry if this was long lol i wanted to write.
