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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ajax1979" data-source="post: 5699350" data-attributes="member: 37152">There's more good advice in this thread than in some classes I've taken on topics like this. I went through something very similar about a year after I joined this forum and did not start reposting until this year. After undergrad I could not find a job in my chosen field. I got a retail job and fully expected to go into a "real" job at any time. After four years it became obvious that wasn't going to happen. I blamed RPGs, novels, cycling, video games, and general socializing. I quit gaming and sold almost every leisure item I'd bought since the early 1990s. My problem was I coasted through college and high school without working hard. I didn't have the kind of time management and research skills people even half my age did. I had to retrain my brain in my late 20s. I'm still not doing what I want with my life but I now have a much better job. My rule of thumb is that I do not spend more time preparing for the game than I do running it. So if we're playing a four hour game I spend no more than four hours doing prep. I currently run an AD&D 2nd Mystara/FR mash-up and a Pathfidner Rise of the Runelords game. So I'm playing more than I did when I was having problems.</blockquote>