How does your job help or hinder your retro gaming?

[Luke]

I'm an independent marketing consultant, so if I have a client, I usually put in 18 hour days. If I don't have a client, I take a few weeks off and mellow out, play some games, and purchase more games.

[Anayo]

I work at a truck stop folding towels, cleaning showers, sweeping floors and stuff. There's nothing particularly game related that goes on over there, although when I clean showers people sometimes leave tips inside, the likes of which I saved in order to accumulate enough over the summer for me to buy a nearby Playstation 2 slim and a copy of Metal Slug Anthology.

[fast]

Since I am one of the very few of my coworkers with the ability to type without looking down, what takes them all day takes me about an hour. In the past I would take on more work but then I found out that despite doing the lions share already, I was getting paid less than my coworkers (sadly this is a race thing). So I decided three years ago if I can do less work and get paid the same, might aswell work on the site/monitor the forums. So I research games or things of interest, most of the day. I use to watch tv shows but my boss told me to stop - our department was using more bandwith than our marketing department.

Thanks to recent developments at home I have less free time do to moving back in with my parents and having a 1 year old niece in the house atleast half of the evenings of the week. So gaming is regulated to what I can do while keeping up with her. Civ2 and I are fast friends yet again.

[enderfall]

Well, I'm a sales director for a contract pharmaceutical manufacturing company. I have a LOT of responsibility, considering my territory just expanded from SF Bay Area to the entire West Coast. Needless to say, I've had about 8 hours of free time to play video games over the last month, and 5-6 of those were spent playing Sacred 2 with my wife who claims she never see's me any more (a bit of an exaggeration, but there is some truth to it when you consider her work schedule as well). This would represent a significant drop in how much time I had before. If I was to estimate, it would normally be about 15-20 hours per week, so yeah, I don't have much time anymore to play games.

On the flip side I wish I was making more money than before in order to collect video games, but when given my "promotion" my boss basically said: "we're giving you this promotion and your compensation is added job security". It was a take it or leave it proposition too. Ugh, this economy f'n sucks, but I am glad to at least have a job!

[tcpballa93]

I am washing dishes at a French restaurant. It is just a block or two from hocus pocus, so I always check it out after work, and snag up the good stuff.

[Xonticus]

I work weekends at our Play N Trade as a Manager, and durring the summer I've picked up more hours. Plus I go to school full time am an artist trying to make it. That and I occasionally DJ for parties and carnivals and such. In the meantime, I am a big pc gamer and collect all sorts of games, my fav being anything Sega. Sometimes we get some cool stuff for cheap at my store, so I cant complain, but game time is usually limited to a couple hours before bed until around 1 am, or whenever I don't have any deadlines looming close by.

[Jayson]

Right now its my Wife's work that hinders my game playing and computer time. She started 3rd shift 3.5 months ago and when I get home from work she is sleeping so I make dinner and take care of the kids (and keep them quiet) until their bedtime. Not much time left after that for gaming since I have to wake up early for work.

Plus its the busiest time of year at my job so that helps too!

[Haoie]

Job
Money
Games

Tada!

[Zeonik Freak]

I currently work for a company that does Customer Service for AT&T. So in other words, for 8 hours a day, im talking to idiots who dont deserve cell phones (but here and there i get some cool people, but its not too bad). At work there really isnt time for games since im limited to my schedule breaks and lunch times and the rest of that is on the phone. But if there happends to be a slow point, that gives me a few minutes here and there. But right now, ive been reading books at work, and im into trying to finish Koushun Takami Battle Royale.

My time spent on games is a couple hours a day, either in the morning or before i go to bed. Plus i got school on the side, so ill try and put time in for games when i feel like it. I usually do all my gaming on the weekends unless i have something to do. So for right now i mix in gaming, watching tv shows (Currently Space Ghost C2C all ep that i BT), and school work, and internet time.

My current games are Gundam 00 Gundam Meisters for PS2 and Freelancer for PC...

[SpaceBooger]

As a teacher (Middle School Science) I get no time to play games... I usually lecture all day. I used to have a planning period, but I took on playground duty for a little extra cash... I do make video game references often and am dying to play an emu on the smartboard when the kids aren't there...

I do have some retro games on my teacher website like Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Tetris. The games bring the students to the page (since its almost the only site with games that the filter doesn't block) and while playing they may notice that they have homework... its a win win situation - http://www.mrjworld.com