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Why I Decided To Stream Video Games on Twitch in 2020

I’m a financially challenged adult, but that doesn’t mean I should give up on the things that make me happy.

Oren Cohen
3 min readDec 28, 2019

For the better part of a decade, I used to worry about money. I wouldn’t sleep at night, I would calculate every month’s expenses and income to bits, and above all, I would be super stressed about all of it. That didn’t leave a lot of time to play video games.

I mean, I did play video games, but I felt guilty for doing so. Setting time for them in a schedule didn’t help either. Every time I played a video game, I had a recurring thought: “you could have used that time to do something else. To create a course, to write something that will make you money, to calculate your bills…again.”

I was losing my mind.

Will I really have to give up on video games? Can’t I incorporate them somehow into my life? They always helped me unwind and relieve stress.

Will I have to cross video games off for good?

For 2020 and the next decade, I decided there must be a better way.

Right, I will have less and less free time. We all overwork ourselves to death for money. In a world where we should have worked at creating new things every day, we…

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Oren Cohen
Oren Cohen

Written by Oren Cohen

Software Engineer and Blogger. He/Him. Contact me: oren@thegeekwriter.com Newsletter: https://theorencohen.com Geek Peek: https://geekpeek.blog

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