• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me the small domino was building quake 1 levels, setting up 10mbps LANs at lan parties, and making dedicated servers with map cycles and third party skins. I quit playing games at these lan parties and instead spent my time doing sysadmin stuff, and I thought “I can make money doing this if I keep getting better at it.”

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      1 year ago

      Based on your username i guess you must be the bastard operator from hell ;)

      Bastard Operator from Hell

      Jokes aside, your story reminds me of my own, even though i needed to take a detour to realize i would love to make money doing that stuff.