[Sifter]

I've always wondered what everyone's been up to since the heyday of this community. I'm friends with a few of you on Facebook, it's always nice to see posts from you guys.

It's such a trip, I always use this scene as a major reference point in my life.
For example, a couple years ago I took a Visual Basic class at my local community college. The whole course was a refresher to me because we were always fucking around with that stuff back in the day. I mean I really have this forum to thank for the bulk of my professional skill set. Not that I'm much better than when I was 12, 13...

I'm 27 now , I have an AA in Microcomputer Applications which of course sounds fancier than it is. Just a degree focused on the Office and Creative Cloud suites, with a touch of programming (Visual Basic, very entry level Java), networking, and Linux. Basically I got a degree that would allow me to do something along the lines of tech support, marketing, basic graphic design, office work.

Currently jobless because I got tired of retail, and COVID-19 gave me the perfect excuse to quit working at Target lmfao. Now I've got time on my hands and I'm working toward being able to work from home, mostly trying to stick with graphic work - and I've got time on my hands to practice. My girlfriend of the last 5 years works doing freelance writing on sites like Verblio. She only works like 3 hours a day and makes more than twice what I fucking did working retail, even when I was management, so she's paying all the bills and I'm just out here lookin' like a SIMP.

So I took the long route to sticking with those skills we all developed as kids. But I want back in it, so thanks Chris for bringing this back. I think it helps me focus on hat I should've done for years.

What've you all been up to?


EDIT:

I never really found another community anything like this after ThyElite and BlackBay were gone. Ran a few Minecraft servers, had some cross-game clans on Minecraft and SWTOR, among a few others. Hell m3th and I ran a Minecraft server for a while haha. Nothing was ever as tight-knit as this though.