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Been thinking about doing this thread for a long while since it comes up a lot: "Hey, Logan. What is it that you actually do?" Bear with me. This is a long one. I might add more later and this thread won't have a message counter. Bookmark this post if you want something to go back and reference.

First and foremost: I'm a Senior System Administrator for an electric utility/fiber ISP. Day-to-day I manage, maintain, and fix the infrastructure for ~130 employees. We have roughly 30,000 electric meters in our territory and also serve internet to that whole area.

It's a very easy job for me, pays the bills, provides benefits like insurance and retirement. It's pretty nice. Not my dream job, though.

Hobby work I do on the side is what I'm passionate about. I started moderating Twitch chats in 2012/2013 or so in the StarCraft community. Migrated to moderating and then administrating Discord servers for a few folks. Turns out I was really good at it.

I met a lot more creators/commentators in StarCraft through the people I worked with. Met a bunch at BlizzCons and such. Became friends and started to help more folks out. This was 2018/2019-ish.

2019 is when I started watching Olivia stream her metalwork. When she started streaming Commander, I offered to help fix it up. After showing off some examples of what I could do, she gave me a shot and it really worked out lol.

Has it only been five years??

Through her, I was introduced to the Commander RC, Prof, and just a swath of awesome people. They all saw potential and let me run with it. The following posts will describe those things I do.

Firstly, and most obviously, I community admin Discord servers. I've learned a lot about handling this stuff over the past decade and it's suited me well for handling problematic people and designing safe and inclusive community spaces for folks to collaborate.