I've written this, sort of like a story, but also as knowledge to pass on to future or present leaders, maybe not aware of what they have to expect.
Most of the time, being a club leader feels like:
and sometimes it feels more like:
and sometimes even a bit:
I tried to tell all of those sides in my short story of my 7 years as a leader.
[Image link blocked]I've now been a club leader for over 7 years, starting in February 2011. When I started it was mainly because I was kicked out of my first club for being "unactive" in chat, and figured I wanted to have a club where it shouldn't matter what level of active I was..
So... I made the club JailBirds
Why that name? Well.. the story is, that back then there were a lot of standard layouts you could chose from, and I liked the jail-themed one, and made a name to compliment it. It was a quell in a prison suit? I think?
Wanna see cringe material? These were our first ranks..
oh! and this haha!
[Image link blocked][Image link blocked]oh yeah, and let's not forget when logos were a thing! xD
[Image link blocked]I'm a little embarrassed that I felt the need to sign it..
Anyway, so JailBirds was born!
And after a while, I noticed that other clubs were not using these pre-made layouts.. sooo then I had to teach myself HTML, which I did
This is like the second big thing that Mara has cudos for getting me to teach myself.
Sidenote, I wasn't very good tho.. so instead, I tended to make the boxes in paint or a similar program, and then just insert the images in the layout.
[Image link blocked]In the beginning we were like 12 members, with 3 o
