My Role Within GFL

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Hi,

 

I’m making this topic to address a future change with the role I play in GFL. As some of you know, I’ve been trying my best to take a break recently as stated in this post. The reason I took this break was because I’ve been burnt out from GFL along with trying to deal with personal issues. However, I’ve also taken this opportunity to think about my future with GFL.

 

While I do enjoy working on GFL, it requires a lot of energy and time to meet the goals I want to achieve. I often find myself getting burnt out. When this occurs, I find my physical and mental health deteriorating. This ultimately results in a poor health environment for myself and this type of environment continues to live on to this day because I am still getting burnt out fairly often. Ever since I started working a full-time job back in January of 2018, I’ve noticed these issues getting worse because I have to deal with my job as well.

 

I do love GFL and that is the reason I’m still around. GFL has been a part of my life literally every day for the past 8 years now (the 25th of this month marked the 8th birthday of GFL). GFL has made so many accomplishments in the last 8 years both in the community itself and in my life. There is absolutely no doubt it has made me into the person I am now with what I’ve been through in it (the good and the bad). If it weren’t for GFL, I wouldn’t have the awesome job I have now along with living on my own in Texas, US. Hell, I’d probably be working at Home Depot still if it weren’t for GFL. I still plan to make a post some day just sharing how much GFL has changed my life.

 

Due to what GFL means to me, it is also hard to let it go. With that said, if I were to let it go, trust would play a big factor in who I’d give it to (especially after the events that have occurred in the past). I’m getting a little too far ahead of myself, that isn’t my current plan, lol.

 

Anyways, as of right now, I am in the “Founder” role. This was because I felt I didn’t necessarily do Director-related activities. Therefore, we decided to make my own role where I can freely go around and do whatever I want and can. I really don’t care what role I am in, but I feel it’d be best if I didn’t have any role. I can still have back-end access to everything, but I don’t believe I should have any official role within GFL.

 

The reasoning for this is because I plan to take a big step back from GFL. I want to focus on myself and my personal life. Perhaps work on things to make myself happy (e.g. find different hobbies or just work to improve my technical experience). This doesn’t mean I am moving on from GFL. However, if I find myself still overwhelmed and not in good health due to GFL, that might be a possibility. This means I just don’t want to be as involved. I will be doing some stuff (primarily machine upgrades, taking care of emergencies, and handling the PayPal money). I also plan to give advice and make technical guides for our Server Managers and Division Leaders. I just don’t want to play such a big role in everything because that has been required from myself ever since GFL started.

 

Who knows, assuming I haven’t moved on, maybe I’ll learn some more technical-related things while taking a big step back and eventually return with more experience which can potentially further benefit GFL in the future (e.g. actually taking the time to learn the IPS 4 API, lol). Please don’t take my word for that, though. As of right now, the plan is to take a big step back from GFL permanently. But there is always that possibility I guess.

 

I am also confident in our Director team and plan to stay and give them advice as well when needed. GFL has made a lot of success recently within our divisions. There are still a lot of improvements that can be made. I don’t think things have looked this promising in years in regards to that! I will still provide a vision which contains our player’s gaming experience coming first. Ensuring our game servers are setup to be simple along with performing well. This includes not overloading our servers with useless plugins/addons, ensuring our servers have the highest uptime possible, ensuring our servers are performing the best they can (e.g. having our servers running on the best hardware available on the market), and finally, having a laid-back environment where our players feel comfortable playing on our servers.

 

That’s basically it. I’m not sure when this will go in effect, but it will be soon. I would like to finish some of my last tasks before doing so on Trello. I am also locking this thread as well because I don’t think it needs any public discussion.

 

Thank you for understanding.