A 50-year-old woman has confessed to taking days off work to spend time gaming. Self-confessed nerd Caroline Alexander, 50, takes around seven days of annual leave each year to play on her Xbox Series X when big games are released.
She's been gaming since she was six and has even roped in her husband, Phil - with the pair now spending date nights playing Diablo 4. Caroline - who gets 22 days of annual leave each year - first fell in love with gaming through a popular arcade game, Jetset Willy in January 1982, before moving onto modern consoles.
Now, she plays modern classics like Fable, Diablo 3, and Mass Effect with 57-year-old Phil, a computer programmer, after "demanding" he join her beloved hobby. Caroline, who has been taking annual leave to game for seven years, began booking weeks off after the release of Dragon Age Inquisition, an action role-playing game, and now continues to take annual leave for every big game release.
