This depends on what your goal is (Hyperlink – Article Coming Soon), but in essence you will want to take steps in developing your portfolio and experience for your career of choice.

For example, if you want to become an esports tournament coordinator or event organizer, you may want to start by creating an online tournament or starting a community club. From that, you can start building a community and look to book out a venue to host a physical event. By continuously hosting and scaling up esport events, you will start developing a portfolio that will be desirable for organizations, or you could decide to create your own business at that point.

In that example, I did not touch on all the hardships and struggles that the individual will have to go through. He would have to learn how to organize an online event, how to advertise it and he will make a lot of mistakes along the way. Not to mention that he may have been funding that specific event from his own wallet. Afterwards, he will have to deal with venue managers, perhaps he will reach out to sponsors. He may get taken advantage of by his venue manager, he could get sued by his sponsors, or he could host an event that is hated by his participants.

During all this, he is spending his own personal time he could have been using to relax as he juggles schoolwork or a job with this side hustle.

As you can see, it may not be easy, but it doesn’t have to be hard either. It depends on how smart you are with your plan. Perhaps if you understood the law, his sponsors would not have sued him. If he knew venue rates, maybe the venue manager wouldn’t have been able taken advantage of him.

He could have taken a different path altogether. He could have avoided all those risks by just volunteering with a locally established esports organization already. Would that provide the same return-on-investment, possibly? I could argue that it wouldn’t, but if all you want is to get a job in the industry, that may be the smarter path to take.

But as that individual, its not right to look at your mistakes as things to regret. Rather, after each occasion he has learned something he didn’t know prior. He got smarter and developed his understanding of the industry and the business world.