for people who graduated from college and have a job

how do you guys make time to play games? i mean if you work 5 days a week, chances are you wanna go out and have fun on the weekends. that leaves no time for games. Im afraid that i might have to give up gaming after i get outta college. But im not ready to give up gaming. damit :cry:

so how do you guys do it?? especially you older folks with wife and kids and stuff

Same here.....33 years old, married with 3 kids. I play until my kids go to sleep.....at 10-11:00 PM or so.....I'm a Homo Gaminis Nocturna ! a new type of gamer.

wow nocturnal parent gamers lol... nice

how do you guys make time to play games? i mean if you work 5 days a week, chances are you wanna go out and have fun on the weekends. that leaves no time for games. Im afraid that i might have to give up gaming after i get outta college. But im not ready to give up gaming. damit :cry:

so how do you guys do it?? especially you older folks with wife and kids and stuff

lid1013

Even though I'm a full time college student I also work full time in a lab. My major is neuroscience which as you can imagine is one of the hardest majors you can take in college. I work in the lab seven days a week for at least 40 hours, usually more like 50 (depends on what needs to be done that week). Even with all of that I still find plenty of time to play games. It's certainly not as much as I used to game in high school but that's actually due more to my internet addiction than anything else.

So considering that I can be a full time student on top of working full time and still have time for games I'd say that it's fairly safe to assume that someone working a 9-5 job will have no problem finding time to game. If they have kids they'll probably have lot less time, but they'll still have time nonetheless.

Im married, but have no kids. Its the way to go IMO.

As far as gaming time, well I pretty much game the same way I did all through school. If you look at it, your school schedule was your preparation for entering the work force.

i work 3 12 hour shifts so i have 4 days off...and sometimes i throw in some socom in the am before i go to bed...i cant help myself. my name is kdiddy and i am a addict...also kudos to the nocturis whatever that was kinda funny

I think you might find that in life things come in stages. What I mean is that unless you get the job of your dreams right out of college you might find yourself working odd hours or even odd days. Like *gasp* the weekend! I'm married with three kids and although it's increasingly harder to find the time to game, I still do, and have for years. My point is that just like eating or sleeping if you enjoy it you will find the time to do it.

Like the previous posters I work 45-55 hours a week and have two kids anda wife. I game after they all go to bed, Usually from 10:00 to 1:00 every night. When I first got married I played very little ... better "things to do". Then when I had my first kid I couldn't play very much ... the whole new parent to scared and tired to pull attention away from kids thing. You get over that after awhile.