Raftermans Blog.

My experience with e-sports has been one of my most recent notable things I've done and I figured I want to get it all down before I start to forget anything. This is the last chapter and I haven't until now realised how lucky I am to have been able to compete at the event and to have a team that was willing to support me whilst I competed. Dreamhack is pretty much the biggest e-sport festival. It's been around for years now and is primarily held in Sweden. The fact that I'm from the UK made being able to attend this pretty difficult so I'm forever grateful to Awesome Gaming and more specifically to Anton and Tobias for arranging my travel.  Credit to Dreamhack So I've just come back from the Ministry of Win . I'm feeling confident about Starcraft but I'm beginning to hate it more and more. I was wary of my new team Awesome Gaming because they seemed to promise a lot of things which just seemed too good to be true. Everything that they pro

In an earlier blog post , in fact my first ever blog post, I wrote about my experiences trying to become a pro gamer. An interesting brief segment of that was living in a professional gaming house. I figured I'd write a more in-depth post about this as it was probably one of the most major events. I stayed for little over a month, the house was located in Warsaw, Poland and could hold about 12 people excluding staff. It's an experience that Is certainly once in the lifetime and I jumped at the chance but, lets start from the beginning Credit to sett.fi. I was playing the game Starcraft everyday, watching it, thinking it. I was obsessed. I learnt that a gaming house had opened called the Ministry of Win through a promotional event. They were going to invite three players to the house who could stay, free of charge for three months. I contemplated entering this but after seeing some of the people who entered, which were famous within the Starcraft scene, I knew it wa

So my latest venture is certainly different and interesting. I found myself with an abundance of spare time because I haven't received shifts at where I work and money was starting to become a problem. Like a lot of unemployed people I spent a lot of my time browsing Reddit. They recently made a post about a jobs fair, with masses of information about careers and different types of jobs, in there I noticed a sub Reddit (a subforum) which was called work online. As a relatively secular person and an introvert, the idea of having a job that I control and can do from home is basically a dream that I thought only professionals and the top .001% would have but nevertheless I started browsing the subreddit.  There was a wide range of different types of jobs, some which I had heard about and seemed less desirable like filling out surveys and affiliate link spamming. Others actually seemed promising, a website called clickworker seemed to be the most popular and high paying. It