{"id":911,"date":"2006-09-14T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/14\/tyke-makes-money-teaching-adults-video-game-skills\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T22:23:15","slug":"tyke-makes-money-teaching-adults-video-game-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/14\/tyke-makes-money-teaching-adults-video-game-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyke Makes Money Teaching Adults Video Game Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Victor De Leon III is an eight year old from Long Island who makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09112006\/news\/regionalnews\/vid_kid_a_real_x_fox_regionalnews_jennifer_fermino.htm\">$25 an hour teaching grown-ups how to play the Halo<\/a>  video games at a competitive level, according to the New York Post Online.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There&#39;s also an article with additional information about Victor available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2006\/09\/03\/1855364.htm\">TMCnet<\/a>, which mentions that the child even manages to make money on autographs despite being too young to know how to sign in cursive yet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Probably the thing that shocks me most about the tyke&#39;s business isn&#39;t that he&#39;s 8 years old, it&#39;s that he&#39;s part of a growing industry of gaming tutors available at websites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaming-lessons.com\/\">Gaming-Lessons.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I understand that it makes as much sense as it does for golf instructors to be able to make a living.&nbsp; However, it still makes me raise an eyebrow if only because no matter how much I get into any particular competitive game, it&#39;s still just a game to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor De Leon III is an eight year old from Long Island who makes $25 an hour teaching grown-ups how to play the Halo video games at a competitive level, according to the New York Post Online.&nbsp; There&#39;s also an article with additional information about Victor available through TMCnet, which mentions that the child even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/14\/tyke-makes-money-teaching-adults-video-game-skills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tyke Makes Money Teaching Adults Video Game Skills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}