Pursuing My Career Goal

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Hey everyone,

 

I've been thinking long and hard about something the last two - three months or so ever since I started building out the Anycast network with @Dreae. I had a decision to make and after long talks with my colleagues, my friends, and others experienced in the area, I've finally came to a conclusion. The decision was whether I wanted to pursue a career goal of becoming a hosting provider in the future. Last night I decided I wanted to give it a shot. Obviously, this is way easier said than done. There is A LOT that would go into this and the reasoning I've thought about this decision for so long was because I kept telling myself I wasn't ready (many said I was overthinking everything as well). However, my approach to this will be starting out small (as it should be). I do still feel I have a lot to learn, but I am willing to learn everything I can and I'll more than likely even find it fun/interesting along the way there. With that said, I have a lot of support from others experienced in this area that are willing to help me out which I highly appreciate. Although, I want to learn as many things on my own as I can because self-teaching yourself is the best method of learning in my opinion. I will be creating this company with one of my IRL best friends as well.

 

I want to talk about myself and GFL next. I've been working on GFL daily for the last 8+ years and although it isn't perfect, I do feel I did a pretty damn good job at it. It is an overall successful community. I still have many plans written out for it, but I don't feel I have the motivation and time to implement them (this is something I've struggled with for years). Realistically, I haven't made a single dime from the community in profit (never have, never will) and my job needs to take priority since that gives me a paycheck and supports my life. With me pursuing my goal of becoming a hosting provider, I will need to take a big step back from GFL. I just don't feel I have the capacity to handle my actual job, GFL, the Anycast network, and the new hosting company I create. I am not going to step down from TA because I will be handling the Anycast network and some back-end related things with the web machine, but I cannot be expected to do anything in the community itself. I will be talking to our internal staff regarding this and the community will be put into good hands. But again, I'll still technically be here, so there's that.

 

As for the new company I plan to create, even if it were to fail, I would still learn a lot from it and it would give me a lot of experience (perhaps later on I could attempt it again if it were to fail). I can use this new knowledge elsewhere and it'd be great to put on my resume (putting what I've done with GFL on my resume is already great, but putting what I've done with my own hosting company would be great as well, lol). My personal end-goal is for it to eventually support my life solely so I can put 100% into the company daily. Obviously, I have a lot of other goals for the company itself. I just need to start out small and think things through. It could even takes years before it takes off.

 

I plan to make my own personal website in the future. I'll be posting things there about the progress I'm making and how my overall life is going. I'll also be posting stuff here as well to share to all of you because well, GFL is and always will be in my life more than likely.

 

If you want to know more information about this, please feel free to message me or reply here.

 

Thank you!

[Guest SkydivingSquid]

Best of luck, @Roy! 
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Edited May 27, 2019 by SkydivingSquid

[Skittlez 721 / 11,279]

This is really awesome Roy! I truly hope things go smoothly and you succeed with your career path! 🙂 

 

You should make a section with your updates so that you’re not completely disconnected from the community! Can’t wait to see/hear more! 

[Trigger 155 / 4,994]

Good luck Roy!

 

Remember not to lose hope, and to always move forward, one step at a time!

 

😄

[TheJitFace 699 / 18,157]

Good luck!

[Astral Rogue 188 / 3,914]

Hopefully everything will go well with your career path, Roy. 

[Bara 38 / 2,029]

Good luck, and if you need help with sourcepawn or something around source servers let me know. 

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Thank you for the support everyone  I really appreciate it!

 

Thanks.

[VilhjalmrF 2,099 / 30,684]

Good luck mate! We hope it goes great for you!

[k2nod 198 / 6,333]

I better get a discount whenever I'll rent from you. jk hahaha I'm sure you'll be a good Hosting provider. Keep us updated on the company. 

[SwegBuster 879 / 15,758]

Hey! When you start being a host, if you need help with anything let me know. If not still let me know, I want to buy some hosting stuff  

 

 

[nick027nd 139 / 3,313]

Best of luck, Roy! I really feel that you'll do well with this!