Money Mindset as a Tech Professional
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- In the modern world money has come to be seen as something immoral, and financial success as proof that someone is dishonest. The problem is that in the tech world you need money to do anything. Even if you choose to deploy open source software you still need to buy servers, switches and routers.
I don't know why are you all hating him, hes the only guy on youtube who tells the truth to your face. Deal with it.
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that's massive, man, I'm really impressed
Hi Eli
Would you recommend the ITIL path, for gaining a better understanding on ROI, and more of the service side of things in IT etc?
Jason raymond There isn't really a path for that. You just have to master what ever your company/contract uses and make it more efficient because you've mastered it and know what corners you can cut without impacting quality. Or just made the impact of quality small enough to make it worth while.
+Jason raymond I've seen quite a few government / large corporation job postings recently where they want ITIL. If you want to work for a big organization, it's probably a good idea.
Just found these old videos and am loving them. Been an IT consultant for 18 years and your points are dead on!!!! I’ve worked for VARs, MSPs, a mega IT services company (top 3), and my own consulting firm. I’m astonished by how on-point your observations are in relation to my 18+ years of experience!!
I usually just skim over your technical videos, but will definitely be watching closer now!!
Keep up the good work Eli!!
Thanks for force feeding me that bottle full of knowledge/motivation. I needed this. Wish me luck in making changes to be successful.
That sweet fresh ass smell. You honesty is refreshing Eli.
I like these type of videos.
Thank you, Eli!
This was the perfect video for me at the perfect time.
Eli the Computer Guy this is why I love your videos. As an IT professional for 6 years now, this video is real world. I'm moving to a new job now, and what you said in this video as far as I am now (15:27) has already reinforced my decision. I am building a new CRM for a company, and they are paying me good, so what you mentioned about this I can vouch for. Anyone who reads this comment, don't think Eli is trying to make you some money-hungry piece of shit, he's trying to help you further your career because in the business world this is exactly how you have to be. The business isn't catering to your needs, you cater to their needs, and yeah you might have to replace a person with technology but as an IT pro, THAT'S YOUR JOB. Do it. Don't regret it, don't feel bad, if that person can't compete with a piece of technology, why pay for them? Morals mean nothing. Earn your money, buy yourself something nice, buy your wife something nice, buy your children presents for their birthday, take that money and enjoy it and pass it on. Don't complain about Eli being about money, because regardless if you want it to be or not, our world is about money. Money is not evil, you are not evil for going after money to support your family and life. I play guitar, if I wasn't making the money I am I wouldn't be able to afford the guitars and pianos that I want. They make me so happy, and without this money I earn, I wouldn't be able to do the things I want that make me happy outside of my work life. You live to live, not to make money. So if you complain about these videos being about money, you need to get a grip on what your life is about. Money will buy you the hobbies you have. Money will make your life easier, from every single standpoint. If you can reply to this comment with one point that says money doesn't matter and money can't fix this situation, do it. I promise you I will counter your argument with proof and evidence that money can fix the exact situation you're in right now with the society we have.
I have to admit. The first 20 or so minutes I listened to your video in the background, I thought you were a bit of a jerk. BUT, I listened to the whole video, and I have to say, you have very valid points, and an actual "in the trenches" outlook on things. +1 Subscriber.
I love the soccer analogy. It was really thought out.
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+Eli the Computer Guy
Omg, literally thank you so much for making this video. I am *tired* of explaining this to people. The whole concept of money being the prime reason. THANK YOU
I have been in the IT field for over 15 years and now pursuing my degree in Business Administration. Budgeting and HR are vital to advance
I just have to say that I love Mr. Eli. His conversations are always priceless! Thank you for doing this.
Your video has opened my eyes. I never saw money as evil, but I did not think it was necessary to live a life as an IT advisor. I now see that money is a tool that is absolutely necessary in this field. Thanks
Honestly, i am so grateful and appreciative that you don't hide your motives or any of that common TH-camr bullshit. The fact that your videos have and continue to educate me, at no cost to me, while being able to provide you with a steady income, is the IDEAL win-win situation and i couldn't ask for a better system. Keep doing what your doing as long as its profitable for you. And for the love of god don't pull your videos if one day TH-cam screws you or whatnot =P
EDIT: Appropriate i think can be swapped for "Efficient"
Ex. Having a "money doesnt matter" mindset is not an efficient way of working within this industry.
If not, appropriate works =)
First time commentor,LONG time follower.
I agree,and if we could pay for things in pb&j sandwiches....its all about the pb&j.....I am glad it's not just me.....thank you
This video was very good and specific, thank you so much for uploading this Eli! It really helped me.
Man, I just want to give you a hug! It is all about the MONEY! Money let's a person do the things in life that they enjoy - and it all cost $$!
Thank you so much Eli! You really motivate me to aim higher. I plan to make a lot of money in this field and i need people who have been in it and are realistic enough to tell the truth. The truth is people who argue with this fact argue because they are not ambitious to progress in this field, so they are satisfied with what they are earning. But then someone planning on building his/own infrastructure and company will totally agree with what you are saying and that s me. So thank You for your transparency!
Thank you for being zo clear and honest about Money.
For me the EYE OPENER was the quote that this (capitalistic) system might not be the best system, but that we are in it anyway.
As a natural health therapist I know that most genelal practioners and specialists have to little knowledge of the broad field of the so called "alternative medicine" or "additional treatments" and therefore sometimes reject it completely. I have seen some good results in the treatment of cancer (although regretfully not in all cases). So if your wife does not reacts to her present therapy, you might consider to contact alternative therapists and ask if they see other ways to succesfully treat her.
Great video Eli. I like your honesty and advise. Keep doing great videos.
Money has never been evil! It is how we use it! People who think money is evil, need reeducation !
+Robel Fesshaye People who think money is evil should just give their money to me LOL.
+Robel Fesshaye People who think money is evil should just give their money to me LOL.
I really love your videos Eli. The advice you give is great and the gems that you give should be taken seriously by everyone watching. The outdoor videos, in my opinion, are much better than the ones that are indoors...aesthetically. I had one problem with this video though. I just wanted you to move so the tree didn't look like it was growing from your head. Again, great videos and keep up the great work!
What do companies want to see when hiring? An employee that shows up to work on time, doesn't call in sick constantly, doesn't whine and cry about having to work long hours. You can have all the degrees in the world, doesn't mean you can actually do the job you are applying for. Real world experience is what is needed. Anybody can get a degree if they are given the chance, its what that person does outside of that course of material that will make or break their career. A person needs to put those skills they are learning to real world use whether it be on their own personal equipment, or getting an internship through a local business. A friend of mine is working on becoming a certified welder & diesel mechanic. He got a job at a logging company full time so in a way his job is paying for his school, but he is learning both in class and in the real world. Colleges don't teach real world, they teach out of a book full of what-ifs. Real world experience is what a company needs and wants. If you show up with a basket full of certificates and degrees they will likely pass over you because they'll look at you as being over-qualified...Micron did that to me. They will also pass over you because you could be a liability to the company in the way of you are over-qualified due to your skills, you work for xx company for a while, then another company offers you more money so you quit xx company and move on creating a hardship for xx company now because they spent time training you to their standards and now you up and leave.
I find it funny that people whine when you tell them you charge $60 an hour for a service call. Well I can fix it myself, I can do this, that or the other. A few days later they're calling you back asking for an appointment because they had no clue how to fix the problem, and on top of that they broke whatever it was worse because they were screwing around with it trying to fix it. Now they're even more mad because instead of $60 and what would have been a simple repair now cost them several hundred dollars in parts they damaged due to their lack of knowledge of that product and their lack of ability to properly disassemble and repair the product.
Another thing too, I've seen companies sending their service techs out on calls all over the place. They don't stop and look at the locations they are sending their techs so their poor tech is going from one side of town to the other, back across town several times a day rather than looking at the calls, and planning a route. Huge time saver is having an office manager that can plan a route on the fly, move calls around when needed, reschedule customers who had to leave and won't be home or work.
My boss has been talking about closing down our shop and just doing service work, and having me do all the phone & scheduling work from home. I thought at first that would be horrible for me because I'd lose pay and hours. In the end when I stop and think about it, it would save me money, I wouldn't have to leave home and drive to work, I could work whatever hours I wanted because I could work wherever I want and I'd have the phone with me and computer no matter where. Overall many of our calls are people calling wanting free advice...don't need a 10,000 square foot building for that LOL. About 95% of our calls are for service work, 5% for sales. We do appliance service/repair/sales/service/installation. The place to be is in the service/repair industry there's always something breaking. Economy goes downhill and sales goes downhill as well but people want their stuff fixed because they gotta have it.
One can also have connections at the right places
This video needs to be updated! Think about it!Great Job, thankiu
Going to ITT-Tech and you helped me finish before I finished. Class is flying by and even getting dull cause I know it now. Thanks soo much bro
Changed my viewpoint about Money....
Making money is good thing but without losing moral....
IT is mostly about cost and making sure things run smoothly on the technological side. Technology isn't just part of business. It is the business. It takes skill to run and sustain business. The term "Technology" doesn't mean electronics. It means it's a combination of methods, techniques and processes for either products, services or general purpose to specific fields.
This is very educational and motivational! Thanks.
That's the truth in every phase of life (in business, relationships, health, etc.)... give and take. In business giving is cost and take is profit. In romantic relationships you "give" your better act to get the girl ("profit"). And so on.
I did that ... i wrote a web app that let customer service or customers to answer questions in 20 minutes vs a 3 week data manager task.
Money is good--it pays for things. That's why college wants my money.
Thanks so much Eli, you truly are a valuable resource to us techies :) Love your work.
Finally Eli got the point of one of my comments on a previous video on Silicon Trailer.
Eli - if you would like to understand more on money, i would recommend to you the documentary Zeitgeist: Addendum!
Money is a nothing thing, the resources are the ones that are important for us to survive and progress!!!
YAAAAAAAAWN. Get a job.
Can't find one these days, the global monetary system is collapsing! Everything is a big joke. Watch Zeitgeist:Addendum as I suggested above :)
meksaldi i will look it up
a Haraldh Ok, i would suggest it to everyone that has seen this Eli video here , to better understand how the Monetary System works and why Eli says what he says! I would recommend it to Eli also!
meksaldi So...you believe 100% in a youtube video made by one dude. You have two options: 1. Take it seriously and watch other conspiracy videos all day. 2. Get a job, earn money, do stuff that makes you happy (by spending money)
Additionally, it's the client's choice if they purchase your service for the stated $1000. They are not being forced to against their will. If they do, in fact, make the purchase, they perceive your product as having a value greater than the set $1000 and see the transaction as a deal on their side of the bargain. More people need to understand basic economics.
I came for the problem I was trying to fix, and stayed for the life lessons and philosophy you share... Thanks a lot :)
Money for me, is a way for people to share their services and products by freely taking part in that exchange.
People who say "I don't care about money", usually have some scheme made up in order for other people to provide them with services and products for free. This is what led to communism back in the days, and this is what leads people to communism today. What that leads to is more and more people in society who's not willing to pay for the rest of the people, because most of their own work/payout gets stolen from them.
Fully agree with you. Very good monologue, I really liked it. Thank you
Money is not the root of all Evil.. the lack of money is.. I am very happy when I got out of jail to choose IT.. long story short for the passed 15 years I been a software engineer using Microsoft Technologies
Some awesome classic Eli. Something about this that really got me motivated.
Do what it takes to make the most money possible so at some point you can stop or slow down and take a lot of time to do the things you enjoy like traveling around in the silicon trailer.
Always look forward to Eli's videos.
Eli is being honest and that's what he should be. Or do you want him to say what everybody likes to hear?
Isn't it funny how money talk comes back down to the same logic for survival of the fittest.
I'm in it for the money.
Teach me from zero experience to 6 figure salary.
I'm calling you the tech Jesus. Everything you said in the video makes perfect sense, I wish there was a way to shove this into the heads of undergrads uni students here.
Money is a resource. Without money you can't do what you want to do in the scale you want to do it. Money = growth, growth = visibility and visibility allows you to do more of what you love to do. Stop being naive people, this is the world we live in.
Hmmm. From the sounds of it seems like IT has more demand than programming? Im interested in Coding honestly but i DO care about money. Is there good money in coding too?
Has this guy ever had an unexpressed thought... just wondering...
I just realized that Eli has some the same speaking patterns as Edward Snowden.
I love to watch all your videos, thanks a lot!
Isn't suburban and urban the same thing? Should be rural?
The only people who complain about money being evil are people who don’t have enough of it and are bitter usually. I know because I used to be like that
Great video Eli love this content
When it comes to self investment in the form of education there's an autodidact dilemma for some people in the form that such courses are inefficient or not in depth enough compared to highly developed methods of self learning. For the end goal of education they're a poor investment. Fortunately, if you can land the interview you should be able to communicate such a thing well enough to mitigate how much the lack of alphabet soup after your name may impact you.
I listen to your videos in 1.5 or 2x so I can listen to more of them
Its time to change your name.
Eli the awesome guy
Hi Eli
Where's your yacht dood!
Glad you-re still doing the videos pal
my dream is to be an epic coder as well as an awesome 3d animator and i want to be able to put together my own desktops etc. i want to code several languages at least. im so young i must push and push and push forever until these r done
My Dad says teaching the elderly people how to use PCs and tablets/phones is a business model...
Thank you very mutch
Couldn't agree more.
I needed this video, great advice. Thanks!
I would be more comfortable paying the fee asked to someone that offered to solve my problem than someone that has some type of paper and feels entitled to charge a high rate because of it.
People are trapped in prisons of their own design, for some reason they rather complain than ask for a raise or invest in themselves.
By the way, would it be possible to tell me the company's address which is hiring PHP interns in Baltimore?
Eli -- you put out all those awesome videos on networking FOR FREE. And I thank you -- learned a lot -- but not enough. I'm more confused than ever. Are you anywhere near Houston??? I got this idea of kidnapping you and forcing you to set up security cameras and ftp servers for me in exchange for your freedom. ;-) But if that doesn't happen I'll keep re-watching your videos until it starts to make sense to me. I hope you make tons of money.
I've only heard one person say what money really is and get it right.
Thank you Eli
Fantastic Eli Top Content> i have give a More a way , Its sales your self first.I do not want that system?
This one of Eli's good video again..it's true.
I'v been in the IT for a year now. I'm working as network and sys admin job in big corporate company. The pay month is more then good enough for 25y person. But you know what? If you are doing this only for the money, then... really I'm sad for you. That is why I'm going to leave my position and head up for electronic/embedded software engineer. Because you should try every possibility in life and find what is most interesting for you. If you only follow up the river of money you will end up doing something you dislike.
Vandwo IT for a year and you're a Sysadmin? I'm calling bollocks.
Ken R Yeah I call crap on that too. As someone who has been in "IT" professionally for 4 years and only recently got into an entry level Sysadmin position myself, I can say they are either the luckiest SOB on earth or their company is calling the position something it's not. Don't want to be a troll, but I find the idea of a 25 year old sysadmin with only 1 year of IT experience kinda funny.
well I'm network technician from 2011. I worked while I pushed my bachelor telecommunication engineer degree so I can pay the bills. I have some experience with asterisk telephone networks, have CCNA certificated, managed few websites for customers running on centos (apache v2 http serv), worked on few single mode optical city connections (small city bone network that were included in the company ospf routing network area). Installed IP cameras with administration servers, some other projects with adsl2+ equipment. Some radio rellay networks for ppp wireless access. From a year I'm low entry system admin dealing mostly with our local site DC controller. Mostly administrative job, creating new users and pc in the OU's for our new employees. Monitoring the network, printers, pc and security card system. I guess the thing I'm working now is so called IT job ?
everything you spoke was very True
Thank you.
Brlliant Advice Eli
Information technology for fun and profit :D
I am wondering if Eli even remotely enjoys making TH-cam anymore... or if it is all about money money money.
you rock. thanks man
So wtf are you meant to do in 2 years while learning a language? Also, not everyone can be bothered to switch fields.
Hey do you have a list of all your favorite softwares? If you do, then this comment is now meaningless but if you don't then please make an awesome software video. list your top ten, list what they should do, list how to install blah blah. thx!
Bonus points if you can count how many times he has said the word "money" this video.
+Jeff Savage Show me the check of money.
+Aurelian Spodarec what?
Jeff Savage Money, and ill tell you how many words 'money' he said. Otherwise the bonus will be worthless.
Quit wasting my time... You know the bonus points thing is just a saying. Idk where you think you got the idea that I'm going to pay you to count how many times he said money, that isn't what I said.
Jeff Savage LOL
Wow...........
Eli is on some serious uppers and I dont think its coffee
The free market is the most efficient system. The biggest problems critics have with the "free market" are those created by governments.. The only reason our current system is upheld is because there is still some freedom of trade there despite the Fed Reserve and Governments meddling. God(spaghetti monster) bless free trade. As you said money is not evil.. The quote isn't "Money is the root of all evil" but "the love of money is the root of all evil" When you love money i.e. power more than other things you end up with central bankers and the US government
jadeaube again... You asked for a functioning alternative solution..... Our economies in the West aren't even close to being an actual free market. You can't have a free market when there is a gun-barrel monopoly on currencies(i.e. Fed Reserve) Money isnt free, market isnt free.
You are way cool.
OMG I GAVE BEEN WATCHING THE SUN GO DOWN TOOO!!! XDDDDDDD
Spaghetti monster 😂
what is NBA?
MBA, Master of Business Administration.
Eli i hate to pick on your urban kids suburban kids analogy, but most of the successful athletes in the NFL, NBA, and Soccer come from urban areas. They work hard and play the game well even though they may not have the advantages that suburban kids have. I'm sure you know this, but it came off bad in the video. Specifically the part where you said that urban kids parents tell their kids to just run around a lot and they get pats on the back, very bad lol
Isn't suburban and urban the same thing? Should be rural?
should be outer rural surbabn urban afluent
and no because lebron came from the hood and is better than everyone. Sure there are successful athletes that come from suburban homes but i would say that they DO NOT out number urban athletes or outperform them. What eli said was a little inconsiderate but its chill.
Helpdesk people are offended by money because it's such shit pay and requires the most human interactive (intense) work lol
eli is my bro
Eli did someone piss you off today ? so salty ! if you need explain money to someone who are old enough to worry about their career . YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME
The amount of ignorance in this comment could fill the drought in california
Brookfest 平和 money is a bitch , but money is my bitch , i am not moneys bitch .
YUS I CAN INVEST IN ME!! >:DD shmaybe a trade school for IT? I can like do some work 4 free and education idk. I know a guy that can gimme a recommendation? will dat work. o3o OR should I just shoot for my local community college in computer science or watever?
Why would I help the world and be poor ?
u a sthpecial boiii XD LAWLLL!!
Steve Jobs 1:17
LOL 200 BUCKS FOR KNOWLEDGE MIGHT AS WELL BE FREE IF ITS RIGHT!!
CLASSES IN FINANCE HERE I COME I HAVE BEEN STUDYING BUSINESS I LOVE IT I PLAY ROBLOX ITS LIKE TRAINING GROUNDS FOR A KID ON HOW TO BE RICH LOLOLOLOLO
EX-fuc****-ACTLY--24:44
"When all this was an idea that I pulled out of my ass and still had that fresh ass smell" -Eli