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Originally Posted by thecowboy
To be fair, he was already doing crappy in school, and it's not like his parents totally let him off the school hook. They got him a private tutor and he can probably take his GED and do fine once he figures out professional gaming is stupid. Would I let my kids take this path? Probably not, but I'm not there. I would guess the parents had probably lost hope that he would take the "normal" path in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Waldo
i bet he is white
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One gamer, quoted at the end of the linked article, says that in eight years his total earnings are about $25,000 total, and that's including a national championship in Halo 2.
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In two more years they'd show him the door at school anyway but he's lucky he has parents that can pay for a private tutor. He must be white, if he was inner-city black he'd probably be selling drugs and want to stay in school to keep up contact with his customers.
If the gamer noted is about average with an income of about $3,000 a year that's definitely not much of a future. Nut cases that get out of school and can't hold a job get better money collecting SSI. It was $400 a month years ago so it might be closer to $500 a month now.
I doubt if it's a career he'll be able to make money at for the next 50 to 60 years. He needs to make at least $5 to $10 million to eek out a middle class living to live on for that amount of time. With a GED at best he'll be able to get into community
college and then he'll most likely need to take remedial reading and math classes before he can take some of the courses he'll need for
college credits. Looks like a hard life to come unless there is a lot more money in computer gaming than I perceive. Maybe they'll come up with a burger flipping game for the Wii that he can use to learn a career backup.