Soccer referee eh? My sympathies. I reffed for at least 5 years doing intramural to travel and youth state tournaments. Parents can really kill te experience as they can be vicious at times.

For me, I make more than enough doing summer internships for companies. The bigger challenge is the time for gaming, which unfortunately seems nonexistant now.

work hard and gamefly on a budget by and sell used games the regular stuff!

Yeah. I'm 16, and parents tend to think that since i'm not an adult they can abuse me into changing my calls easier than they could someone older. Its pretty rough.
I primarily ref the summer tournaments

I clean toilets at a catholic school.

oh wait, thats someone else i'm thinking of.

my parents paid for my PS3 (back when it was more expensive too :)), and they'll buy some random games. but I paid for my 360.

i work a job that is only ok, im the manager of a planet smoothie. work there full time and i am a full time college student. so i have the money to buy games just no time to play them. shoot i bought MGS4 at midnight when it came out and havent even played it. my super mario galaxy is still shrinkwrapped and i bought that wayyyyy back

A full time programming job. But I also have a wife and cat to feed.

Once in a while maid and (before) money from my father. Though now if I buy a game I can't buy anything else. I got bills to pay. -__-'

Thats buying smart. I am buying about 60% of my games used on Amazon these days, and by the end of summer I should be up to about 80%. Some games you just got to buy new though- Mario Kart, Smash act. At least I feel the need :D

I am trying to get a job as a bagger to afford gaming this summer.

Pappy.

Amazon is a great place to buy new games as well, Hawkeye!