Dear Bella,
What the hell am I gonna do? I've just been fired from my job because I got sprung playing SL at work. I am really freaked out cos my wife is gonna kick my head in for this!
I've just been so goddamned hooked since I came here and she's been on at me for months to spend more time with her and less time plahying here, but I just haven't been able to give it up.
I'm really freakin but in some ways all I'm thinking is good, now I can spend more time here. I just don't know what to do. I don't care about anything cept being here and building and spending time with my friends.
What work is available here? Why do other people do?
Outta Work and I don't care!
Dear Outta Work,
Welcome to the ranks of the unemployed, divorced, pasty-faced and starving-to-death junkies on SL.
I've known many people lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on how you look at it), who have access to a computer during the day and can get a fix of SL during their working day. Every single one of them has a "near miss" story of how they almost got sprung having sex / buying a dress / being out on a date / building a house while they should have been working.
EXCEPT you did caught and are now paying the price!
The only advice I can give you is to get yourself a job in a factory, or driving a truck/car where you don't have access to a computer during the day - otherwise, you WILL starve to death because somebody has to put food on the table.
I know people who have lost half a stone (however many pounds that is), because all they can think of, 24 hours a day, is being online and in Second Life - to the extent that eating and going to the toilet is such an intrusion!
My solution has been to set myself a schedule - I can be online from when I wake in the morning until 9am (or 8am if I have to go to work), then it's offline again until 4pm (if I'm working at home) or 7pm if I'm working away. The other saving grace is that I have a dog, and I have to walk her so that takes me away from the keyboard for another precious two hours. If I didn't have those conditions, I would be here 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the biggest smile on my face.
Oh, and by the way, get that job BEFORE you tell the missus you're an unemployed bum addict!
Who else has had a near miss at work?
All the best, fellow-addict,
Bella
Friday, October 26, 2007
SL Has Ruined My Life!
Posted by Bella The Wise at 5:24 AM
Labels: Addict, Fired, second life, Unemployed
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6 comments:
You could always find a job that allows you to "play" SL while working. I consider myself lucky enough to have one of those jobs, myself.
What job is that Strange Ranger? I want to come and work with you!
At my workplace, the computers aren't powerful enough to handle SL. One can still go on SLExchange (I didn't, I saw it in the address bar when I clicked there, so somewhere else in my company is another SL player).
If only the computers here weren't powerful enough! I have had 2 near misses. At one I was able to say that I was on an in-the-office lunchbreak so my work didn't suffer from it. On the other occasion, a colleague got a quick glimps of my SL screen (nothing shocking fortunately) and I was able to bluff my way out of it by saying I was looking for a new wallpaper and distracted him with a work-related pdf that I could switch to in a second.
But that was a while ago and didn't involve my actual boss. Right now I don't have the viewer installed on my work computer anymore.
I am a television producer working on a piece on second life. Want to show both sides of SL. Would love to chat with you who have been negatively impacted by the game. Addiction? Lost job? Loss of money? Have lots of insight to the positives, but am open to hearing anything yu are willing to share. email: mglorieux@cbs46.com or direct: 404 327 3226
Thanks! Michelle
Ahh great - I'm just weighing up whether to get onto SL but I'm worried it will take over my life! Will maybe do a little more research before taking the plunge...
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