How Do You Have Time To Play Video Games?

Unemployed, I spend a lot of time job hunting, reviewing or learning job skills, software or books related to my career. Then I occasionally try to put in some time in some possible money making ventures. From 8:30 am to 3 pm I watch stocks on one monitor while I do other stuff on the other monitor. So in between the time I wake up, from 6, 7, or 8 am to 10 pm when I sleep - I game a little. Maybe just 1 hr to 2 hrs a day. Noon is my favorite time to check the next Steam Deal.

If you work FT, how much time do you have to game after work? Do you put off sleep or checking your emails just to game? Like some of you already have 60 to 100 hrs of Skyrim...

When I was working FT I hardly gamed for awhile because my entertainment was mainly web forums. But now I'm back into gaming a little.

 

1. Evening instead of TV
2. Saturday during laundry
3. Hangover on Sunday

 

This is probably not a good use of your time. The marginal income gained (the income you get from handling your personal stock portfolio this way minus the income you would have gained were you not watching them constantly) is almost certainly much smaller than trying to make money using traditional methods (job or working towards one). You're probably netting about even versus leaving the stocks alone, but it's costing you 6 1/2 hours every day. That time could be worth quite a lot.

 

I'm not 100% of the time watching stocks; only a quick glance every 5, 10 or 15 minutes and that keeps me up to date. I multi task so my time is productive. And my 2 very large monitors help - Samsung 25.5" 1920 x 1200, Dell 30" LCD 2560 x 1600.

I rarely watch tv too. I rarely use my mid fi stereo system, instead I play mp3s on my high end computer sound system [Asus Xonar D2X sound card, Creative T40 Series 2 speakers, Velodyne VX-11 low power energy efficient digital subwoofer].

When I sure do need a quick break I game. Right now I either play Orcs Must Die or to the next checkpoint of Batman or Mafia 2. Still in the campaign tutorial of Shogun 2 and it 6 hrs played already.

 

I've been out of work for a while, but raising two little kids. As they get older, my free time comes in longer chunks, but still rarely more than 30 minutes. Since I can't do much else besides housework, I usually just web surf or game when the kids are preoccupied with other things. I can only handle so much legos, matchbox cars, dominos, and tiddly winks.

When I was full time, it was mostly before I had kids, so evenings, weekends, whatever. I usually didn't need more than 6 or so hours of sleep at night, where my wife needed a good 8, so that freed up a couple hours most night if we had "together" time.

Although I'm looking to go back to work full time again soon, so with kids and full time, I'm sure my gaming time, or any other free time will be greatly limited.

 

I work 40 hours per week, second shift on weekdays 3:30pm to 11:30pm. I mostly game after I get home from work for an hour or two, or when I wake up around noon. Plenty of time on weekends as well.

 

This. When I'm not deployed I work 6am-5pm. I go to bed around midnight. So that leaves almost 6 hours a night to game. Most of the games I play require a Que time, or I'm usually waiting on friends, so I browse the internet/check emails during that time. On the weekends I spend 4-6 hours a night partying/drinking and that leaves almost 12 hours a day to game.

I'm not sure how you don't have time to game. You're clearly mismanaging your time (especially if you're not married and don't have a job).

 

I'm a full-time student with a part-time job and a girlfriend of 3 and a half years. I'm generally gone from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. I game only on weekends when I have free time.

 

1. Work the AM shift 5 days / week (9am-4pm)
2. Once I get home, I browse NBR forums and tech deals
3. Eat dinner while watching a streamed TV episode
4. 6pm to 12am I either game or compose electronic music
5. Days off are spontaneous

Rinse & Repeat until a good chunk of student loans are paid off.

 

I have two children and a time-consuming job. I game for 30-90 minutes a night after everyone else is asleep as a stress reliever before going to sleep.

 

Full time student, part time worker. Three hours a day, on average... but I never get around to gaming... more like arguing with people on the internet about video games, lol.

 

I only have time to play games 2-4 h per week, mostly on weekends. So you can bet I suck in most games

 

I work in IT Operations for a London bank... fulltime, shift work, shift pattern is:

4x early shifts (7:30am to 3:30pm) then in the evening I tend to make dinner, spend time with the missus, catch up on TV together and whatnot

4x middle shifts (3:30pm to 10:30pm) my main gaming time, with the shift times changing I tend to wake up about 12 in the afternoon, do some housework, chill for a bit or head into town/gym before work... when I get home by 11:30pm my girlfriend is already asleep and this leaves me 4 or 5 hours to chill and game

4x late shifts (10:30pm to 7:30am) I'll basically get nothing done, sleeping from about 10am to 5pm and having an evening with the girlfriend before going into work.

4-6x "off shifts" depending on whether our days off will fall over a weekend can then get 4 to 6 days off, during the week my girlfriend and friends work anyway so I'll spend most of the day either at the gym or playing games.

1x weekend a month (12 hour shifts, 7:30am to 7:30pm or visa versa) I hate 12 hour shifts but we only have to do 1 weekend a month (I'm doing one right now... work is obviously busy today!)



While doing shift work can be a pain it does leave me with a lot of time off and definitely a lot of time to game, prob manage 10-15hours a week providing I'm on middle shifts or off

 

On weekdays normally I can afford 1-2 hrs max. During the weekend it can go to 4-6 hrs.

 

As a Student I usually can play 2 hours a day, though it all depends on how much homework I have on any given day. On the weekends, it's pretty random.

EDIT: Lunch is when I game the most, gaming relieves the stress from my morning classes and gets me ready for the ones to come.

 

I'm in the lovely space before starting a new job, with quite some time left before I start. Going to enjoy it while I can, because once I start it's going to be 100-hour workweeks. Mumble.

He could be a great day trader, for all we know.

... or handling a stock portfolio worth US$100m.

 

Erm, I'm a student, and I only play on weekends.
That's how I tend to balance it out.

 

Yea, it's not too hard. Most games have lots of checkpoints, or only <1hr matches so you can easily just play for 1-2 hours on Saturday or 1-2 hours on Sunday. That's what I do. A little more during holiday/3-day weekends. You can be a "gamer" and only play 1-2 hours a week.

Most people waste that much time trying to figure out what they want to wear in the morning.

I think I'm more productive/enjoying the experience more during the first hour of play, and degraded return after. For example, when I first got BC2, I would play for a few hours at a time. My first match of the night was always the best...then I just got consistently worse as my eyes tired or it lost my attention, etc, later into the night. So I learned just to play one or two matches a time...then call it a night.

 

not necessarily, I work in the stock market, when you trade future indexes, a single minute can make a large difference.

I dont game anymore, the last game I played was mw3, on a lazy sunday, glad that the single player was done in 5h.

my schedule is basically 6am (gym), 8am get to work, 9am at work until 6pm, uni from 7pm to 11pm, 11:30pm arrive at home, study until 2am.

Saturdays I also have classes.... so yeah, weekends is basic gone cleaning the house from the happy hour on friday, and doing laundry, not to mention studying.

I think I will try to play ME1 today, currently its downloading it will finish 10pm, so I can get 2 hours out of it

 

I do it at night for about an hour or two

 

Make a long story short - I treat it like a second job... Work Days I play after work - Off Days I play on-and-off all day...

 

I have job where there are many hours of utter boredom. Some people watch TV, others play cards, I play video games.

 

I LOVE IT!

 

everyday working on 8am to 5pm, weekends off

after work, 1.5 hours of gaming depending on the mood

 

Same way I do it. I'm away from the house from 0630 until 1930 for work. I eat dinner and play with the 3 kids from 1930 to 2100 until their bedtime, play with the wife from 2100 to 2230 ;-) until she goes to sleep, and then I have about an hour to game before I go to bed. Weekends I can usually manage to squeeze in about 12hrs cause the kids like playing too so we'll do Call of Duty multiplayer for a few hours both days.

 

Other than the fact that I'm not hungover on Sundays, this. My entertainment options at home are computer or books, and a lot of times I want a calm evening after work, so that leaves a decent amount of time for games.

It probably also helps that I don't have any children or other significant time commitments outside of work.

 

That's an admirable amount of drive. For me, being up until 2 means I'm not going to be awake at 6 to go to the gym.

Judging by your work schedule - you're not a trader, I'm guessing? It seems to me like most standard trading is going to go out the door, though. The quants are just killing all of the usual markets, leaving just exotics and alternatives for those who still want to make a name for themselves as traders.

 

I work 40 hours a week from 9 to 5, so I actually have plenty of time for gaming when I get home, especially on the weekends where I have the whole day to myself. The only thing keeping me from actually doing so is feeling lazy or wanting to take a nap.

 

No, Im not a trader per se, while I do trade, mostly mini future index and papers, there are quite different rules for trading regarding US and Brazil.

Dolar opens at 9am - ends at 4:30pm

indexes and derivatives at 9:30am to 10am - ends at 6pm

Bovespa at 11am - ends at 6pm, aftermarket at 6:30 - 7:30pm

I work as a ''consultant'', meeting clients and so forth, providing personalized services to them.

From what I understand from the US managed funds, its a good time to buy some papers, since they are going to be left out from some portfolios

 

I work four days on and four days off in an ISP NOC. I spend half my four days off playing MMOs and the other half studying for certifications (which usually means watching junk on Netflix). No real change working day or night shift. Also, my wife and I have no kids and our closest family is 1,000 miles away.

 

well, I am FT and I am trying to spare some free time instead of surfing the web a lot, I go BF3/Skyrim I think if you do what you need to do in time, you don't need to worry about it a lot, everybody must slack up at some point after all

man, how can you comeup with 8 days in a week??

 

Saturday late night and a few hours on Sunday.

 

I used to play video games all the time, then I took an arrow in the knee.

 

I've learned that you can make time for anything that you want to make time for, generally. I do play games during breaks, but during the school year, I stop entirely. Too many other commitments and there's better places to spend my time.

 

Well, I usually play my games in between breaks, if I don't have that much school work to do, or it's simply vacation.

 

I am employed and I just play when I get home from work or on the weekends when I'm not doing something important or fun, unless the Patriots or Bruins are on.

 

when everyone else goes to sleep at night and/or go to family functions without me, of course the new addition has altered everyone's sleep schedule

alot of times i only play a half our here and there, i get bored easily....

off topic but its kind of funny....there was one day i was playing sanctum and wasn't thinking i sat my laptop on the couch to go tend to the kido and basically forgot about it, i came back and you could have fried an egg on the laptop....

 

I have retired from the rat race. I only do part time consulting now, so I have a great deal of free time.

 

I don't work!

 

I used to play video games a lot like around 30-40 hours a week. Was a hobby, hate TV. Now It's down to about 1-3 hours a week. Don't have time anymore but it's a cheap form of entertainment and beats watching TV.

 

I am Santa Claus, so I have 364 days off a year. All my Oompah Loompah's do all the work for me the rest of the year.

 

Unicorns poop out unrefined time. You can do anything you want with it. Anything.

 

I hace Vbagx on my phone so I play Pokemon everytime I go to the restroom, and that's about it, I don't have much time

 

send me some of those unicorns, can use the extra time

 

I have 2 older kids and play with / against them in various games when I can. I try to play at least a little each day just to blow off steam from the day.

 

Yes! The Unicorn! Infinite Time to play Games!
But when I run out of Unicorn poop I just treat my Gaming like a second job: Full-Time with a few breaks here and there...