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World of Warcraft might be the most hated game out there and for a good reason:
It's the most hateworty game, it consumes time, destoys lives, breaks families apart and men insane.
But to some, it can be a great source of joy and distraction from the very dull.
Here is my story, how WoW made 40 hours a week bearable for me:
I was seventeen years old and had just started an apprenticeship that should take three years to finish. The pay was decent, and I took the job mainly to have the money to move in with my girlfriend.
All seemed fine for a couple of weeks, but then things got increasingly dull at work.
When you picture the job of a travel agent, it seems pretty sweet at first.
You learn about the world, speak foreign languages to foreign people and maybe get to travel as well.
In my case it meant: sit around, write e-mails and do fill-in-the-blanks text, from 8 to five, all day, every day. After 6 weeks of employment, I had learned anything there was to the job and thus work became increasingly tedious. I usually finished all work for the day in an hour and since the tasks were as boring as no work at all, I decided to not ask for more too often.
You might think:
Well, there's always the internet, why not have a 7 hours a day internet-marathon?
Sure, that's a great idea for a day or two, but for three years? I think not.
Then I stumbled upon a solution:
World of Warcraft. I always liked Blizzard games, Diablo 2 and WC3 were pretty sweet and despite the bad things you hear about the game, if it were that addicting, it had to be good, hadn't it?
So I bought WoW, installed it on my work PC, and started playing.
Level 60 took me maybe half as long as normal, since I literally spent 6 hours a day playing at work.
Sweet distraction, thine name is Warcraft.
From that point onwards, my day would usually look like this:
Get up at seven, start work at eight, finish work at ten, play WoW until five, get home to my GF and do RL stuff. In the beginning, I thought of WoW a lot even after work, but as the excitement subsided, I managed to segregate WoW from free time and it became a work-only thing.
So, without WoW, my work would have been unbearable, I prolly wouldn't have finished the apprenticeship, I wouldn't have gotten the place at my school and thus I wouldn't have gotten the chance to go to university next year.
Thank you WoW, it has been a great three years!
Ps: I had 8 Level 60 Characters in Classic and 7 Level 70 Characters in BC
Only one made it to 80, for then my apprenticeship had ended and I stopped playing consequently.
 
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Haha. Though I wish you would have chosen a better mmo than WoW, I do understand your point. It gave you something fun to do during your days working, or when you should have been working.
Also, was the computer your own or did you share it woth someone. Wondering if they knew you played wow during work hours.
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Only the guy on the desk opposite of me knew, because he was also the system admistrator.
But since I knew how much time he wasted himself everyday, we both kept our mouth shut.
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And then your IT-guy in that society will find out you play at work, and your boss will fire you -_- happened before, will happen again...
Soooo hmmm.. you might have been lucky, but don't give that as an advice to others :s You might lose your job FASTER than you think, and seeing the state of employment these days....
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Perhaps the title should have been how WoW saved your career, but it was a fun read all the same. Also wondering how you got away with playing games all day?
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You took the worst part of WoW and turned it into a good thing: the extreme time consuming part.
If you were serious, you could have played poker and actually made money while making money.. yo dawg...
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I find sc to be far more "addicting" and time consuming than wow ever was for me, however it is a wow arena buddy that got me into playing sc2 ( that and wc3:p ) so i might have never even played the game without wow. Had a great time while it lasted and i hope the new Titan mmo they are making comes soon so i can play that ( but only casually, i don't think i would enjoy raiding or arenas anymore ).
Also /sadface for whoever was paying the manager who hired you to work 1/2 of the time you were payed for.
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On December 03 2011 23:43 Pads wrote:
Perhaps the title should have been how WoW saved your career, but it was a fun read all the same. Also wondering how you got away with playing games all day?
If I had to call that job my career, I would kill myself.
As I said, they gave me work that was supposed to last for a day, but it usually only took 1-3 hours.
Sure I had the occasional task that took away from my playing time, but hey, career first, right?
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Well that's interesting even if I think it might be wrong to use up ur worktime for that well I am only 16 what do I know.. and not from the same country. Thanks for sharing your story man, it gives some perspective!
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I had to do an internship in a dying team of a big video game company (basically the team was just finishing the projects already on the way, but not working on new projects or opportunities), and I experienced the same thing : nothing to do, all day.
It was awful. All the more awful since a firewall was blocking BNet ports.
But I discovered TL at that moment, and I also discovered SC2 VODs.
TL + YT + Wikipedia saved me from boredom.
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How did you not get caught oO. Sounds like an awesome job :D
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by university do you mean tech school? because im a littlle familiar with how the school systems work there and i thought you were placed on "tracks" and the track determined the career path you follow or has it changed?
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I thought i was unusual because i think working 8-16 is unbearable. It seems really common to do most of your work time some not work related stuff :D, i've heard that some office boss guys watch porn 4 hours per day at work.
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On December 04 2011 00:56 zickoray wrote:
by university do you mean tech school? because im a littlle familiar with how the school systems work there and i thought you were placed on "tracks" and the track determined the career path you follow or has it changed?
No, I mean university.
You can easily change "tracks".
Just get your "Abitur" and then you can visit any university in any subject you desire.
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On December 03 2011 23:52 kafkaesque wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 23:43 Pads wrote:
Perhaps the title should have been how WoW saved your career, but it was a fun read all the same. Also wondering how you got away with playing games all day? If I had to call that job my career, I would kill myself. As I said, they gave me work that was supposed to last for a day, but it usually only took 1-3 hours. Sure I had the occasional task that took away from my playing time, but hey, career first, right?
Did't you just call that job your life then? xDDDD
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Did they not care at work that you played lol?
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you should have played SC and became super gosu, moved to Korea, and won EVERYTHING
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Nice story, when i read the title i was like "How could this games can save a life ?!" but then i understood.
+1 for Xiron by the way, you really used the disadvantages of this game in a smart way.
Well played sir.
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Heh. I know what you mean. When I had to work 14 hour shifts at the tech support desk (and saw about 2 people a day for a grand total of 20 minutes) I played a ton of games.
Even now at my office job there's a lot of downtime because it's not our busy season. My boss expects everyone will not have enough work to fill the day, so she doesn't care if we are just playing games or watching movies on netflix. XDDD
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On December 04 2011 02:55 CeriseCherries wrote:
you should have played SC and became super gosu, moved to Korea, and won EVERYTHING
Playing only 6 hours a day won't get you anywhere in BW, sadly 
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By the way, I was just thinking of playing a little again, so I someone wants to give me a scroll of resurrection referal link (europe, obviously) I'd check it out.
I can't promise purchasing gametime, though.
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And here I am feeling bad for occasionally surfing TL/facebook during down time at work for a few minutes.
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