Typical Playing Day?

[IridescentKerry]

I started my first 'proper' job this Monday. I'm 22, graduated from Uni in July. Up until yesterday I'd play the Sims for at least 5 hours a day (and I mean at least!), seeing as I'm now working 8am-5.30pm I can't imagine I'll be able to play in the week anymore. Which I'm very traumatised about.
I'm just curious how other simmers manage to play the sims whilst having a job? What's your typical day like? 

[knitro]

I work 7-5:30 M-R and play a littel bit each night maybe an hour on average...Fridays I am gone and the weekends I am usually busy so don't get much in, but once in while, I'll get to play for 5 or 6 hours on a sunday or something. I just don't get through the generations as quickly anymore. Oh and FYI I only watch tv on tuesday nights for an hour usually, once in a while I'll watch something else. And I have to start working out soon, the sims is not going to get much time anymore...oh well thats life, at least until I get to the weight I want to be at, got 15 more lbs to go.

[IridescentKerry]

I can relate to the losing weight, I decided I needed to lose some weight a couple of years ago, lost about 40lbs and felt a lot more comfortable within myself, then in my final year I put on about 15lbs. Which I'm still struggling to lose (admittedly, it's hard to lose weight whilst still eating KFC's and chocolate!). Hoping that now I'm working I'll be better! We'll see.

[Sagana]

Congratulations on your graduation and new position

I work from 7:30-between4:00&6:00 depending on what's up. Generally I get to play an hour or 2 (or a bit more) a night (depending on how late I'm willing to stay up, and what other obligations I have) and several on weekends. I can come here and read a bit or post a bit during lunch for a kind of fix.

I don't watch tv much, but I do occasionally do a few other things, usually when I'm a bit less addicted than I am right now (it comes and goes). I don't get as much done in the game as I'd like to, but then I wouldn't if I played 24/7 either

[Lynda]

I work weekdays from around 10am - 7pm.  I usually get up around 6:30 and have all my morning stuff taken care of and the sims loading by 7:30.  I don't need to leave for work until 9:20, so I get to play about an hour and a half taking a break around 8:30 to blow dry my hair and actually get ready for work.

As mentioned in another thread, my husband seems to feel he will implode if I'm on the computer and he's awake and at home (he is REALLY not good at entertaining himself).  Therefore, when he's home I rarely get a chance to play.  I used to loathe the fact that he sleeps in on the weekends, but now I just play while he's sleeping and all is well!  I get maybe an hour and a half in each weekend morning as well.  If I'm lucky, he'll go out with his friends or take a nap so I can play some more.

[Renatus]

Welcome to the wonderful world of adulthood. 

I pretty much can only play for three or four hours once or twice a week. I attend an immersive language class from 9 am-3 pm on weekdays, and spend the hours afterwards doing assorted chores, writing, homework for the class, teasing the cat, cooking, and spending what time I can with my husband when our schedules allow (about two hours a day before bed. Wah!). I'd love to play more games but I'm not even getting enough sleep as it is and I have to spend time on exercising or my joints do really nasty things to me, and I'm not even 30 yet.

[Witches]

I'm married, work 32 - 40 hours a week and have a child who is 8 years old, so most of my playing is at night. My husband is a baker, gets up before the dawn and is in bed before dark. The kid's bedtime is sometime around 9, which leaves me until 1 in the morning to play my little heart out.

At which point I have to go to bed if I'm to function at all at work the next day.

Sometimes I get lucky and can play during the day too. If everyone else is busy doing something that makes them happy I sneak off to the computer ... I've got competition from my kid, though, because she's a simsaholic herself, plus she likes to get on the Internet and play at Kim Possible.com.

[Muisie]

Good luck, IridescentKerry!  Never bet on more than 1 hour a day.  If it's longer, enjoy!  If it's shorter, join the club. There's always the weekend.  And vacation days, holidays . . . and sick days.  Hey, at least you're making money so you can afford upgrades and expansion packs.

[KellyQ]

Congratulations on your graduation and new position

I work from 7:30-between4:00&6:00 depending on what's up. Generally I get to play an hour or 2 (or a bit more) a night (depending on how late I'm willing to stay up, and what other obligations I have) and several on weekends. I can come here and read a bit or post a bit during lunch for a kind of fix.

I don't watch tv much, but I do occasionally do a few other things, usually when I'm a bit less addicted than I am right now (it comes and goes). I don't get as much done in the game as I'd like to, but then I wouldn't if I played 24/7 either

sagana and I are apparently living parallel lives  .  I work 8-5, 40 hours a week and all the various duties that being a mother of 2 includes. I get to play around an hour or two at night after everyone is taken care of for the day and depending upon how tired I am (or how annoyed my husband appears to be at seeing me on the computer "again" ). Sometimes I get 4-5 hours on the weekends, usually staying up til the wee hours to get my play time. And I have to admit that it's really hard to pull the plug during the weeknights when I'm in the midst of a storyline.....like staying up til 1 a.m. last night because it seemed imperative to get Meadow Thayer to break off her engagement with Joe Carr so that she could be with George McCarthy, after all, she IS pregnant with his baby!

[DuzzyGirl]

. . . my husband seems to feel he will implode if I'm on the computer and he's awake and at home (he is REALLY not good at entertaining himself).  . . .

He sounds like my husband! 

I work from 8-4:30 p.m., which puts me home about 5 p.m.  I try to get at least 1/2 hour workout in before I start on supper.  By the time supper is cooked, eaten, and cleaned up after, it's usually after 7 p.m.  I sit with the hubby for about an hour (give or take), then off to sims I go 'til at least 11 p.m. 

[Bangelnuts]

Congratulations on your graduation and new position

Ithe  work from 7:30-between4:00&6:00 depending on what's up. Generally I get to play an hour or 2 (or a bit more) a night (depending on how late I'm willing to stay up, and what other obligations I have) and several on weekends. I can come here and read a bit or post a bit during lunch for a kind of fix.

I don't watch tv much, but I do occasionally do a few other things, usually when I'm a bit less addicted than I am right now (it comes and goes). I don't get as much done in game as I'd like to, but then I wouldn't if I played 24/7 either

sagana and I are apparently living parallel lives  .  I work 8-5, 40 hours a week and all the various duties that being a mother of 2 includes. I get to play around an hour or two at night after everyone is taken care of for the day and depending upon how tired I am (or how annoyed my husband appears to be at seeing me on the computer "again" ). Sometimes I get 4-5 hours on the weekends, usually staying up til the wee hours to get my play time. And I have to admit that it's really hard to pull the plug during the weeknights when I'm in the midst of a storyline.....like staying up til 1 a.m. last night because it seemed imperative to get Meadow Thayer to break off her engagement with Joe Carr so that she could be with George McCarthy, after all, she IS pregnant with his baby!

I guess Im lucky. I work at home for a computer salvage company on the west coast ,I live in Arkansas. so I can set my own work hours which allows me to play the sims as little or as long as I like. and since most of my work id\s done over the phone. I have two lines one for the desk top and one for the phone

[knitro]

My live-in boyfriend likes to play video games so it works well for both of us, he plays halo or whatever on the xbox and i play the sims with my bird, everyone is happy.

[FutureCat]

I work full time and study part time, so my sims playing is pretty much restricted to weekends too.  Sometimes an hour or so in the evenings if I don't have any homework to catch up on.

I'm lucky - no kids, and two computers in the same room, so I can play the sims on one while my partner plays quake or halflife or something on the other, and we can actually have conversations with each other at the same time (although sometimes they do get a bit weird: "Yayy, they finally fell in love!" - "Die, scum!" )

[IridescentKerry]

Really enjoyed reading all your replies. Now I know I'm not the only one who grabs a hour of sim playing between working!

[cwieberdink]

. . . my husband seems to feel he will implode if I'm on the computer and he's awake and at home (he is REALLY not good at entertaining himself).  . . .

He sounds like my husband! 

I work from 8-4:30 p.m., which puts me home about 5 p.m.  I try to get at least 1/2 hour workout in before I start on supper.  By the time supper is cooked, eaten, and cleaned up after, it's usually after 7 p.m.  I sit with the hubby for about an hour (give or take), then off to sims I go 'til at least 11 p.m. 

I am in the same boat on the same river with y'all. JM has disparaged me over how "needy" my hubby seems to be.  My hubby HATES when I am on the computer.  He wants me to watch tv with him.  Yeah, that's togetherness, baby!     I need to get him addicted to a game so he'll leave me alone to sim in peace.  But he thinks they are a "waste of time"

C

[ZiggyDoodle]

Congrats on the graduation and new job.  Have to be at my office from 8:30 a.m. until about 5:30 p.m., then home to do chores, cook dinner, etc., etc.  I will admit that I've put off doing quite a few projects since I got the game.  After all, it is much more fun to play TS2 than strip wallpaper, paint, and clean! 

As I grow older I get my priorities in better order, so I do manage to get in two to three hours of play in the evening. 

Enjoy your job and your expanding world!

[cheriem]

I'm a substitiute teacher for the local school district.  I go when called.  Some weeks I work more than others.  My husband is pretty understanding, since he comes home and takes a nap while I play on.  (He's a car mechanic and works hard.  So he needs his sleep after work for about an hour and then he's fine.)  When I'm working, I work until 4:00 at the latest.  Then I can come home and Sim!  No children and the housework fits around the game.  Weekends he's at work Saturday and we go to Church and visit family on Sunday.  So Saturday I play the most.

[JavaChild]

I will admit that I've put off doing quite a few projects since I got the game.  After all, it is much more fun to play TS2 than strip wallpaper, paint, and clean! 

Just about anything is more fun than stripping wallpaper! While I'm destined to forever be more of a lurker here, I haven't even been able to do that he past month as we're in the midst of extensive renovations to a new house purchase. And yup - People that paint over wallpaper should be shot, I reckon. Ick! Nasty job to remove. Thankfully, we've now passed that phase and are finally far enough to start texturing the walls. Since we wouldn't want to have two different textures - Oh no we wouldn't - my boyfriend is doing all of that chore, leaving me oodles of time to sim at the moment. How freaking cool is he?!

[Bangelnuts]

I will admit that I've put off doing quite a few projects since I got the game.  After all, it is much more fun to play TS2 than strip wallpaper, paint, and clean! 

Just about anything is more fun than stripping wallpaper! While I'm destined to forever be more of a lurker here, I haven't even been able to do that he past month as we're in the midst of extensive renovations to a new house purchase. And yup - People that paint over wallpaper should be shot, I reckon. Ick! Nasty job to remove. Thankfully, we've now passed that phase and are finally far enough to start texturing the walls. Since we wouldn't want to have two different textures - Oh no we wouldn't - my boyfriend is doing all of that chore, leaving me oodles of time to sim at the moment. How freaking cool is he?!

your'e lucky thats for sure My hubby would stick me with the job of stripping wall paper

[MissDoh]

I work from 9 to 5, no children (but I have 3 cats lol).  Since my boyfriend loves to play games too it is not a problem (we each have our own computer), normally around 9pm I start to play until I go to bed around 12pm (that is weekdays).  On weekend I play less since we take this time to do a lot of things around the house and we will buy a new house next year (which will be built exactly the way we like) so there is a lot of plannings to do and things to think about but I love it.

One of my cat is really sick right now and we need to go to see the vet a few times this week, she have a lot of problem with her kidneys which works at only 20% so we have to take really good care of her, I don't know if she will survive she does not eat a lot  .  She is 12 years old so I expected something like that would happen.  1 of my other cat is 16 years old and the youngest is almost 3 years old.

[witch]

I work as a computer tutor at Polytechnic from 11am to 7pm Tues through Fri, then Saturday 10am to 4pm. I have private clients I support with IT, I often see them in the mornings before I start work or on my 'day off' on a Monday. I also study part time, currently Java programming. My son is nearly 22 and lives with his girlfriend now, so I don't have a dependant, apart from my cat.

My partner and I live 'apart together', he has his own flat but we usually spend weekends together, sometimes the odd week night. It's worked for us for seven years now. Luckily he is even geekier than I, he can happily spend an evening on groklaw, or pulling apart PCs or programming Pic chips or buiding circuitry. At the moment my lounge floor is covered by bits of computer strung together with wires, sometimes he'll add someting or subtract something but the thing still runs. 

I get maybe an hour or two an evening to play, but not always sims. I've had a break in this last week and played (clocked) Startopia. I'm also really taken with nationstates.net, which someone posted a link to on this board, can't remember who. I started with a Scandinavian Liberal Paradise, within a fortnight I've turned it into an iron-fisted socialist regime.

I can quite often do the forums from work whilst baby-sitting the computer room, if a student doesn't need me & I don't have any work, or I want a break from work, I can surf and post.

On Sunday, after the shopping, washing, cooking (big family dinner on Sunday) and so on, I usually get at least 5-6 hours play when I don't have homework. I pay someone to do my gardens and clean the floor and utilities, costs about $50 a fortnight but well worth it in time I gain.

I think I would get bored if I could spend as much time as I wanted on the sims, but because I might only get to play 2-3 times a week, it is still something to look forward to.

[BlueSoup]

I've been really into nationstates lately as well.  I started as a dictatorship, and have taken that to a very good level in the past week or so!  Being dictator kicks ass 

I get up at 5 or 6, depending on when I can drag myself out of bed.  I work from 7.00 - 4.30 at a car dealership, and then when I get home, I catch up on stuff and play in a window for a few hours about 3 days a week.

[KellyQ]

. . . my husband seems to feel he will implode if I'm on the computer and he's awake and at home (he is REALLY not good at entertaining himself).  . . .

He sounds like my husband! 

I work from 8-4:30 p.m., which puts me home about 5 p.m.  I try to get at least 1/2 hour workout in before I start on supper.  By the time supper is cooked, eaten, and cleaned up after, it's usually after 7 p.m.  I sit with the hubby for about an hour (give or take), then off to sims I go 'til at least 11 p.m. 

I am in the same boat on the same river with y'all. JM has disparaged me over how "needy" my hubby seems to be.  My hubby HATES when I am on the computer.  He wants me to watch tv with him.  Yeah, that's togetherness, baby!     I need to get him addicted to a game so he'll leave me alone to sim in peace.  But he thinks they are a "waste of time"

C

My husband is the same way. I keep waiting for an explaination of how t.v. isn't a "waste of time"...or at least how me "wasting" time on a game is any different then him spending 4 hrs watching some televisied football game.

[rohina]

I work as little as possible, which means I go to work to teach my classes and then do the rest from home. Because I can. On the other hand, this weekend I have 90 essays to mark, so very little simming for me, except as a procrastination tool. My husband likes computer games in general, but not sims. He just bought me my own computer so that I wouldn't keep hogging his.

[DrBeast]

One of my cat is really sick right now and we need to go to see the vet a few times this week, she have a lot of problem with her kidneys which works at only 20% so we have to take really good care of her, I don't know if she will survive she does not eat a lot  .  She is 12 years old so I expected something like that would happen.  1 of my other cat is 16 years old and the youngest is almost 3 years old.

16?! Wow, she's OLD! The other sounds like a cat with chronic renal failure. Not much you can do there I'm afraid. You just adjust the food and give her a better quality of life until the inevitable comes. Then again this is just my call on this, and I might as well be wrong (shouldn't open my mouth without knowing all the facts, duh!).
I'm a vet doing my PhD on pharmacology. I'm at the research facility (sounds flashier than lab, doesn't it?) from 10:00 to 15:00, give or take a couple of hours depending on my workload. After that it's me, the 17in screen and the void! I yank myself away from the monitor to spend some time with the g/f when she comes home from Uni (she's a vet student too) around 20:00-21:00, then I play a couple more hours before finally crashing at 2:00-3:00. At weekends we get up at 14:00, watch some TV, go for coffee, then it's a marathon of gaming that lasts until dawn! I'm surprised the g/f hasn't kicked me out yet! Then again, I had clearly stated to her the fact that I'm a computer games junkie from the very beginning!

Edit: it's official, I've lost my manners! Congrats Kerry, welcome to the real world!