I've been a hardcore gamer for as long as I can remember, and
I'm surrounded by a gaming community. (Right now, it's World of
Warcraft.)
Recently, I've been wanting to do some more meaningful stuff,
but it's just so hard; it's like starting life afresh. All the people I'm close
to now are avid gamers.
The rest of my friends from my school days, I've
lost contact with, since I was in a different 'clique' from them. My current
'clique' have been with me since secondary school, and they are by no means bad
people, but I just want to try living life differently.
Whenever I ask
them if they wanna hang out somewhere (or do something else in town or whatever), they just outright reject me and
question why I rather not join them for their raid, during which, I just give in and decide
to hang out with them online.
I liken this dilemma to a mid-life career
switch. What can I do to make this change easier? What can I do to maybe make
some new friends? What can I do to fix up my life?
Whatever I do, it's
probably going to be nearly impossible to find a group of friends whom I can
feel as close to as the people I mentioned earlier. They're really great mates, but I simply want to enter a new phase of life, and I don't know how or where to
start.
Starting life afresh.
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I mean gaming not as in gambling
anyway from the way you post ....keep on gaming.... -
for now, or for just this two days, concentrate on the national day parade
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how old is the TS?
Go find a gf and everyday f*ck her than he won't think of gaming already
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I'm not a gambler, TYVM.
Man. If I were one of those depression cases thinking that no one bothered to listen to me, or that everything I said fell on deaf ears, I might've just killed myself.
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And also, I'm not addicted.
And I'd have thought it'd be fairly easy to deduce my age based on my screen name, but anyway, I'm 21.
I could've stopped gaming long ago. In fact, last year, I did try to stop. And I succeeded. But I soon discovered I had nothing much else to do, so I just started it up again. Simply put, I game when I get bored. And I get bored quite often indeed when I'm not gaming.
Perhaps it's due in part to the community I'm in. Perhaps it's just that not much else interests me. I don't know.
And one last point, shit trolls certainly are shit.
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Go find a job and gf and you will forget about gaming
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Meh I'm currently in NS. Not interested in being a 'garang' soldier. Technically, I'm not allowed to find an outside job either.
That leaves me with, 'find a GF'.
We all know what that's like, ay? I mean, y'know, coming from a social circle that's no larger than the size of a zergling's brain and all.
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You should find a job, cuz once you have a job, it will take your attention away from gaming, and plus you also earn yourself money for things you can buy with your own money, and also contribute to family.
You can still hang out with your friends in the weekends to catch up. But in weekdays, it would be more time spent on productive work, cuz in working in a job, you also learn more life experience, how to socialize with your colleagues and widen your circle of friends. :)
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Think of what to do after ORD! Learn a new skill!
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even in ns can still find those part time job without cpf contribution..best is can give tution not even considered as working..
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I did actually consider tuition, but it's not as easy as it seems.
When giving tuition, there's a certain standard you have to reach. What if there are some math/science problems you don't know the answer to? Something difficult in trigonometry, chemistry or algebra? No one was a perfect student back in secondary school.
Furthermore, what if you DO indeed know everything about math/science, but even after your coaching, your student still doesn't pass or attain that 'A' grade his or her parents wanted? What then? Wouldn't you have failed in your job?
Regarding other jobs, well, like they say, money begets money. In this respect, having more friends would give you the 'lobang' you need to land decent jobs. Landing jobs may get one socialising more, thus gaining more friends. Somewhat a vicious cycle, no?
That's why I've constantly reiterated that's the hard part is trying to actually execute the beginning of this 'career switch'. It's not as easy as just getting some random job like working at MacDonald's.
Well, it could. But that'd be against army regulations. And I'm not exactly built for hard manual labour either.
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Originally posted by Randomsmith88:
I did actually consider tuition, but it's not as easy as it seems.
When giving tuition, there's a certain standard you have to reach. What if there are some math/science problems you don't know the answer to? Something difficult in trigonometry, chemistry or algebra? No one was a perfect student back in secondary school.
Furthermore, what if you DO indeed know everything about math/science, but even after your coaching, your student still doesn't pass or attain that 'A' grade his or her parents wanted? What then? Wouldn't you have failed in your job?
Regarding other jobs, well, like they say, money begets money. In this respect, having more friends would give you the 'lobang' you need to land decent jobs. Landing jobs may get one socialising more, thus gaining more friends. Somewhat a vicious cycle, no?
That's why I've constantly reiterated that's the hard part is trying to actually execute the beginning of this 'career switch'. It's not as easy as just getting some random job like working at MacDonald's.
Well, it could. But that'd be against army regulations. And I'm not exactly built for hard manual labour either.
Being a tutor doesn't mean you need know everything and get everything correct all the time. I myself been teaching tuition for over 2 yrs and there are times i am unsure or even provide the wrong answers at times but as long as its not too frequent and you do try your best, it shouldn't be too big an issue.
Regarding student's results, tuition teachers are not always able to create miracles. The student also has to work hard etc so its good to maybe communicate with the parents so they know how their child is faring and some do understand that not doing well is their own child's fault for not practicing etc. Don't always put the blame on yourself.
Trying everything for the 1st time is always hard but if you let that stop you, you will never try. The first time is always the hardest but not impossible. You just need to push yourself to do it.
If you worry about army, i know of many NSF who gives tuition especially stayout personnels and none of them have been caught yet so don't worry about that.