Is playing games a very bad time wasting hobby to do? of course which parent would tell their kids to earn video game money, every parent tell their kids to go to school and earn the greenback, not some funny video game money, do you see anything has changed to the parent? I see politician has begin to make shifting to virtual currencies, look like parent are just like the usual cattle who would rather wait and see, waiting for the politician to rescue them and their family and their kids, they have a lot of hope put into the political reformation to save the day!
My post wasn't about whether playing video games is bad or not, but about avoiding things that turn off your thinking and disconnect you from the world. In this sense video games are the same as drugs and alcohol. Playing video games for money is fine as long as you can treat it like work, especially if you can do it in the evening and have a whole day to do other things. Compare 2 random situations:
John wakes up at 10 am, starts his stream, plays for 14 hours straight with only bathroom and food breaks, then it's bed until 10 the next day.
Tom wakes up at 7, goes to school, comes back in the afternoon, eats dinner, goes to the gym or rides a bicycle, at 7 he starts his stream and plays until midnight.
Tom earns 30% of what John does, but his life is better, more full and more productive. If you play because you want to be far from society and/or your thoughts, you're lost.
idk how well you did, but it seem you are going to follow the typical wage-slaving, earn stable paycheck income from a stable job, feeding family seem to be the first priority, then by all means, you are doing well under this extreme market condition.
Actually I'm more of a guy that doesn't like to work 9-5 every day, so I quit my normal job over 10 years ago and chose to work part-time. I did the math, compared my options and came up with a plan that my family had an old abandoned house in the woods and we were living in a city apartment, so we came to an agreement that I'd get the house for free if I can fix it and take care of the property. We moved there and rented out our apartment to have some additional income. My wife didn't want to quit her job, so she was driving there every day and I was working on the house basically doing everything by myself from plumbing to painting. We only had a few things done by contractors like roofing and insulation, so I'm not the wage slave you think I am.