PREXUS'S PROFILE

Natook, not that I feel a need to defend my choices, but what leads you to believe that all I did was EverQuest? Yeah, my playtime was high, but there were lots of reasons to idle in that game. I was participating in high school and working a part-time job at the same time.

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A better way to look at it, is I paid $539.64 in Subscription fees (plus roughly $50 for the expansions since I was given one, stole the other from Business Depot, and bought only one) and recieved $1600 for a net gain of ~$1010.36 meaning I not only played the game for free but made some money having fun. Considering I was still working and going through school, it can be classified as an investment of time. Perfectly justified.

A 'Hobby' section on a resume is increasingly valuable. While there is nothing more valuable than Experience, and nothing more impressive than Training, Hobbies can be seen as the deciding factor. When a university engineering course graduates, local firms are often flooded with resumes (For example, University of Waterloo has several engineering firms located nearby like RIM and SandVine.) The majority of these resumes have the same information on them:

Training
Graduated @ Waterloo University with a Bachelor's of Engineering

Experience
Worked @ xy Place for 1 Co-Op Term
Worked @ yz Place for 1 Co-Op Term
Worked @ xz place for 1 Co-Op Term
etc.

Those individual places might vary, but the work is usually not what is important.

Now, when you get to a hobbies section, you can really learn a lot more about a potential employee.

For example

Hobbies
Playing Video Games, Snowboarding, Playing Football, Reading, Studying Egyptian History

vs

Hobbies
Designing Video Games, Biking/Exercise, Reading, Writing, Finding and Exploiting Security Loopholes (lol lulzsec), Carpentry and Home Renovation

the second example is taken directly from a friend's resume

When an employer sees the first, he sees that your interests aren't in the field. Sure, you play video games and have all the required training; but your interests are elsewhere and you likely won't find the job rewarding or feel the need to go above and beyond what you are expected to do.

When an employer sees the second, he can tell that you are likely a more mature person, are applying what you've learned in school on a regular basis, and have some knowledge/experience in other areas of the world.



Neither of these is going to make the difference between you getting the job and not getting the job if you're applying for white collar work like a gas station or a grocery store, but in highly competitive fields it makes the difference.

While tons of games have had various effects on my life, none can compare to the effect of

EverQuest.

My brother bought this game on release (actually 3 days prior to release but the servers weren't up yet) and from the very first day it had it's claws in me. My most played character (not my first, or my last, just the one with the most /played time) exceeded over 300 days of time played. I was only playing him for ~2 3/4 years. It was at this point that EverQuest accounts were in high demand and I felt it best to cut my time in Norrath short and sell my account. I got $1600 for the account, which considering I was like, 18 or something at the time (eq was released 1999, I was born 1986, I had been playing it for ~4 years at that point... carry the two... Between 17-18) and I bought an Electric Bass and joined and band and made real-life friends and went to tons of parties and essentially caught up on the years I had lost.

I revisit EQ every so often to see how it is and sometimes even run into people that I played with (who. never. stopped. playing.) and share a laugh or two.

I added a download link in the description as a temporary until the link gets approval.

No I posted previously about it. I was just messing around with making an FF6-like combat system so that I can later inject my own graphics and have something more unique. I was using FF6 as a basis that's all. It was also a practice script as I hadn't used RM in ~2 years.