Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars

When I was younger around elementary school, I didn't really have any dream job. It wasn't until middle or high school that I had some thoughts of what I wanted to do as a dream job. I had two potential dream jobs that I was interested in. I'm someone that loves gaming and I'm sure that's clear if you've seen my blog posts and even back when I was younger I loved playing video games. With that being said, my dream jobs that I thought about when I was younger was either being a professional gamer or a game developer.

Well I've grown up now and I wasn't able to achieve my dream job. Being a professional gamer isn't easy because you have to be super good at the game. It would be like the equivalent of being a great football player like Ronaldo and Messi if you aimed to be the best of course. I did try to be good at League of Legends which is a 5v5 MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game that started around 2009. I started playing this game around 2013 and the highest rank I achieved was like high diamond which is still the top 1-3% players. This wasn't good enough because to get scouted you would ideally have to be in challenger which was in the less than 1% of players tile. I spent tons of hours playing this game and trying to get to challenger but I never made it and I don't even want to try to math out the hours I spent. In the end, I wasn't good enough and accepted that so I still occasionally play the game for fun.

As for being a game developer, I tried to learn coding and I even did study it at college but I never completed the course. It was a big difference between making the game and playing the game. I didn't really enjoy learning to code and I think you need to have a certain passion and ability to learn this. It's not for everyone and it wasn't for me.

So what am I doing now. Well I am now working with my father's business. I do part-time work doing administrative tasks with some event management for a business club. I also recently became an Online Marketing Lead Generation Specialist and bookkeeping for another business.

Aside from that I also do some side work like blogging here on Hive and investing/trading into crypto and web3 game projects. I am a Team Member of Racevalley which is an upcoming racing play to earn game on Hive. I am also the Assistant Game Master for Splinterlands in Balthazar Guild. I also help my friend manage his guild and play his accounts in Splinterlands. I want to say these are the jobs that were closest to my dream jobs in the past.

Now my dream is to be able to work full time in crypto and web3 and down the road start a business or invest in businesses together with partners. I'm still far from this but let's see how it goes. It's all about the journey; that's what makes it fun because who knows this dream may change as time goes on. This leads me back to my post title "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" which is a quote by Norman Vincent Peale. To me, I think it's good to aim for a dream (the moon) but it's ok if we don't get there because we will still be at a good place (the stars).

Thank you so much for reading. Comment below what's your dream job and if you were able to achieve it.