At the end of that year, while also studying part-time in Electronic Engineering at TAFE SA, Quenton was hired short-term to work for a small company that specialized in API Database migration, redesign and integration (generally migrating old databases into new accounting software).

After this job fell through, Quenton had both gained much needed valuable work experience (as it was his first job), and knowledge on his capabilities and shortcomings.

(Note: Quenton has had Chronic Fatigue since 2009 and doesn't have the energy most people do; and requires sleep 3-4 times a day in order to be at his best when awake, which is not exactly practical for a 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM job).

After this experience, Quenton realized his health wasn't going to allow him to work full-time in the conventional sense (at least until some cure was found) and began looking for ways to work part-time instead.

As Coronavirus hit the world and lockdowns commenced, Quenton decided to use this time to postpone looking for work; and instead work on his own idea: Learn how to make a video game and at the very least, get something large and meaningful to put on his Resume.

Quenton had always been aware of something called the NEIS Program (New Enterprise Incentive Scheme) and felt that once he needed to start looking for work again, making his own business, being his own boss, being able to work from home and whenever he had energy (given his Chronic Fatigue condition) was an idea that made a lot of sense.

Combining all he learned from Tertiary Studies, his conversation with a football friend that was wronged by a web developer who abandoned their job, his experience with his first software development job and his love of problem solving, he decided to join the NEIS Program and make a web and software development business: HQ Coding.