October 3, 2006
A Great Small Business – Kid Teaches Halo
Written by: Juanchito
An 8 year old has already started his own little small business tutoring people in how to play Halo.
The brown-eyed second grader, Victor De Leon III, has been tutoring gaming greenhorns in Halo 2, an Xbox game in which the player fights to save Earth from destruction, for $25 an hour. That’s a ton of money, considering most of his peers have no income beyond their tooth-fairy stash.
“It’s fun,” said the digital-pastime prodigy, who’s been tutoring people online from the gaming room of his Mastic home for more than a year.
His students hail from as far away as Australia. He’s even given some free pointers to New Jersey Net star Richard Jefferson.
“He’s better at basketball,” Victor giggled.
His proud father, Victor De Leon II, said Jefferson was pretty star-struck meeting the youngster, who goes by the name Lil Poison II in gaming circles.
“He actually asked my son for his autograph,” said De Leon.
Victor happily obliged but had to print it because he doesn’t know cursive yet.
With video games getting bigger and bigger business, this guy has an amazingly bright future ahead of him if he can capitalize on the skills he’s created.
Wow. ITs good to see that kid already gets how the world works. Gaming is huge and its incredible tat someone so young can already be a master. It willbe intresting to see if gaming can include education games that kids would really want to play and learn at the same time.
That reminds me of a Far Side cartoon from years back, where parents were dreaming of classified ads in the future looking for Super Mario players…