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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 423934" data-attributes="member: 990">Interesting question.  I'm going to address it from the other side of the coin.  When I interview someone, I ask this, along with several other questions that don't have a single correct answer.  The fact is, I don't care what their hobbies are, as long as they have some.  It's all the same to me if they play sports, crochet, watch NASCAR or play the oboe.  Well-rounded people make better employees.It's like that old question "What is your greatest weakness?"  Employers ask that all the time.  They want to see how you behave when put on the spot.  They really don't care if you can't pass up a jelly doughnut or if you scream at your husband for leaving the toilet seat up.  In fact, giving a literally true answer in this case probably isn't a good idea.  Instead tell them "Sometimes my standards are too high," or "Sometimes I like to indulge myself a bit too much."  Neither is a lie, but they don't suffer from being too much information.Now, for the record.  The last time I had a job interview, I wasn't asked this question.  And I wasn't a gamer back then (It was 1996.)  Were it to come up now, I'm not sure what I would say.  I also play computer games, and that's widely known.  So if I said that I was a gamer, most people I know would assume I was talking about that.</blockquote>