Did career work kill your enjoyment of games?

[Dominus]

I'm not talking about work at McDonalds or starbucks. I'm talking about career type professional work.

I used to play starcraft. Enjoyed it through college, various jobs at hardware stores, etc. But when I actually started working at a professional setting, every time I tried to play it again it was real boring to me.

My partner loved WoW. Enjoyed it through school and the various minimum wage jobs over the years. He even asked me to build him a gaming desktop for it. Then he finally got his first professional job in PR and Marketing a couple months ago. Yes, at first he still played. But I haven't seen him play for over a month now. I asked him why he hasn't played WoW. He said all of a sudden it became really boring to him.

Am I seeing a pattern here? My career killed off my enjoyment of starcraft. Now his career killed off his enjoyment of WoW.

This happened to anyone else?

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Is it ok if I inquire how serving food or coffee drinks isn't professional work or nah?

 

[rareboy]

At some point, work becomes a much more complex game than you can play on-line.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Yep, work always interferes with my personal life. Looking forward to retirement.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Anywho, work makes me infinitely more appreciative of leisure, is this how people view work, as a killjoy?

 

[Cormac135]

Nah, games just became shit.

Crash Bandicoot forever.

 

[tarallucci]

Videogames I just play two or three these days, regardless of work. I would like to have a chance to go skateboarding more but I'm exhausted at the of the day.

 

[TickTockMan]

Crash Bandicoot forever.

I almost bought that a few months ago, but didn't know what it was about. Looked fun though.

 

[Cormac135]

I almost bought that a few months ago, but didn't know what it was about. Looked fun though.

The platforms are good and pretty challenging, the first racing one is excellent.

 

[peeonme]

I liked board games, never could get into video games.

 

[PipeDream]

I still play video games, but have noticed that I pay a lot less attention to new releases and have a large library of games I bought but never seem to get around to playing.

Hobbies in general tend to take a hit due to things like careers and relationships. I play video games with my boyfriend sometimes, but generally when we're together we prefer to do other things and when we're not together I'm either working, or resting, or trying to fit in all of my other hobbies as well.

It's difficult to get immersed in a video game if I can only play it for 20-30 minutes at a time, and due to other obligations and priorities I simply don't dedicate the time required to enjoy them the way I used to. It's taking months to finish a 30 hour game currently and I'm pretty disconnected from the story and the characters due to the way I play it so briefly and infrequently.

 

[unloadonme]

I've never been remotely interested in video games. My career has made no difference to that.

 

[mikemizanin729]

Not really. I still work and exercise yet have spare time to play Fortnite for a few hours a day.

 

[Alistair]

I haven't turned on the xbox in a year. My roommate doesn't play very often any more either.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

No, it has not. Still Play video games regularly.

 

[bendted]

Is it ok if I inquire how serving food or coffee drinks isn't professional work or nah?

He has you on Ignore, but I hope he sees this and responds because I have the same question.

 

[Dominus]

^^ Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a professional waiter. Says no one ever.

We've all been there. Working minimum wage jobs and all.

I can understand a little political correctness to appease the low achievers. But to try to pass off waiters and busboys as professionals is going a little bit far.

The fact of the matter is I must have worked a dozen low wage types of jobs and I never thought starcraft was boring. Ever since i actually started working in actual professional settings that I lost all interest to play games.

Over the years, I watched my partner go from one low wage job to another. He's cleaned tables, washed and cleaned cars, packed products in a warehouse, etc. He always loved his games. But only a month or so into his first real professional job that gave him a company laptop, company phone, and company credit card, he stopped being interested in playing games.

So, yeah, take it how you will. I'm not going to bend over backward and tell my nephews and nieces they should arrive to wait tables for the rest of their lives.

 

[nycguydowntown]

maybe you just matured ----grew out of it----personally I like mind games

 

[unloadonme]

Is it ok if I inquire how serving food or coffee drinks isn't professional work or nah?

He has you on Ignore, but I hope he sees this and responds because I have the same question.

The use of professional has become much more widespread recently, so that binmen, taxi drivers or whatever are referred to as professionals. I prefer the older distinction of trade, profession or vocation. I would include within trade shopkeepers, waiters, plumbers and similar. Professions include law, teaching, medicine and so on. Vocation I believe means ministers of religion. I would agree with the OP therefore that serving coffee is not a profession, no matter how well it's done.

 

[bendted]

...nephews and nieces...

You may have to disown them if it things don't go your way because not everyone has the aptitude to be a doctor or lawyer or even a project manager for a construction company.