How do I ever find time for my hobby of games when I work so damn much now?[LVL 4+ Giveaway] [Ended]

I'm in this amazing situation where I can't game as much as I want to anymore because my wrists will start hurting after a while and I need them to not hurt too much for work, so that's fun.

8 hours for rest, 8 hours for work, 8 hours for others (supposedly)
but the world isn't kind enough

Well, you can do both. I work 50 hours / week and i have time for gaming.
but to do that I had to sell my family :D

I'm currently stuck at wanting more time to study bc I play too much stuff T-T

I work a lot. I could work less. But I enjoy my work. And my earnings are directly related to amount of work. Gaming suffers.

The poll should have a study option. I just started at university this autumn and boy oh boy does it make me busy. I barely have time to play anymore.

I slowly pared down my hobbies almost completely over the years. Work and family will do that. Though I do occasionally game a little with my son and on my Oculus Go. My son is filling up for me, as a Minecraft addict.

I try to get time to my hobbys...some days it's not possible at all. Thanks for GA!

I am never that tired to play a game in the computer after all it is for fun, what it bothers me is that i dont have a good pc to game on, haha crazy right ?

I work two jobs (sometimes three, depending on the time of year), and somehow always manage to find time for gaming.
It's everything else I have no time for. Eating, sleeping, goat rodeo, and belly button lint photography have all had to take a back seat lately.

Last job I had, allowed me to get up later in the morning giving me more time in the evening, but I had an hour to get to the job and an hour to get back home. Trow in eating, some social activity in between and even if I had an odd hour to game, I just couldnt get myself around to it..
I remember opening a game and closing it instantly after realizing I cant concentrate..

Had to move because enrolled in university again. So looking for a job in the city I moved to and while I dont have the job Im trying to enjoy gaming to the max because I just feel like I'll have no time or will to play then...

I game about 3 hours per week. Sometimes less or none. Occasionally more, for instance when I'm sick - which is not a good trade-off by the way.

I have a challenging job and I'm married and we have 5 small children. My life is full with good things. Less entertainment in my life because it is full of goodness is just fine with me.

I sympathize with those whose lives feel empty and yet they have little time to find enjoyment. That is a very challenging place to be. I suggest, though, that in those circumstances, cramming in more time for entertainment is not a great solution. Working to change the circumstances of your life that you are unhappy with is worth doing. And most of us are not as trapped by circumstance as we think we are.

One of the reasons that people still think gaming is "for kids" is that kids - even college age kids - have so much more free time than working people, family people, etc. And so with all that time, you can fill it with time-consuming entertainment. That's why I played mostly big sprawling RPGs when I was younger and single. And now I play more tactical and puzzle games - really, any games that I can play in hour-or-less sessions - and which I can leave for more than a week and come back to without feeling totally lost.

I'm lucky with my job. I can work from home, and it's easy (I do video closed captioning. As in I write the captions for videos). And I can work whenever I feel like it. 3am, 3pm, as long as the deadline is met. So it's easy for me to balance work and hobbies thankfully lol

And no, the pay isn't the greatest xD But I needed a job where I could work from home (I take care of my granny).

Who needs to sleep?

Energy, free time, money. Choose two, you can never have all three.

For me, I've got a pretty sweet deal. Around 20h per week on average for university, rest is for whatever else. There are busier weeks where it amps up to 70-80h per week during a crunch period, but I'll take that in exchange for a pretty relaxed time for the rest of it.
The next week will see me be in a school for 6 hours a day, so it's pretty chill. 30 hour week for the coming week and 35h for the next one, so more than enough time to game.

As for not being motivated to play, either you just don't play for a while to get the urge or you force yourself into something and most likely you get hooked and in the mood after playing for like 30 minutes.

Well, my girlfriend has been away so I've been having more gaming time this month, which really sounds bad when I say it like that.

What I mean obviously is that with a rather crazy work schedule, I usually keep my free time to spend with my loved ones and with my usual insomnia, I usually play/hobby when I should be sleeping.

I hope your circumstances improve and that you manage to sleep some. It really makes a difference. Or so I'm told.

welcome in real life ;) hopefully you will get +1 to time management skills, cheers!

Good luck with finding more time to game. Thank you for the giveaway

That's one of my main reasons as to why I don't wanna get a job (the other major reasons being a lack of self-esteem, general dislike of having to interact with people, the crushing pointlessness of doing anything and a teeny-tiny serving of major depression). The only thing I'd ever possibly need money for is video games (which I hardly buy anymore) or a new laptop (for gaming). But both become meaningless if I don't have the time or energy to play video games at all when I'm using up all my time and energy on work.
I tried working as an ""intern"" on an alleged 4 hour work day (thought that was more like 6-12 hours depending on what I needed to do... I'm really bad at half-assing stuff) in some wimpy no-name little programming company in my city for barely above-minimum-wage pay and it was hell. 3+ months of barely any time for video games. Felt like crap the entire time and for a long time afterwards.

Sorry, got kinda rant-y there. I'm afraid I don't have a satisfying answer to your question. :/

Don't overwork yourself! If you do, you'll feel like crap and still not have any time for gaming! :(

Work full time and game a lot in my spare time. Personally I don't think 40hrs/week is a good work/life balance. I'd go for 6 hours/day or 4 days/week as a good balance, but of course it'd have to come without a pay decrease. I recall reading that this is overall beneficial and doesn't reduce productivity, but I doubt it'll catch on,

It's never enough (for both). However, it strongly depends on working and gaming circumstances. Sometimes I don't want play at all, sometime I want play all day. Same for the work.
Hope you can tune your routine :-)

Don't get a wife and kids then it's really bye bye free time.

I work too much, stress even more, and do anything fun less than little.