Thread 723072653

how do you find the time to play?

By only working 30 hours per week

>>723072653 (OP)
I don't work insane overtime like some sort of cuck

>>723072653 (OP)
In my 20s I worked my ass off. Now I am taking time off.

>>723072653 (OP)
I """""work""""" from home so I always have time to play

I work 4 10s so im off 3 days a week

>>723072653 (OP)
I have ~70 hours of free time every week to play vidya and do hobbies.

>>723072653 (OP)
I work 35 hours a week, 4 days from home. I work as a finance manager so outside of particularly busy periods I have around 2-3 of those WFH days to game. It's pretty soulless desu.

I work like 40 hours a week. I have time to play games but I don't. I just keep buying and collecting stuff while I shitpost on /v/.

I don't.

I've been playing e33 since it launched. I just reached verso. I got about one or two hours a week to play games.

This is what full time employment plus a family and kids look like.

>>723072653 (OP)
I do 8 hours of work in 4 hours so I have more time

>>723072653 (OP)
How long is your commute?

Employed people play more videogames than NEETs assuming they were smart enough to get STEM degrees.

>>723072653 (OP)
I work "part time", two weeks at the office, two weeks free. It doesn't pay much, but enough for a decent life, since I don't have rent to pay.

>>723072653 (OP)
Yesterday i had my last day of work and it feels amazing.
I got enough money to cruise along for a year or two before having to go out again

>>723073267
>they were smart enough to get STEM degrees.
I wasn't smart enough to get anything, I bailed after high school.

i go to sleep at 4am

>>723073746
Anon, what about the gap in your employment history?!

>>723073267
Computer science here. This is bull. You have more free time but you don't spend it gaming. You watch YouTube on a second monitor instead.

>>723073746
how much did you have to save up?
i miss by neet days

>>723072653 (OP)
step 1: stop asking retarded questions on 4chan

>>723072653 (OP)
Right after dinner or around 14:00 at work when everyone is still numb from lunch.

>>723074098
if you're a minimum wagie no one cares and if you want a job that requires skill they will look for that skill instead of what you jobbed before
my CV is already fucked anyway

>>723074167
i got about ~10k and can live on maybe ~500 a month easily
not american btw
its not glamorous, but its a free life

>>723074428
>~500 a month easily
with rent and shit? I can live comfortably on around 900 a month and that includes all my bills.

>>723072653 (OP)
I made investments for passive income so I could work less, now I'm at a point in my life where I have plenty of time. Lots of people go through life thinking their only relationship with money is that they have to work for it, they don't realise it can work for them.

>>723072653 (OP)
By being a /work from home/ gigachad
no time spent on commuting and other bullshit like that
believe it or not, I work super effectively while at home because I can actually concentrate

>>723074539
>dromfp makes some tarrifs
>you go homeless

>>723072653 (OP)
By neglecting sleep and having no social life
>tfw gotta go to work in 5 minutes

I work from home and play vidya while taking calls

>>723074667
Just avoid globalist garbage. Tariffs went up and fucking nothing happened to me because all my investments are in-country only.

>>723072653 (OP)
i dont have a job but wish i did. i need money
>apply
i do. keep getting rejected

After my physically exhausting security gig and then hanging out with friends, I don't. I can't even muster up 1 hour a day anymore.

>>723074838
then go to your local McDonalds and ask to see the manager
he'll give you a job then and there
>no i want a better job
beggars can't be choosers

>>723072653 (OP)
Its easy, you get home from work and then you game

>>723072653 (OP)
I only do 20 hours with some overtime if I really need it. Like this week I did some overtime on just about all my shifts because I'm going to check out that Gundam base popup in London at the end of the month.

>>723072653 (OP)
I work fully remote writing code and the workload they give me isn’t that big, so I’ll often play games on the clock and there’s no commute to steal time away. Since starting this job I now beat around 100 games a year, more than when I was unemployed or underemployed

>>723072653 (OP)
I have not gotten a single shift since September which leaves plenty of time for vidya

i have time to play during my wfh shift, but i feel like 4chan is more distracting in shorter bursts. I'll usually start an anime episode when shift starts, pause it every couple of minutes to look over a thread, before I know it, whole day has passed and ive only seen like 2 or 3 episodes the whole 8 hour shift.

I can play but i just cant fully immerse playing in short bursts

Part time work.
Why work full time when your country hates you and women are insane whores? There's nothing to strive for except saving what little money I can to take vacations to Japan and fuck Asian whores.

im a full time NEET and even i dont play vidya. i mostly browse the chan and watch youtube videos. sometimes i jerk off

is it too late to get an education and get a proper job in your 30s?

Mind you the gap in my employment history would be nothing because I've never had a job. Would anybody hire me even if I did get an education?

>>723072887
and you choose to play VR with one fat girl and one paralyzed from the waist down only able to move her arms?

>>723076036
i graduated at 32 with a accounting degree and no one will hire me

but worth it for not being considered uneducated, also parents were always on my back about it and it just feels like i have a monkey off my back now if nothing else.

Its straight up limited compared to when I was a kid. Until you retire and your kids move out, it will just be that way. You work on yourself to make your life better. When you are where you want to be, then you can chill. I mean obviously take care of yourself and liesure every now and then, but I take it an hour or two of vidya every 1-2 days isn't sitting well with you. Am I right?

>>723072653 (OP)
I only work 9-5 monday through friday, plus I work remotely. I have time to play when work is done and on weekends. I also live with my parents too so that definitely helps.

Are you guys ever hit with these extremely fleeting moments that lasts for maybe a second or two where you suddenly remember a feeling from your childhood, it's always abstract and never a concrete specific memory just the feeling hitting you, literally like traveling back in time for a moment.

It just hit me, it's like these reminders are the only parts of me that feel real

>>723072653 (OP)
Coffee or energy drink. I drink a coffee an hour before im off the clock.

>>723076391
You don't get hired in this economy unless you have connections or you can be compelled to work for peanuts under threat of deportation.

>>723077776
Why not try a moderatly caffinated tea instead? Coffee after the work day, I'm assuming 6pm-ish, sounds too late and it will mess up your sleep.

>>723073120
>plus a family and kids
I already made up my mind I don't want any of that. Why did you do it? Is it as fulfilling as people make it out to be? To me, it seems like a burden.

>>723072653 (OP)
i normally play a couple League of Legends ARAMs or Overwatch quickplay games before bed
other than that i normally find a singleplayer game that interests me and read the lore about it
big singleplayer games like elden ring don't really stick with me, since my gaming sessions are short and it feels like a chore to finish them after a while
i still enjoy shorter games, normally indie games, like metal garden, hypnagogia boundless dreams, lunacid, or recently, the demo for prison of husks, but i only enjoy these because the games are relatively short, so i can finish them before i get bored and go back to overwatch
but generally, casual pvp slop does it for me
i enjoy winning, but i don't care enough to grind ranked

>>723072653 (OP)
weekends

>>723078315
I've grown to hate LoL and MOBAs over the years, but even I have fond memories of ARAM.

>>723072653 (OP)
I work 43 hours a week and I still play plenty. The trick is to not have a retarded commute and to not act like a pensioner and refuse to do anything because you're a little tired. Just boot a game up instead of doom scrolling or spending 2 hours looking for background noise on YouTube. Do it.

Also I work security as the sole guard of a small site with next to no oversight so I just play games at work as well.

>>723072653 (OP)
By playing games when I get home? Fuck kinda question is that?

>>723078551
i think one of the reasons i still enjoy league is because i never grinded ranked
i'd pick a character that looks cool, main them in normal games until i felt comfortable with them, play them until i got bored, limit test matchups to see how strong they are, and then either go back to aram, or find a new champ
lee sin was definitely the most fun champ to learn due to his mobility options, but simple stat check champs like garen, trundle, illaoi, felt super satisfying to play because if you played well, you were basically unstoppable if the enemy couldn't kite you or lock you down
the game absolutely sucks when all you do is grind ranked, but if you treat it casually it can still have good moments

>>723072653 (OP)
>work 8-5 with occasional overtime (a few times a month)
>wake up at 7
>sleep at 11 (in bed by 1030)
>live 10m from work
>slow cook food on sundays
so I get home around 5~ usually they let us go early
from then I eat and shower and I can be in my gaming chair by 6
from that point I usually play until 8-9 and then watch some shows
on a weekend I go out to buy groceries and then just game all day / night
desu I get a lot more gaming done now than when I was in my 20s getting drunk and neeting it up
I also use my lunch break for reading, 18 books and 12 LN read this year so far, I avged 0-1 per year in my 20s

>>723074838
go to a temp agency, do a job or 2, make some friends get some references

>>723078214
Not him but honestly if you feel like it isn't for you, it really isn't. I sometimes get doubts, then see families with spoilt kids, retarded kids, ungrateful kids, and realize there's no way I'd be able to cope with that.

>>723072653 (OP)
I legit spent more days not working than working this year. It sucks ass, I used to get a lot of jobs as a Front end dev but now I don't even get interviews, The bar has been raised real high now and the last job I did didn't even pay me

After working 8 hours a day, is not 4/5 hours enough to play?

>>723080759
You got jeeted

>>723083045
worst of all is that I am south American so our salaries are already not that fucking high in comparison.

>>723072653 (OP)
Play them on the weekends

>>723072653 (OP)
Get home at 6. Eat till seven. Game till 11. Go to bed. Whats the problem

>>723077749
Shut up faggot

>>723083168
I like this, there's a rhyming component to this. I'm gonna copy this lifestyle

>>723072653 (OP)
You have plenty of time if you work full time 8-5 with weekends off like a normal person. God i miss my previous job i hate job hunting

>>723072653 (OP)
>8-16 m-f
i can play like for 2 hours in the evenings, and then whole weekends
>t. dont have gf, and will never decide to even try to get one

>>723072653 (OP)
You don't. But it's still fun to engage with the community (read: complain about games you haven't played online).

>>723078214
Go around and ask people irl why they decided to have kids. Most of the time it will be "it was an accident" and the other smaller part of the time it will be some variation of "because I was bored". That's literally all it comes down to. If you don't have the monkeybrain instinct to do it then there is no logical answer you will ever arrive at that will justify having kids, it's completely irrational and not pleasant and there is no intrinsic reward.

I just play on the clock while I "work" from home.
I know I shouldn't do this but I simply don't care anymore.

>>723084158
How about wanting to leave a legacy and fix the problems of the world that you know will take longer than your short life?
>no that gets in the way of my hedonism!
Useless meat, go play in traffic. Your life means nothing.

I have time to play, but I don’t. I just continue to shitpost here out of habit.

>>723072653 (OP)
forget trying to find to play games, how about being single, living alone, and doing all your own laundry and cooking? It's exhausting doing all the french cooking

>>723072653 (OP)
You don't. I still have PS2 and Gamecube games in the skrinkwrap.

I overload the washer and dryer with unsorted laundry and save on time & dish soap by eating off of paper plates. my biggest struggle is the exhaustion from working a physical labor job, 8 hours of sleep probably does help but it's never enough

>>723084650
>leave a """legacy"""
Massive meme for a million reasons if you bother thinking about it for more than 2 seconds.
>fix the problems of the world
Bringing a life into this world just to thrust them into a fucked situation and expecting them to fix it for you is unbelievably deranged. Stop living vicariously through other people, it doesn't work.

>>723072653 (OP)
Weekends, mostly. I work four 10's so I get 3 day weekends.
I get up at 4 for work and usually have to be in bed by 8 if I want a decent night sleep so I don't usually play much on work nights.

>>723072653 (OP)
Cutting down on doomscrollan helps.

>>723072653 (OP)
I don't have kids so I have plenty of time

>>723084650
I don't completely disagree, but the legacy argument is often used by people who have nothing to offer their kids.
There are certainly ways to build a lasting legacy through a family business, generational wealth, giving back to your community, etc., but the vast majority of people will be forgotten within 2 generations.
You also have to come to terms with your children (and their children's children) being independent people who may not share the same vision as you, so the more time goes on, the likelier it is for one of them to squander everything on hookers and blow

>>723085410
So die then. You serve no purpose.

>>723072653 (OP)
Employedbros, how do I get more energy and reduce my brainfog?

Took 3 years off from work to try and make a game. I failed. Now I have to find a job again. What am I in for bros? How's the job market?

>>723083478
>and will never decide to even try to get one
Why not? Don't you want love, anon?

>>723078214
It helps to not be a psychopath that values videogames over family

>>723086580
masturbate at weekends only.

>>723074098
Just make up some bullshit about being self employed for a bit.

>>723086767
it's not good. people are holding their breath waiting for the other shoe to drop

>>723072653 (OP)
You'll find time, if you got nothing else going on - it's the energy that's tricky. Lately I feel that I'm just going through the motions, but the truth is my work is exhausting - upgrading my skills and Im finding a better job, fuck this entry level bullshit.

>>723074838
If you live in the US, you can see if there's a Peopleready in your area. It's a day labor temp agency where you don't have to interview and shit. You just open their app after you've been hired and set up with an account, pick an available job, and show up. As long as you've got direct deposit set up you get paid at the end of the day. Big thing to keep in mind is that they're just a day labor temp agency though so it's basically all manual labor and you're not going to make a career or even have a steady job doing it. Still puts money in your pocket and gives you something to put on your resume if you've got some serious gaps.

I'm getting a promotion soon that will have me work only 36 hours, 3 days a week with increased pay. So I'll soon have 4 days off a week.

I get maybe 20-30 hours of gaming a week if I don't have plans or long running errands.
Meal prepping goes a long way and my commute is pretty short.

>>723074098
>I was searching for a job
wow that was hard...

>>723089836
They won't accept that.
Have something like you were caring for an elderly family member

>>723090663
nta but i have never been asked about employment gaps despite having them. is this a meme or does it actually happen ?

>>723090663
it's literally impossible to find an employee nowadays zoomers change jobs like socks and don't give a fuck. I seriously doubt a 1 year gap would matter to anyone.

Just be self employed and you can vidya whenever

>>723074098
They'll only bring it up if they're not going to hire you

>>723072653 (OP)
I don't have a family, so I just play so as long as the house is clean. Unless you're working like 70 hours a week or sleep 11 hours per night or have kids or are a normie and socialize, you have time to game, son.

>>723090776
When they ask about employment gaps they are mostly assessing how much you actually need employment in order to survive. If you have a large gap in your employment history, it implies you can live without employment, and it’s harder to make you a wage slave. They want somebody who needs wage bucks in order to survive, not someone who can safely quit their job at any time.

>>723084650
This is hypercope. The future is going to be a sick, anti-human nightmare and deep down you know it.

>>723086546
>You can only exist if you dream up a completely relative reason for existing
Y tho? And what made it so your ego hinges on this thing?

>>723091796
>train only world with a couple of cars for where it doesn't make sense to have railroads
>no more loud airplanes transporting dumb tourists from the other side of the world to your country
Sounds fun as fuck actually.

>>723072653 (OP)
>he doesn't wfh with a jiggler and play vidya all day

>>723072653 (OP)
Evenings and weekends. It helps that my mother in law lives with us too.

>>723091796
So does this account for the fact that subhumand will keep breeding like literal roaches and we'll soon not even have space on this earth for "humans"?

>>723092585
Of course not, the psychopath pedo Jews leading this are completely detached from reality

>>723086767
The worst its ever been in my lifetime. Society is going to collapse in the next 5-10 years guaranteed. People are just waiting around for the hammerblow to break the glass.

I've been planning to extend my college another 2 years to get a master's in some IT field so I can do remote work. How do you who are currently doing this able to get away with playing video games while working? What kind of video games are you playing? How long? How does your manager not see or know?

>>723093052
Google Caffeine

>>723091683
longest gap ive ever had was 3 years and no one has ever asked about it . weird. in the usa dont know if that counts