You need to change your mindset.
You're weren't a professional gamer. You were a hobbyist. You played 4000 hours and earned €3,800. That's €0.95 per hour.
You'd be better off getting a job at McDonald's for 10€ per hour, working 2 hours a day, and playing for 14 hours. At that point you'd be averaging €1.25 per hour and maybe even get a meal out of it.
The definition of a professional is:
"Engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime."
You can't sustain yourself off of €0.95 per hour. You just can't. Even for a kid, that's a shit life since the 4,000 hours of fun you had came at the expense of a better future.
Do you like girls?
Because if you do, video games aren't going to get you them.
If you took 10% of the video game time, and worked out for an hour a day, that'd be 400 days of working out. How would you look now relative to how you look?
If you took another 10% and applied them to getting a job as a waiter in a restaurant, then how much money would you have to start a business?
If you took another 10% and offered to work for free for a guy that was successful in exchange for mentorship, then how much would you have learned?
If you took another 10% to go to meetups with entrepreneurs, then how solid would your network be and how much better your mindset?
... 10% to start your first ecommerce business, then how much would you have learned and how much would your earning potential have increased?
... 10%
... 10%
...10%
...10%
...10%
That's what you missed out on by playing video games.
You weren't a professional.
The sooner you realize that and stop being proud of your past mistakes, the sooner you'll get on the path to success.
You were a kid. You f*cked up. And you f*cked up bad. You need to realize that.
And for those of you in this thread thinking I'm giving him a hard time:
This kid basically dropped out of school to be a loser. Replace video games with "smoking weed and selling to friends", and you have a similar situation as his.
I wish you the best man, but you need to rewrite your post. Admit your mistakes and define how you're going to get to where you want to get.
Life's not constant hedonism. Sometimes it takes hard work and doing stuff that aren't that pleasant. You need to learn how to love the process.
Also - find mentors different than you parents. They obviously don't have a good influence on your life if they let you play for 4,000 hours. While at it, find better friends. Whatever friends you had that didn't bother telling you that you were a loser weren't real friends.
Tough love but you need it. Good luck man and feel free to write back an angry post - it's part of the process to get your mindset right.
You're weren't a professional gamer. You were a hobbyist. You played 4000 hours and earned €3,800. That's €0.95 per hour.
You'd be better off getting a job at McDonald's for 10€ per hour, working 2 hours a day, and playing for 14 hours. At that point you'd be averaging €1.25 per hour and maybe even get a meal out of it.
The definition of a professional is:
"Engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime."
You can't sustain yourself off of €0.95 per hour. You just can't. Even for a kid, that's a shit life since the 4,000 hours of fun you had came at the expense of a better future.
Do you like girls?
Because if you do, video games aren't going to get you them.
If you took 10% of the video game time, and worked out for an hour a day, that'd be 400 days of working out. How would you look now relative to how you look?
If you took another 10% and applied them to getting a job as a waiter in a restaurant, then how much money would you have to start a business?
If you took another 10% and offered to work for free for a guy that was successful in exchange for mentorship, then how much would you have learned?
If you took another 10% to go to meetups with entrepreneurs, then how solid would your network be and how much better your mindset?
... 10% to start your first ecommerce business, then how much would you have learned and how much would your earning potential have increased?
... 10%
... 10%
...10%
...10%
...10%
That's what you missed out on by playing video games.
You weren't a professional.
The sooner you realize that and stop being proud of your past mistakes, the sooner you'll get on the path to success.
You were a kid. You f*cked up. And you f*cked up bad. You need to realize that.
And for those of you in this thread thinking I'm giving him a hard time:
I kind of dropped out of school *im in it but i skip half of the days*
This kid basically dropped out of school to be a loser. Replace video games with "smoking weed and selling to friends", and you have a similar situation as his.
I wish you the best man, but you need to rewrite your post. Admit your mistakes and define how you're going to get to where you want to get.
Life's not constant hedonism. Sometimes it takes hard work and doing stuff that aren't that pleasant. You need to learn how to love the process.
Also - find mentors different than you parents. They obviously don't have a good influence on your life if they let you play for 4,000 hours. While at it, find better friends. Whatever friends you had that didn't bother telling you that you were a loser weren't real friends.
Tough love but you need it. Good luck man and feel free to write back an angry post - it's part of the process to get your mindset right.