I always forget SRK loves flipping burgers for money. In my field playing video games isn’t weird and it has nothing to do with computers.
I tried to legitimize it by just throwing it under the eSports umbrella in the meet and greet after I started my job, which was met with a lot of silence and awkward glances.
I get a lot shit off the older guys at work for playing “computer games” (just me that thinks that term sounds old?) to which I reply that I only play 1 game and, compared to the collections of games and the money that they’ve spent on mobile games like candy crush and facebook bullshit like Farmville that they, on paper, are more “gamers” than me.
Fact is, it’s not a small thing anymore and owning a console isn’t the price of entry. However, even though the whole world has adapted into making everyone gamers, people haven’t psychologically removed the barrier between what they do on their ipad on the toilet and what we do at the local arcade, LAN arena, cybercafe (ok, nobody says that one anymore) or living room. Save it til you’re through the door.
Remember it’s not about what YOU think in an interview; you may not care about how a person looks, or dresses, but you’ll sure as shit shine your shoes, comb your hair and put a suit on before you turn up. think of omitting your love of gaming in the same way that you cover up that tattoo and leave behind the Cannibal Corpse hoody. Sad, but some stuff has to be left out, even in 2014.
Lol, your field?
Click baiting bullshit that is copy and pasted from teen magazines is a field of study these days?
Not gonna lie, I’ve put down “professional gamer” and labeled the company “empire arcadia”
For awhile I’ve suffered declines but nike picked me up and ended up working my way up to a Nike cordinator…
:bluu:
I could see gaming being a good source of bonding between you and whoever you’re interviewing if they’re of the right age, but if you put it down and you wind up being interviewed by a 60 year old, well, that would be embarrassing.
Maybe it depends on where you are going to work at. Video game industry, sure. Other than that, I wouldn’t put it down.
Clearly his field is to not read things that are critical to comprehension of a subject.
Duh.
Unfortunately most of us do this now and over time it does wear on you. Sounds mostly like a disclaimer.
Get some of those gaming glasses to reduce eye strain. Planning on picking some up soon.