I still remember the first time I played wow. My friend gave me one of those free trials that came in the box back in the day. I was instantly hooked. I went down the next day to my local game store and bought WoW, and i still have that original box on the shelf next to me as I write this.

Fast forward to 14 years later and I still play wow almost every other day. I have a moderately successful career as the manager of a chain restaurant and live with my partner who fully supports my hobby of playing video games.

When wow classic was announced I was ecstatic, I couldn’t believe it. Finally I could relive my glory days of my youth, but with only 1 problem, I wouldn’t be able to play as much due to my career. I never really gave it much thought as that is part of being a responsible adult.

But I started to think. What if I did something about it? What if I made a change for me to do something I wanted? What if I planned and budgeted to allow myself to quit my career for the rest of the year to play classic? Could I do it?

Over the next few months I worked out a budget, started saving hard and came up with a plan to present to my partner. She was not happy that I wanted to quit my job to play a video game for the rest of the year. She did not understand. So I lied and said that im also doing it to do an online course which will give me better job opportunities, and she was finally on board. I now had a plan, a budget and the support from my partner to take the rest of the year off work.

In 1 week I finish my job and have a week to prepare for release. Once it is the start of next year I will start to look for a new job and continue my career. But for now all I have is time to sit back relax and play classic to my hearts content.

UPDATE

Hello everyone, I am the person who posted this story and I can see there is a lot of mixed responses. I have read all the replies and just wanna say a few things