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Updated: 2024/09/17
For the past year, I've been taking a break from doing anything entrepreneurial. I burned myself out early last year, but a combination of expenses, inspiration, and future plans for my wife and I, I have decided to ask myself the question again, what can I do to make more money? For now, I'm starting with flipping small electronics (i.e. controllers and handheld consoles) and content creation on Twitter, Instagram, and Twitch. I'm trying to take it very slow and considering profits above all else. I have most of the tools I need to get started, so now it's all about doing it. You can keep up with my resale if you go to the store at the top of the page.
Along with shifting my goals and trying to save money, I'm putting less energy into being really competitve with Fighting Games.
I realized that if I wanted to get to the next level, I would have to spend a lot of money on coaching, traveling, and tournaments and I don't think that is best for me right now.
I'm still going out to support as many locals as I can, but signing up for games that fewer people play, or just going for casuals.
With the support of Neon Dreams Arcade, I have been pushing to do tournaments for puzzle games (like tetris, puyo puyo, etc.) and we got a date on the calendar!
It's actually today when I'm writing this.
I've been putting a lot of energy into promoting it and I'm hoping to help create a more organized local community for it.
The games I'm playing now are Puyo Puyo Tetris, Granblue Fantasy Versus, whichever retro game Tampa Gaming Dojo is running (this month it's Vampire Savior), and very little Tekken.
The King of Fighters Community is very strong in Mexico and other spanish speaking communities.
Having to interact with so many spanish speakers has inspired me to try to review my spanish skills.
I somehow passed four years of spanish in school without putting that much effort into it, but now, as an adult, I get to try again.
I'm starting with Duolingo to build up the habit, but I hope to use other tools as well.
In May, August, and Novemeber of this year, I have volunteered to be a pollworker for Pinellas County for the elections. I figured if I'm not doing much to volunteer and help, I can at least give up three days a year at a minimum. For this upcoming election I will be an assistant clerk! Basically I will be helping everyone at the site, being #2 to the clerk, and we are fortunate at our site to have a good one. Make sure you go and vote yourself!
I'm still working at Engage fi and I really like it there. I'm the system admin of the tool we use called Smartsheet. I get to interact with people all across the company to build tools and get the right data to the right places. Since I got my CAPM, I've been able to do a bit more project management work and it's been pretty rewarding so far.
I have been pretty bad about reading, but I think for what I'm focused on now, I'm going to try to read just a little bit every day.
I got too ambitious with myself and my reading list, so now I'm going to get back to just worrying about one book at a time.
If you want to see what I'm reading click the links below.
I've been good about following along with my Comic Book club.
They are a great group of folks to be around!