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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.

I had only started getting into the Magic online community around 2015/2016, mostly following cosplayers because that shit rocks. Started following more creators and pro players in the space. Interacting with people online but still a nobody.

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.

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.

Each space has to grow and adapt to the members and leaders that live there. Every place is different, but the underlying tools, integrations, and structure are pretty similar. By doing all this, I've been pulled into extremely large community servers to assist in improving their setup.

In total, I have done past or present admin work on close to a hundred servers or more. Actively, I have an admin or mod role on ~60 at the moment. I'm not hands-on on most of the day-to-day but set up notifications to let me know when I need to give something attention.