New York Post – September 11, 2006:
A shy 8-year-old Long Island boy wonder is making money hand over fist by teaching grownups how to master a popular video game.
The brown-eyed second grader, Victor De Leon III, has been tutoring gaming greenhorns in Halo 2, an Xbox game in which the player fights to save Earth from destruction, for $25 an hour. That’s a ton of money, considering most of his peers have no income beyond their tooth-fairy stash.
“It’s fun,” said the digital-pastime prodigy, who’s been tutoring people online from the gaming room of his Mastic home for more than a year.
That’s like 52K a year!
Awesome!
Like an 8 year old does a 40 hour work week! His parents should make him work at least 75 or so!
Does he do his own invoicing?
Call me an old fart, but that kid should go to school and socialize with kids his own age.
Yes, but the people he’s teaching will still be n00bs. For just $30 an hour I’ll let you into my *1337 p\/\/|\|4g3 101 class. This week were working on lesson 3: 7|-|3 4|27 0|= |=|24gg1|\|g.
*not an actuall class… not yet anyways.
Haha, that’s cute. But 25 an hour sounds far fetch. I hope his earning go straight into college funds.
Hopefully his parents are making him save that money because I know when I was 8, it would all be going towards candy.
Bleh if he was teaching them out to play The OldSkool™ games then yeah that would be cool but Halo? Meh…
#8 OK, You asked for it. YOU ARE AN OLD FART. Feel better now. My video game growing up was a Kaleidescope, 5 cents at Kresges 5 and dime.
Hope you have a swell day
Sorry #8 but this old fart meant # 4
gawd.. how could anyone stand listening to a squeaky voiced 8 year old telling you how to play a video game? Does he even have the vocabulary to explain things to an adult, with out said adult having his brain blow up?
For fucks sake, playing Halo 2 is NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO LEARN TO PLAY! Most of us “old farts” have been playing first person shooters LONG BEFORE THIS BRAT WAS BORN. I find this to be rather bogus. I’m sure the IRS will like to audit this kid.
#11, it sounds to me like somebody pissed in your cornflakes this morning. Geeze, you don’t need to be a sore loser.
The kid’s vocabulary is simpler and will see things differently then adults. Combine those and the explanations are more likely to be simple and relevant.
My kid is 7 yrs old and pretty good at most of her PS2 games. She wumps my butt all the time. Maybe,… Anyone need lessons?
Lol this is really, really funny. wow this kid is making more than a lot of adults and he isn’t even in high school yet. So for all of you people dissing him I think u should go get a better job so you don’t have time to come and look at this kids genious mind.
signing off Jeremy