Hire a Game Coach Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 27, 2006 @03:28AM from the get-some-skillz-noob dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Expert videogame players, many of them teens, are forging professional careers as coaches, finding clients — many of them in their 20s or 30s — online, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some gigs pay $65 an hour. From the article: 'Gaming-lessons.com says its youngest "Halo 2" instructor is 8-year-old New Yorker Victor De Leon III — better known by his online gamer name, Lil Poison — who has given several lessons a month since late last year, fitting the classes in after he has done his homework. His father, also named Victor, says his son has used some of the money he earns from lessons (hourly rate: $25) to buy a hamster, named Cortana after a character in the game.'"

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I've heard of life coaches.... by krell · 2006-07-27 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

I've heard of life coaches. But get-a-life coaches; that's something new!

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Where were you when the voynix came?
Re:waste of money by suggsjc · 2006-07-27 03:32 · Score: 5, Funny

I bet his hamster could beat you though...

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When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
Training Fee Schedule by ackthpt · 2006-07-27 03:35 · Score: 5, Funny
- £50/Hr: Rule MMORPGs with an Iron Fist.
- £30/Hr: Winning strategies for Halo 2 and most other Console games.
- £5/Hr: Finally beat Pac Man, Asteroids or Galaxians.
- £1/Hr: Oaths, Obscenitites, Epithets and throwing things and the screen.
- Staring dumbly as you die in an utterly futile gesture is always Free.
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar