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Quit mowing lawns and delivering papers

December 29, 2006 by in Entertainment with 8 Comments

Still moving lawns during the summer? Maybe you’re still delivering papers, scrubbing tables, ringing groceries at the corner mart? Take a hint from Bonnie “Xena” Burton. This 15-yr. old is considered a professional gamer and makes a decent income because of it [via].

For coaching, she earns $25 an hour, which meant the teenager could quit baby-sitting local kids. The higher hourly wage could free her to pursue hobbies like horseback riding and dance. But she has almost devoted her entire life to Halo. And she doesn’t date. “Boyfriends are too much of a hassle, especially if they don’t play Halo. And now I can baby-sit an older guy and get 25 bucks,” she says. I make baby noises the next time she blows me up.

I don’t know about anyone else, but if I was making $25 / hr when I was 15… I can’t even imagine. It’s not even really the amount that she makes, it’s the fact that she gets to enjoy her video games while getting paid.


  • SMASH!!!!

    if i was making 255 a hour at 15 i would of had a bigger drug problem then i did

  • http://thirdstring.com Kibby

    A friend of mine and I use to be the candy cartels or our Middle school. We would whip up batches of sugar and koolaid and sell it like it was a drug. Kids would buy it quater filled sandwich baggies for 2 dollars . After about a month and about few hundred $’s each we got caught since some kids parents thought it was really cocaine. We did not get punished that bad since it was not a drug and they were actually impressed by our operation since it did not interfere with our school work.

    After the dust settled we moved up to selling college ruled paper dipped in a mixture of water, a tad of sugar and cinnamon extract. We let it dry over night and sold each sheet for a buck. The ROI was way higher and the product was easier to conceal since the paper looked like normal paper when it was dry. We use to make books of the stuff for about a $10 investment. The kids would tear little chunks off the sheets and chew them to get the sweet cinnamon taste. I think we had the entire school addicted till some other kid moved in to our market with cinnamon toothpicks. Being kids we got easliy distracted by all the nintendo games and random crap we bought with our bounty and never got around to coming up with new master plan.

  • Cynic821

    Video games can become a chore too. Its like work playing Halo now adays, needs to be refreshed. Only game i consistantly revisit once a month with a buddy with all my other toys and 1000′s of games on PS3, PS2, 360, Wii, blah blah blah, Is Super Castlevania 4 for SNES and now even better, the Wii.

  • al

    I was I was “$15″ too. oh well.

  • Alan Rager

    I used to play Halo 2, but M$ banned me from Live because I swapped out my DVD drive for a working LG one I got from Newegg. I wish I could get paid, period. I worked 50+ hour weeks this summer for tips only at my mom’s restaurant. Oh well.

  • chad

    Kibby = Tony Montana of middle school

    I sold the same Koolaid mixture, but minus the sugar, we were a big “sour” crowd. In 3rd grade I used to sell hand drawn tattoos from my “notebook” for a quarter, some of the more complex went for 50 or 75 cents.

  • http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex B

    “especially if they don’t play Halo” .. I dont know of one 15-yr. old boy that isn’t paying Halo. There should be lines of boys outside her door waiting to date her.

    And in her case, it wont be dating exactly, but another Halo teammate that she can also be in love with, lol. She just better hope he doesn’t go on the other team, or else that relationship will be out in a flash.

  • Dylan

    I’m 15 and I’ve never played Halo xD

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