I played for one and a half years from the start of 2005 to mid-2006, where the friend who got me into it created an enormous guild who would do multiple MC runs every week and had quite a presence on the server. Eventually it became too much upkeep and the guild dissolved some months after I left. Besides the enormous time-suck, it was an amazing experience coordinating with up to 40 people at a time to accomplish tough goals.

The work guild is much more casual and therefore not as much of a time-suck. The return was filled with nostalgia, but since there has been two expansion packs there’s a lot of new game content to explore (which I will probably never get through completely!). They have also improved the game to remove a lot of the annoyances and pointless time-wasting things to help reduce frustration.

You can follow the progress of my main character here.

I had an amazing 6 months with Morgan Creative but after a partnering company unexpectedly withdrew their support, they weren’t able to keep me on. I was very sad to leave because I was working with awesome people on awesome stuff in an awesome location.

During my job search I was basically looking for three things:

• a larger company,
• a ‘cool’ office environment/culture, and
• a recognised name.

This led me to Atlassian, who have been growing fast. They’re a big name in software, especially for Sydney. The company is filled with really smart people and the culture is still very start-upish, which is awesome. I’ve been brought on as a Support Engineer for JIRA Studio, a hosted version of virtually all Atlassian products.

The whole process, from the interviewing stages to having just finished my second day, has been great. Everyone is very friendly and it’s clear that they really do care about people over processes. I think I’m going to like it here!