Can confirm about moving up. I started as a outbound DSL cold call salesmen to network engineer in 8 years with att. $11/hr to $56/hr.. 5 state moves, and always willing to do any extra projects even if it wasn't always monetarily beneficial it gave me exposure and experince. I'm 28 and never even attended any college, living the dream. Just gotta out in effort
It's the same way in Florida, I'm currently in a 2 year degree program at a Florida community college and the college i attend has an agreement with all of the Florida Universities to accept all 60 credits.
For me in the uk most of the jobs are in london but the rent there is about 8 - £10k a year + a long and more expensive commute. I'm living with my parents currently still rent free. I graduated a year ago from a 3 year bachelor's degree with a third in maths/physics since then I have worked my first 2 temporary jobs close to home for a few months warehousing and data entry volunteered for a brief period at a charity before the 2nd of my temporary positions started. obtained my driver's license became microsoft office specialist Excel 2013 certified, learnt VBA, python, html and have created a few example programs and website template using them. I have applied to jobs where Id have to move or have an hour+ commute but the vast majority of my applications have been in the towns and 1 small city close to home.
Eli, you are certainly right about most tech schools. Many are dangerous debt traps. Intern, self study and TH-cam tutorials are better in many cases. It is an opportunity to learn what they public wants.. Recently, I took a CRT TV to the dump for reclamation. They charged me $10. While placing my old TV in a container headed for Asian reclamation, I notice all these orphaned computers. I quietly loaded 4 of them into the back of my car and drove off. It turned out than not one was actually broken. People throw them away over trivial OS problems or at worst, a bad drive. Maybe some were a little dated but so what? They are high tech guinea pigs for the novice to experiment on. Fix them and sell or give them to under privileged kids.
I ran into this issue at Miller Motte College. I would like to distress a warning to all of you. DO NOT GO TO MMC!!! They are not SACS accredited, not only would you not get a real degree, but they also denied my request for my voucher that I studied for to take my certification exam!
I literally have the same exact speech impediment as you on "ch" and hard "g" and "j" sounds. Do you find yourself choosing words in sentences to avoid those sounds? Ex: saying "photo" instead of "picture"
+thebigtortuga no... I always mean to choose my words better, but never end up doing it. I gave some real thought to going to a speech therapist, but frankly you guys don't seem to mind too much...
+Eli the Computer Guy Live You're still articulate and seem to get the job done well enough. Don't sweat it. Most people don't really pay enough attention to that sort of thing to even care about it. Although... I can sell you a 4 year degree that should not only help you fix it, but that will get you an amazing job! j/k LMAO :) (I hate the education system too.) My CDL has earned me about $500,000 more than my college degree has. I mainly got the degree because I felt like it, but it really wasn't anything I felt like I 'needed'.
I just find it funny how he says "in-DUH-stry," as I'm used to saying and hearing that word with a perfectly silent "u" and an accent on the first syllable.
Failed Normal Redux It's such a small thing that after watching dozens of your videos I only recently noticed it. You have one of the best speaking voices on TH-cam. So many people have high pitched voices that are so treble proned it hurts my ears.
+MsLia32 yes, but also the kind of jobs. In a small town, the average IT job will be replacing toner cartridges and telling people to reboot their PC (and yes, I come from a small town). Not something that's career enhancing... 70.000 people, there should be better jobs out there and depending on your specialisation possibly not much competition. Half a million, better yet. Much more than that you get outcompeted by fresh grads with way higher qualifications than you who're desperate for a job to pay off those student loans as well as all the tens of thousands who flocked to those cities in the past and lost their jobs in the big crash of 2008-2012 and have been job hopping ever since hoping to get back to the kind of income level and job they had back then.
Agree with you , I also talked the same issue in my Video "How to Become a Web Developer or Software Engineer Without Going to College l"
Can confirm about moving up. I started as a outbound DSL cold call salesmen to network engineer in 8 years with att. $11/hr to $56/hr.. 5 state moves, and always willing to do any extra projects even if it wasn't always monetarily beneficial it gave me exposure and experince. I'm 28 and never even attended any college, living the dream. Just gotta out in effort
It's the same way in Florida, I'm currently in a 2 year degree program at a Florida community college and the college i attend has an agreement with all of the Florida Universities to accept all 60 credits.
For me in the uk most of the jobs are in london but the rent there is about 8 - £10k a year + a long and more expensive commute. I'm living with my parents currently still rent free. I graduated a year ago from a 3 year bachelor's degree with a third in maths/physics since then I have worked my first 2 temporary jobs close to home for a few months warehousing and data entry volunteered for a brief period at a charity before the 2nd of my temporary positions started. obtained my driver's license became microsoft office specialist Excel 2013 certified, learnt VBA, python, html and have created a few example programs and website template using them.
I have applied to jobs where Id have to move or have an hour+ commute but the vast majority of my applications have been in the towns and 1 small city close to home.
Eli, you are certainly right about most tech schools. Many are dangerous debt traps.
Intern, self study and TH-cam tutorials are better in many cases. It is an opportunity to learn what they public wants..
Recently, I took a CRT TV to the dump for reclamation. They charged me $10. While placing my old TV in a container headed for Asian reclamation, I notice all these orphaned computers. I quietly loaded 4 of them into the back of my car and drove off.
It turned out than not one was actually broken. People throw them away over trivial OS problems or at worst, a bad drive. Maybe some were a little dated but so what?
They are high tech guinea pigs for the novice to experiment on. Fix them and sell or give them to under privileged kids.
Go south for yobs. Im going to Kentucky, ive seen jobs posted that only require a high school diploma, but pay as much as a bachelors here.
Not necessarily, unless you're wanting to. I prefer to live off the grid soon on Alaska since we all will be living that way soon.
Don't promise me paradise and not deliver.
How soon
You are so cool man. Thanks a lot!
I ran into this issue at Miller Motte College. I would like to distress a warning to all of you. DO NOT GO TO MMC!!! They are not SACS accredited, not only would you not get a real degree, but they also denied my request for my voucher that I studied for to take my certification exam!
Anyone know what mayor he has?
I literally have the same exact speech impediment as you on "ch" and hard "g" and "j" sounds. Do you find yourself choosing words in sentences to avoid those sounds? Ex: saying "photo" instead of "picture"
+thebigtortuga no... I always mean to choose my words better, but never end up doing it. I gave some real thought to going to a speech therapist, but frankly you guys don't seem to mind too much...
+Eli the Computer Guy Live You're still articulate and seem to get the job done well enough. Don't sweat it. Most people don't really pay enough attention to that sort of thing to even care about it. Although... I can sell you a 4 year degree that should not only help you fix it, but that will get you an amazing job! j/k LMAO :) (I hate the education system too.)
My CDL has earned me about $500,000 more than my college degree has. I mainly got the degree because I felt like it, but it really wasn't anything I felt like I 'needed'.
+Eli the Computer Guy Live Honestly, I didn't even notice, you're just a really good speaker in my opinion.
I just find it funny how he says "in-DUH-stry," as I'm used to saying and hearing that word with a perfectly silent "u" and an accent on the first syllable.
Failed Normal Redux It's such a small thing that after watching dozens of your videos I only recently noticed it. You have one of the best speaking voices on TH-cam. So many people have high pitched voices that are so treble proned it hurts my ears.
Great advice
His comparison is true.
He is wrong about this though. It's not the number of jobs, it's the number of applicants per job.
+MsLia32 yes, but also the kind of jobs.
In a small town, the average IT job will be replacing toner cartridges and telling people to reboot their PC (and yes, I come from a small town).
Not something that's career enhancing...
70.000 people, there should be better jobs out there and depending on your specialisation possibly not much competition.
Half a million, better yet. Much more than that you get outcompeted by fresh grads with way higher qualifications than you who're desperate for a job to pay off those student loans as well as all the tens of thousands who flocked to those cities in the past and lost their jobs in the big crash of 2008-2012 and have been job hopping ever since hoping to get back to the kind of income level and job they had back then.
@@jwenting 70k/people is a big town? Lol
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