A little too close to home

[jbeebe31]

Funny vid -



(forgive me if it's been posted, couldn't find it with a search)

 

[dcarver]

Pretty good, just change Halo3 for R-i-d-i-n-g and it's even better!

 

[Panman]

It's almost not funny, this is real for a lot of people out there. In real life I watched a kid loose his scholarship to BYU because of gaming. My own 25 year son games way to much. He is a manager for a big Corp. and a college grad and a dam nice young man but it scares me that that he doesn't get more involved in real life.

dcarver your right but MC's are real life!

 

[bikesniffer]

Had to rescue my son in Seattle 12 months ago and haul his rear end back to Switzerland, blew his studies (and my monthly check) at the UW and was stuck playing World of Warcraft and smoking you know what..he had lost all will to do anything meaningful and lost weight as well, irritated and completely out of focus...these games are a real PITA. He didn't even responded when I told him that being in the top ten players of this game will never pay any bills.

Took me about a year to turn him around, find him a job pumping gas for 3 grand a month and look for an apprenticeship spot here...he got one and I am thrilled he can start the apprenticeship in August of this year. It's a 3 year program and they already promised him a job when he is done. he's 24 this year and is lucky to have a second chance...

It was a rough road, believe me.

 

[chrisflock]

Had to rescue my son in Seattle 12 months ago and haul his rear end back to Switzerland, blew his studies (and my monthly check) at the UW and was stuck playing World of Warcraft and smoking you know what..he had lost all will to do anything meaningful and lost weight as well, irritated and completely out of focus...these games are a real PITA. He didn't even responded when I told him that being in the top ten players of this game will never pay any bills.
Took me about a year to turn him around, find him a job pumping gas for 3 grand a month and look for an apprenticeship spot here...he got one and I am thrilled he can start the apprenticeship in August of this year. It's a 3 year program and they already promised him a job when he is done. he's 24 this year and is lucky to have a second chance...

It was a rough road, believe me.

3 grand a month pumping gas? If I make half that working at a station, I wouldn't have gone to college. Hell, if I could make that at my current job, I would need a bigger garage to fit the motorcycles in it.

 

[FJRBluesman]

My wife thinks I'm that way on the forum.

 

[jbeebe31]

the gaming thing isn't a big deal for me.

But my wife did buy me a 360 for Christmas, I'm pretty spoiled though cause she's also the one

that told me to buy my feejer to replace my FZ1.

She's a keeper.

 

[bikesniffer]

Had to rescue my son in Seattle 12 months ago and haul his rear end back to Switzerland, blew his studies (and my monthly check) at the UW and was stuck playing World of Warcraft and smoking you know what..he had lost all will to do anything meaningful and lost weight as well, irritated and completely out of focus...these games are a real PITA. He didn't even responded when I told him that being in the top ten players of this game will never pay any bills.
Took me about a year to turn him around, find him a job pumping gas for 3 grand a month and look for an apprenticeship spot here...he got one and I am thrilled he can start the apprenticeship in August of this year. It's a 3 year program and they already promised him a job when he is done. he's 24 this year and is lucky to have a second chance...

It was a rough road, believe me.

3 grand a month pumping gas? If I make half that working at a station, I wouldn't have gone to college. Hell, if I could make that at my current job, I would need a bigger garage to fit the motorcycles in it.

Switzerland isn't exactly the cheapest spot to live in, considering cost of living the 3 g's don't look so hot anymore...by the time he's paying taxes, deduction of SS, mandatory health insurance, motorcycle insurance, gas, tires, public transportation, food, clothes, there's not that much left if he plans to save a bit for a rainy day fund...plus a soon as he starts his 3 year apprenticeship, he'll earn only about 400 bucks/month the first year (school only) 2nd and 3rd year is school and work combined.

 

[Checkswrecks]

My son was getting good grades but getting more and more into the XBox in 9th & 10th grade. Before his senior year and knowing he was going to college with the potential of being totally consumed, we made him give us an actual time when he would be off and no longer than an hour. For a long time we had to go get him and then he actually started doing it on his own. If the kid didn't come up on his own I'm sure that my regularly popping the circuit breaker on him helped. (And yes, I had a ball playing Halo with him some.)

Almost every time (yes it wsa a pain in the ass) he'd come up from the basement, we'd say "You're on your own self-discipline next year in college." Sumbitch if it didn't work!!! He still games some, but the kid just finished his first semester with great grades and thinks his room-mate is nuts in how lost that kid got into the gaming group. For you folks with kids in high school or even sooner, get 'em in the habit before they're off on their own!