I'm amazed that you still have your voice Wheat. After years upon years of really pioneering your position, working on radio and broadcast work, shoutcasting, and now that your'e on the phone with coworkers and clients during the day and go directly into casting at night, I'm truly amazed.

Your family is as lucky to have you and you are to having them. You do such an amazing service to whichever community you are a part of and you often times dont' get the credit you deserve.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

May 27 2011 17:12 GMT

#42

Very inspiring djWheat, I hope everything works out for you because having OMG take off isn't just more time for eSports, but more time for your family as well. Made me sad that you couldn't spend as much time as you could with them T_T

Thoramas

Singapore152 Posts

May 27 2011 17:13 GMT

#43

You are awesome wheat! I wish the best for you and your family =)

Hawkke

United States41 Posts

May 27 2011 17:13 GMT

#44

Give this man an award or something.

Holding down a full time job and dedicating that much time into a passion with a family...

I have no child and no shows to host but I do want to dedicate my free time to creating a possible future career in eSports, you give me hope!

OminouS

Sweden1343 Posts

May 27 2011 17:15 GMT

#45

You are awesome. Please keep being awesome.

wacksteven

United States139 Posts

May 27 2011 17:15 GMT

#46

Good write-up, bud. Hopefully people will understand what's involved with this kind of lifestyle now. Next one should be about effort put in and return when we started out, hahaha.

Bumblebee43

18 Posts

May 27 2011 17:16 GMT

#47

I feel really lucky to have you as a part of the community Wheat. You put so much of yourself into what you do and I am thankful for this. The day you are able to do starcraft full time will be a good day for the scene.

Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

May 27 2011 17:17 GMT

#48

This is why people call me a dick. Because whenever someone writes "I want to be a professional Starcraft player" or "I want to commentate full time" I'm always the first one in there telling him hobbies should stay hobbies. Starcraft rarely pays, and when it does, it often pays poorly. If one of the top guys can't support himself through commentary, what does that say about the rest of us?

That said, I hope one day someone with a golden voice and incredible marketing and business development skills comes in and shows us how to scoop up a ton of money through sponsored commentary. Until that day I'll remain a hobbyist because I'm certainly not that man.

blackone

Germany1314 Posts

May 27 2011 17:17 GMT

#49

Wow, I had no idea, and couldn' even imagine, that you have a fulltime job alongside all the esports related stuff you do. Sounds like you work incredibly hard, and while I'm not really a fan of your shows (just by personal preference) I really hope it will pay off and you can safely live off your SC2 endeavours as soon as possible.

Muffinman53

571 Posts

May 27 2011 17:20 GMT

#50

Wow, I had no idea that you worked a full time job on top of his SC2 responsibilities. Props to your wife. Must be awesome to have someone that supportive there :D

And keep up the awesome work! The community greatly appreciates it!

Datum

United States371 Posts

May 27 2011 17:21 GMT

#51

Amazing. I love how personal this is.

Also, mad respect for working a shitty job so that your family is in a stable state. That is just about the most important, best thing that I can think of.

Also, you'll get a break at some point. Maybe not now, or for a few months, or a year, but something will happen eventually. The whole TL community is behind you, which may not mean much, but it means something.

Meapak_Ziphh

United States6788 Posts

May 27 2011 17:23 GMT

#52

This was really cool! Great for everyone to truly understand how things are done.

kNightLite

United States408 Posts

May 27 2011 17:23 GMT

#53

Wow I had no idea. Goddamn, someone hire this man!

I don't think you need to worry about being considered a "bad parent". Its clear that you've made a lot of sacrifices and really love your family. You sir are a role model.

Darthozzan

Sweden136 Posts

May 27 2011 17:26 GMT

#54

Very interesting read djWHEAT, thank you for putting this out there. I half-expected something like this, but didn't realize how little time you actually got to spend with your family. I hope that you can one day sustain yourself purely on the blood of ESPORTS, but I realize you're not there yet -- maybe when OneMoreGame really takes off.

Once again, thank you so much for posting this, hopefully this will help aspiring casters and, sadly, haters aswell realize how much it takes to do something substantial in ESPORTS. Hopefully people realize that casters can't just play 15 hours a day to try and improve themselves when they see your schedule...

imPERSONater

United States1324 Posts

May 27 2011 17:26 GMT

#55

Love the effort wheat. If the snippets we get from Miniwheat are any indication he is going to be the most baller person of all time, so it looks like you are doing well with the fathering too! Keep it up! Weapon of Choice with you and chill is right up there with state of the game for my listen pleasure

ClysmiC

United States2192 Posts

May 27 2011 17:29 GMT

#56

Just wanna say hats off to you DJ. Sounds like time is a crunch, so I think it is amazing to see your consistent dedication to eSports.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

May 27 2011 17:29 GMT

#57

I hope you and Chill discuss this on the next episode of Weapon of Choice. I think it'd bring a lot of much needed discussion around the issue and make people think a lot more critically when they are crying ESPORTS to the heavens.

utyske

Denmark185 Posts

May 27 2011 17:29 GMT

#58

You're a lucky man, Wheat, no doubt.

I really enjoy your work, and can totally understand having to work a job, you're not really happy with. I do a little podcasting myself, and would probably love doing that more, but it's kinda hard fitting all the pieces together, even if you're single, as I am - I can't imagine having a family.

Cheers to you man, love your work, and I hope that you end up doing this full time.

Jiddra

Sweden2685 Posts

May 27 2011 17:30 GMT

#59

It's sad that we don't get to see you at Dreamhack, would love to hear you and 2gd cast the quake tournament

No fluff!

I hope you can return 100% to esports, keep up the good work!

Kralic

Canada2628 Posts

May 27 2011 17:32 GMT

#60

Very nice read DJ, nice to know that some of the top casters have to sustain a full time job. Brings the reality to light that at the current state of esports you cannot solely rely on it for a living. Perhaps if you didn't have a family to help support it would be a different story. Either way the amount of content you bring to the table helps me eat up the time I am not at work. I hope everything goes well for you now and in the future.

Cheers