My first Minecraft server I was ever staff of was UltimateCraft Minigames. It was 2012, and it was the first time of my applying for staff. I was very new to the process, however I was their first Helper to be on the server. The server's rules were very simple and basic common sense: no spamming, no hacking, et cetera. During my 5 month long time as Helper, I was given Staff of the Month after muting over 300 different user and banning over 500 hackers. Overall, the server was very popular; it even hit 125 players during my time as a staff member. However, after 5 months on their staff team, I retired from their team so that I could continue to get higher positions on other servers. Not very long after I retired, the server was closed down due to the lack of money to pay the host's invoice. During UltimateCraft's end, I had became a Moderator for RedSkull PvP and Factions. The server was very well made. However, its popularity was varying too much to get a clear average. From what I could find, the average online was 67 players, yet this was higher on the weekends. As my three month time on the server dwindled, the server's popularity shrank. It grew very boring and desolate. Inevitably, the server's owner shut the server down due to its lack of popularity. After those two servers came to close off 2012 for me, a friend and I started our own server. We named it LimboCraft and made it a Factions server. I was given Co-Owner of the server, and we made a deal that follows such: to stay as Co-Owner I must pay half of the invoice ($22.50) every month and I must be on at least twelve hours per week. We built the spawn for the server, edited the configurations the plugins, and boosted the server's popularity. In the end, the server had an average of 61 players online. However, after about 3 months running, the server's host was DDOS'ed severely. It was such a terrible attack that the hosting company sent us a ginormous invoice of $350. They claimed that the host that was running our server encountered a damaged hard drive and overheated computer processing units. We had to pay for the damages. After two long months of paying for the damages, we completed the full invoice payment. After the tragedy of LimboCraft, I applied for Moderator on AquariusCraft. However, after helping the Owner with plugins, he promoted me, not to Moderator, but he promoted me to Administrator. He thought that I would be a good person to help with creating the server. I ended up doing many things to help him such as showing him plugins that are more efficient, what hosts to select, what to do if a DDOS attack occurs, et cetera. After he hired another Administrator, he promoted me to Head-Administrator, which I served for six months total. However, the server was doomed to fail after several Moderators because corrupt and kept abusing their powers as well as hurt the Owner emotionally. He could not handle the pain of having so many people betray him, and he stopped the server. He achieved an over 100 player average, and he threw it all away. He and I still talk over Skype because of what he did for me, and I will never forget that. After AquariusCraft's closing, I decided that it be fitting to apply for Moderator on another server. I applied on a PvP and Factions server that was called ApachePvP. The Owner accepted my Moderator application, and let me have a special Administration trial, which lasts three weeks. After the trial ended, I was promoted to Administrator. However, I only served for one month as an Administrator because of how needy and rude the players were to me and the other staff members. I resigned because of that, for I was not going to tolerate being heavily harassed by the other players. After ApachePvP, I joined a server called UnitedCraft Skyblock. The server was very well constructed and had many custom plugins. However, I joined when the server was just starting. The Owner, who was named Jacob, was selecting staff among the players. I was selected among the players. After being hired as a Moderator, I was amazed by how complex the server was behind the chat. The custom plugins were very well made, and they were very functional. This previewed me to how amazing custom plugins are. However, during my month as Moderator, Jacob went on a trip and never came back. He was unable to pay the host, which ultimately caused the server to fail and shut down. A while after UnitedCraft, I applied for Moderator on Kyuzi PvP. However, I was promoted to Head Administrator for the server. The Owner, named Kyuzi, was very astonished by my application. Such so, that he promoted me to Head-Admin. However, getting to know the staff was awkward at first. At the time, I was fourteen years old, yet I was introduced to a group of people who are sixteen to twenty-two years old. I had never been in such a situation like that, and it only helped me understand that much more about what it is like to be that high of a ranking on the staff team. The server's staff was very nice, they managed the custom plugins, spawns, minigames, et cetera. The server's popularity was immense, for it had over 97 players on at any point in time. It was truly remarkable. However, Kyuzi PvP taught me the true importance of staff in the most extreme cases. The server was a great shift in who I am, and it offered me a great sight of how a server manages its staff and players. After six months as the Head Administrator, I retired to find more opportunities for me. After retiring, I joined a server named EnderClub OP Factions. The server is somewhat new, and it has been through a lot since its first release. It was not really popular until the last month of my moderation. I was a Head Moderator, and I picked the staff for the server. However, the community that the server had attracted was grotesque. Many of the new players were not behaved whatsoever, and they harked on the other staff to the point where they were resigning one by one. However, I, too, resigned after the Owner, named Ethan, deemed me 'no longer needed', which was untrue. However, with my demotion on EnderClub OP Factions, he promoted me to Head Administrator of the sister server, EnderClub Towny. The server has attracted a great crowd, and I have managed their staff applications and plugins ever since my starting days on there. I am still currently active on the server. However, I have also been promoted on another server named Aternos. I am their current Developer, and I have a temporary serve time allotted, which is two months. After this time ends, I am not going to be a part of their Developer team, for I need to focus more on other servers such as EnderClub Towny. I also do have two very important roles in communities outside of the server: babysitting and section leading in marching band. I have been babysitting for a very long time, ever since I was eleven years old. Being a babysitter showed me what it was like to govern children, which makes up a large entirety of Minecraft's community. Controlling and behaving children was never too difficult, for once they got to know you very well, if they were capable of understanding, they treated you as if you were their sibling. I have always enjoyed the job, and I will go back to it one day later on, perhaps as a secondary business or job. Another worthy moderation that I have done outside of Minecraft is my Section Leader status in my band. I play Low Brass (Tombone, Euphonium/Baritone, Tuba, etc.). As being the Section Leader for the Low Brass section, which is around 30+ people, I have to conduct rehearsals, help all players memorize their music as well as improve places that need improvement, teach them their drill formations, and conduct the band altogether. The process to process of getting Section Leader is very tough. You have to memorize a series of military and marching band commands ("Band, horns down!", "Band, ten, hut!", et cetera), march in fast and slow tempos, play a six minute long Etude (a difficult passage of music designed to challenge the player in many ways), and memorizing and conducting a full marching band show. You have to get at least a 35/50 in every category to get the spot, and I competed against six other people for the spot. The new position creates a new role for me in the marching band's most important section, the Low Brass section.