Best games to play when unemployed?

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ThomBassmonkey said:
Re: The music thing, you could spend every waking second playing guitar and not get anywhere or you could learn how to play 3 notes and use a delay pedal and end up playing for U2. Playing in a band is brilliant fun though and worth doing if you have the time, it's great for working on your social skills if you struggle with aspergers as people will actively come and talk to you at gigs rather than you having to think up conversation.

It's also a strong thing to put on a CV as you're working in a team, creatively and often to a tight schedule (recording, gigs) as well as having to be reliable).
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you mean Edge..ha....yeh I play lots of guitar but I become depressed so not play so much these dyas

deicide said:
I like the sound of that!

OP, I would advise you to spend your free time(especially when unemployed) more efficiently than playing games the entire day. I'm not saying gaming is ''useless'' or ''bad'', my take is, being unemployed gives you an insane amount of free time, you wouldn't have while working as a Cog in the machine 9 - 5.

Use that time to acquire knowledge, read. Without neglecting job searching;)

Here's a start http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chomsky-Ana...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315963134&sr=1-1

Perhaps you're interested in something more practical, numerous books on self employment, investing etc, are out there.

Now you may have thought ''but wait I'm unemployed, therefore I don't have the required resources to invest or become self employed'', it's all ''future proof'' knowledge, for when you're employed.

Of course this is my subjective preaching, your life is your own.

EDIT - As for a game suggestion.. real time and turn based strategy games, will steal your time.




psml!
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yeh good advice cheers

wilko49 said:
RPGs are the best for eating time IMO, especially Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3.

If you can do 4-5 hours a day of guitar, you should get good very quickly. Sorting out a band is brilliant fun, but, as ThomBassmonkey says, there is no guarantee you'll ever be able to get money out of it (although if that is what you'd really like to do, being a session musician might be an easier way into the business).
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I could but i seem to be getting bored/depressed fast. I find it easier to play guitar than learn.

I can play to backing tracks and make up stuff for 1-2hours before I get bored. But when I do the practice routines I got and learn new scales techniques, theory etc I get bored in like 10mins :(
 
Taziir said:
Minecraft can be a huge timesink and is fun in MP. Lots of Free to play MMO's now as well.

As you have a degree why not join one of the programs to teach EFL / ESL abroad? When I left uni I got a bad Everquest habit (10 years ago... shudder) and to go cold turkey joined one of the month long training courses to teach english in China. Had to pay £100 but at the end they organised a job for me and the school I ended up working at paid for the return airfare. Wages were enough to be very comfortable and accomodation was paid by the school too.
Oh yes, for what it's worth, Chinese girls at universities really really dig British guys. Just sayin...
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Where shanghai? Harbin? Beiging?

I dunno if Id wanna go to china alone or safe to live there but could be fun

Im not a big fan off asian girls but I heard fit chineese girls are real stunning
 
I don't understand why anyone would post a thread like this, its like "Dear Internet, I am unemployed". Atleast aknowledge that you're looking for a job mate, I hope tax-payers money isn't going into your pocket so you can just 'game' all day.
 
/serious adult mode

Right, your main problem in getting a job is that any employer is going to take one look at your CV, your college history, and decide that you never stick at anything. You need to make a decision on what you want to study, and really stick to it and do it properly. You were all over the place in college, I wouldn't even interview you based on the amount of giving-up stuff you did - physics - zoology - PE - now accounting. By all means stick with the guitar, but use it to show that you can put your mind to something and become really good at it. Don't expect a job out of it.

For a start, limit the games to 2 hours in the evening, strictly. You're just using them as a crutch so that you don't have to think about your situation. Then pick something, based on what you've said I'd say something sports related, and STICK WITH IT! Get to the level where you can either train people or do sports injury stuff. Take up a martial art while you've got loads of free time - incredibly useful, looks great on a CV, and is really good for your self esteem.

Finally, try not to use the aspergers as a crutch, an excuse for not doing something. The more you do, the bigger a problem it will become.
 
Your choice of games is all wrong. Play something with a competitive scene like Starcraft 2 or one of the DOTA games. Least that way if you're good and lucky enough all that practice could end up winning you tournaments and getting some fame, cash and women. You're currently squandering your chance of a career as a progamer.
 
People like you that give us 'social' geeks a bad name :(

I have a job, social life and still manage to game to my hearts content... But the hours you are putting in, with no proper income (benefits is pocket money compared to stacking shelves at tescos for example), living off your rents no doubt.

You need to seriously rethink your life lol, waste of space.

ags

P.s. Yes, I have just moved back into my mums if someone brings this up, but that is to finalise my deposit to a house for the next 6 months.
 
mglover070588 said:
Living at home doesn't make you a loser if you chose to live there, like you have.
Living at home because you have no hope of living anywhere else makes you a loser.
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If thats all it takes to make you feel special...

Living at home because you've got no job doesn't make you a loser unless you have absolutely no intention of getting a job to move out.
 
How about you take any job you can in the meantime while you figure out a career path. It will help you keep motivated and put some money in your pocket. Seems a bit of a waste to be plugging hours in to a game when you could be earning some monies.
 
Please for the love of god, don't use Aspergers Syndrome as an excuse for being unemployed. I'm a sufferer of Aspergers myself and I am pretty sure that after University I should have a job lined up somewhere.
 
Thought i was in GD for a second...anyway a game to name.

play them all, not like you have work in the morning.
 
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