The CCNA Changed My Life!
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- The CCNA Changed My Life!
In this video, we discuss how the CCNA certification changed my life. I went from being stuck at a helpdesk job to rebooting my career with a six-month boot camp that covered IT skills like Microsoft servers and security. I learned so much and eventually got my own home lab to practice. If you're thinking of following this path, I've got tips on using study materials, starting small, and putting in the work to transform your career.
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computers and technology changed my life to the good
but college wasted my time forgood . I wish I knew about these certifications when I was younger
dont we all dude, We just gotta keep moving
Same here.
God bless you brother I am studying to take it and I am sending your video to my daughter to motivate her to do the same. Thanks bro Adam Byrd of Facebook
I disagree. What you didn't know then will benefit you now, things happen for a reason and nothing gets done without the timing being right.
Tell me more I’m starting off. I am in between my next quarter of school so right now I’m taking Google search so I just not go to school and just do my Google search
IT is a golden hustle man. Just got my A+. Going to finish Net+ in about two months, then I may get into CCNA.
Hows it coming man just started my A+
@CalmBurrito987 anyway to get that quicker without bullshit online schooling??
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Bro get your Sec+ and enter Cyber Security. Min salary is 80k most find jobs that pay 100k.
Nice to see another brother who see's the light in the I.T. thing ..... #Salute
Looking back at this .... If you were in the Air Force and ever stationed in MS or GA. I think I know you ... but maybe not ....
2000-2001 Biloxi, Keesler to be exact .... You're probably going to say Yep ....
Yep... Me too.... That's amazing! I ended up at Warner-Robins, before coming home to NC.
Qharisma Ah! Lovin this
I had a little spark of happiness when I saw other black people at Cisco Live. Fortunately at my company we have several black network engineers but we were definitely short on numbers at Live. Lets get it in.
Damn same boat bruh, hella inspirational. Thanks, studying for my CCNA right now.
Great video man. Completely relatable to myself. I left the Army, needed a job, joined a IT helpdesk then moved into a networks role. I've been studying now for just short of a year and failed my icnd2 exam on Monday with a score of 735. Dissapointed but you're right in what you've said, if it was easy everyone would have it. Made my day this video, cheers!
This felt so natural and laid back. Great video, very encouraging.
so glad you passed the CCNA and CCNP certifications!!! great, you've inspired me to go ahead and get those!!!
Man, you are cool, straight, and honest. Thank you for all those great suggestions! You have a lot of knowledge and experience that can be shared. Thank you in advance!
Thanks Bro. I hope your continue to progress . A great witness!!!
Awesome video! I have been in IT for about 11 years now, and have pretty much maxed out as a tier 2 technical specialist. The past week I have started my studying journey for the CCNA. Thanks for the inspiration, and keep up the good work.
I appreciate this candid conversation. This really helps. I look forward to watching more of your content as you continue in your IT career.
Thanks, I needed that... After six years in the military and a top secret clearance as a Human Resources Information Systems Analyst I came into the real world as a installation tech for time Warner. I went the business route and did Mortgages, Insurance Agent, Financial Consultant and now I find myself full circle studying for the CCNA. I appreciate seeing positive brothers sharing information like this. I'm taking the two test route like your other video mentioned. **Thanks**
I'm glad I found your channel, definitely needed the little extra boost of morale to push forward with ICND1 and 2!
Thnx for serving and making these vids!! I'm using my VR&E to change careers to IT... Excited to see more vids!!
You are an inspiration brotha thank you as a young black man you have helped me see the light at the end of the tunnel.
4 in the morning, working 3rd shift, can’t wait to level up- Thank you bruh!
Putting in work! It’s going to happen for you. Keep pushing family!
Du'An Lightfoot - I passed my CCENT today with the use of your videos! Thank you for the vids, great motivation for ppl of color and all backgrounds - thanks again homie!
Du'An Lightfoot I finally have my CCNA! Thanks for the motivation! I passed the ICND2 last Saturday 878/1000
Dropping knowledge as always brotha, great video !
I'm wrapping up my time in the military and have been working towards getting my A+ just to try and get my feet wet in the IT world. Your videos have really helped me push forward and study as much as possible in order to get the ball rolling on all of this.
congrats dude, been in IT over 20 yrs and love to hear the success stories...keep it up...
Thanks Jeff. I am sure its been an exciting 20 years? IT is full of surprises and changes.
Great Video, Du'An..thank you for sharing your story!!
Appreciate you sharing your experience. I was barely introduced to this & excited to get into this
This really hit home. Thanks for posting. Now it time to get back to the books.
This video is still relevant! I love this! I'll keep you posted on my success. Thanks for sharing
Du'An Lightfoot I sure will! ☺
What are you doing now?
Thanks for sharing your story and making this video !
Thanks for this video, Du'An - I think it's valuable. Good luck on your career!
You are welcome James and thank you.
Love this channel man, keep it up! I feel like we share a similar mindset in that money is a motivator, but an even bigger motivator is learning and sharing that knowledge.
Thanks brother will helped me out tremendously. From Kansas City myself and appreciate the help you are putting out there for many of us with my questions and insecurities. 100
Thank you for the inspiration brother. I immediately subbed and I will be checking out your posts. I'm looking to get into a career in the tech world and as overwhelming the subject is for a person like myself with zero IT experience, seeing relatable folks like yourself is extremely motivational. Shout out from Oakland, Cali... ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Thank you posting it, It really inspire me !!!
Hey man, this has been very inspiring to me! Wish you the best in your career.
Good info for folks looking to break into something new. I have been on the fence with creating a channel as well. I am also ex Army and spent 7 years at a very interesting helpdesk/ISP working for military as a contractor. The level of troubleshooting I learned there was golden. Thanks for sharing the knowledge fam!
Du'an, Thanks for the inspiration. Thank you for your military service! I'm prior Army, comms & electronics repair. I can do this! At 47 I was a 16 yr. Century Link outside tech and had a career ending, on the job injury. Its been a tough 5 years since being broken off! I really believe this will be my ticket back into a sustainable career. Again, thanks for the inspiration and the tips.
You're the shit. Keep being you. Needless to say, I subbed. You've helped many ppl with ur channel, even if they don't sub or comment.
Definitely going to be referring to your videos often. I'm an IT in the USCG (Net+ and Sec+) and WILL be obtaining my CCNA by end of June 2018. Appreciate your insight man! Keep increasing your value out here people!
Your videos are very inspiring. Keep them coming. I can relate to your story, from doing music previously to working at the service desk. Currently self-studying for ICND1 and this helped a lot.
You are the man and are a major inspiration for me. Thank you.
Thank you very much. I'm from Italy. Great Video! You're right: money is important of course but knowledge comes first.
your video really motivated me even more to do my CCNA switching and routing. Much love from London (England)
Dope to hear fam! Thanks and S/O to London.
Thank you bro. I am now working as a service desk analyst and this video has been very inspirational.
Having spent 2,5 years (half the time you did lol) as a help desk / service desk 1st level support for huge international american company and being on the brink of entering my 30's in the last years I spent a lot of the time riding down the subway, by reading Troy McMillan's CCENT literature. Your videos inspire people. I don't know if I'll make it in Cisco or reach CCNA but its a career path which gives hope and purpose to many people. That being said, thanks for the videos. Now I only wish I had a home lab like you. Topman!
Good looking out bro, u just gave me a fresh boost of motivation. Studying for CCNA atm, hope to get it in the next few month before my 21st birthday!
Same situation and age bro
I.T. Career Questions brought me here..Great intro into this arena.. Thanks! Just subscribed!!
Ur a good human being and a great motivator. Bless!!
Keep it up, brother!!! Much love from your African brother here! I am watching your video from China :)
I am pursuing the CCNA certification as well, and your video is very encouraging!
+Jose Soarezz Thanks man and wow China!! Much love and good luck Jose.
Man, this video just made my day - scratch that - month.
I am 22 and half way through my CCNA 1 and I love it. This video is awesome thanks for the upload
+AJ SplitZ Awesome! Thanks for viewing. If there’s anything I can do to help please let me know.
appreciate the motivation man at my help desk job now ..ill be back to say i passed this exam ! on everything !
I passed my Ccna bro,🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Thank you for your motivation bro…Salute
Congrats family! Keep it up!
Bro, nice home lab. I wish you could upload more shorts or videos. Congrats on the CCNA!
Thanks bro you are very inspiring, im currently working on getting a ccna and your advice is very helpful
Man....help desk for 3 years here. Hate that shit. I took ICND 1&2 and came up a little short. Gonna take it again in about a month.
At this point, I just gotta tighten up on my WAN knowledge and I'll be ready for rd 2.
Study Materials: CCNA Bootcamp (Global Knowledge), Cisco Labs and Study Guide.
Richard Peterson ya man 3 years on the HD...I can imagine...
Did you make it? Good luck
Is help desk really that bad
Its been 3 years! Did you eventually pass it?
Nice video man. Just started my training with INE. Looking forward to making this next step.
Appreciate it man. I'm sure I'll have some questions on future videos of yours.
God bless you, brother. This video was exceptionally inspirational.
+Sho Thank you. God Bless you also.
oooh man thank you so much
i hope that CCNA will change my life also
know and i feel every word that you are saying
because i faced many things like you
even i am not in The USA but i had the same life that you had
Your goal- to help people. You just helped me! Thanks.
Yeah man. You made a difference.
I will let you know when I pass.
Motivational man, yo boi from IOC 👍🏽
Well Said. I'm going for mine after a 10 year chill status. Thank you for this content young Sir. Yes Todd L is my dude.
Your words, your thoughts, very encouraged me keep to stayed in CCNA class, and I'm 49 years old, sometimes I think I'm very old to get into networking, I just started taking CCNA class, it is very hard class, I got layoff from my work because my company moved out of state and I looked something else in high demand out there now, so I picked CCNA program. Thank you, it is inspirational.
Thank you brother
How expensive is having such kind of dream on you like helping and learning not just money
Keep up
Thanks for sharing. Very encouraging!
I'm 43, and have been doing deskside/helpdesk support for 11 years and I am just tired of it. I took CCNA classes from 2000-03, and finished. Had my cert voucher and never took the test. Now I regret it. I am tired of the same old same old doing deskside support. I want more. So I am going to give CCNA another shot, a lot has changed since 2003. It's gonna be rough.
thanks for the encouragement Du'An. Im starting to learn this at 40 ! lol hope it's not too late
bravo!
I'm 48 and still interested. Mind is inquisitive by nature it wants to learn.
"You're gonna make it; it's not too late..." ~ Damian Marley
I started at 42. You're good :)
T. Mahl this encourages me. I'm 38 and I'm just now learning.
Great video my brutha 💪🏾💪🏾💯
Good Video man it inspired me, even if I'm not gonna to make the Cisco certifications since it's not my biggest interest but I'm working towards to get maybe by end of this year or early next year a OSCP .
+Du'An Lightfoot thanks man and you're right it's not about cert XYZ it's about what you want to do and to have goal to reach and in the best case you get something that is showing other people that you mad your way and reached that goal or in other words it's about what your're passionate about.
Thanks a lot for your sense of motivation.
Great video!!!! Thanks for sharing!
You got a sub from me, I like your enthusiasm
All the best!!
Thank you this video helped out a lot
Thank you. Your video is informational and inspiring.
Aww man a true inspiration, I just told my wife I didn't want to do this anymore. Than I saw your video..
Dope! You can do it fam. Be encouraged.
Excellent video!!!
I’m starting a 16 week training program to get my CCNA and MCSA. Thanks for this video, it’s motivating!
How did it go?
Damn bruh. that's real talk. I do appriciate real talk. Ive been in IT for over 20 years. I got moved from network to an IP based radio network, to a Mainframe. My skill set has suffered as a result of no hands on and technology passing me up.
NOW im ready and, quite frankly, eager.
Thanks for giving me some hope and focus young brotha ( you may be old but im Old as Dirt LoL)
Working on my CCNA now. I have the same book, but you definitely need more than one source of info. I also have a udemy bootcamp video program I'm using. Can't wait to get my CCNA, it will indeed open much more doors.
Thanks man, I passed my ccna on 24/08/2018. Now I am studying mcsa.
Dope! Congrats. Be sure to celebrate with the ones you love.
I will. Sorry, I just noticed that the date I wrote on my first comment is wrong it should be 24/07/2018. I would like to ask you a question, I pass the the test but I don't have any experience in this field and I don't know where to start from man. Ccna is the only cert that I have in the IT but now I am studying mcsa. By the way, I live in the UK.
Congrats
Congrats man, what do you do to stay motivated? Did you have a group study?
Did my CCNA now on MCSA too, you pass 70-740 yet? It wasnt near as hard as the CCNA yet the 741 networking exam hasn't motivated me for some reason.
I was young, made mistakes. I've worked hard ever since (roughly 10 years) and have put myself in a position where I can finally make moves for myself and my family. I just passed the CCENT in December (started mid-october) and just scheduled ICND2 for the last day (feb 23). I'm confident I'll pass and with my experience I know good things are coming. Just want to put good energy out there for anyone currently in the struggle.
I admire you. I came across your channel on a humble and I’m glad I did. I will be in touch.. I want my CCNA I’m just trying to figure my game plan.. I’m confused on these different levels of CCNA certs
just one word, THANK YOU❤
Hey there Du'An. Im a KC native also and obtained my ccent and working on getting my ccna. I looked at centriq but decided to attend the cisco network academy at mcckc. Currently working as a data center tech . Unfortunately the data center will be closing next year but hopefully my ccna can get me into the door somewhere else. Good luck to you and good inspirational video!!
Du'An Lightfoot you are correct He definitely does!!
just grabbed a new sub, one you got me from your other video about CCNA certification that youtube sent me to. then i came to your page and watching your home page video. You had me sold when you mentioned Kansas City! (i work downtown and live in LS) and literally just bought the CCNA certification through icollege after seeing it was on sale from tech deals through android authority... Not to mention you said Centriq, i have a cousin that went there and got his Comptia A+ certification through them. You got me sold. I definitely had to subscribe. if i have any questions along the way i might reach out to you haha. Thanks for the information and the video. Man even youtube is making kansas city smaller than what it is. Best of luck on your journey brotha!
Thanks fam! Feel free to hit me up.
will do! thanks again
I hear where you are coming from. I've worked helpdesk and desktop support for 5-6 years, and felt like it was going nowhere. Then I got a job doing layer 1 refreshes for a cisco gold partner at a hospital contract. After doing that for a year, I'm studying for CCNA, and so far, I have done most of the stuff already! Looking for hardware to build a home lab.
Thank you. You don't know me but thank you. Right message at the right time.
+Du'An Lightfoot I can't tell you how glad I am that I found your videos. It's great to hear from someone real life who's doing what I want to do. I have loved IT since I was little and the TRS-80 was the best on the block. Finally at 48 the time has come to make a career out of what I love. My goal is to get into a position to find a good IT job in the beginning of 2019 and then gain experience and more certifications so I can get a great IT job in the future. I really want to work in Networking and have no doubt I can get a CCNA later this year. Any suggestions of any other certs/training I can accomplish in the next year to get me ready for that entry level IT job this time next year? Thanks again for everthing you do and for your service to our great country!
This is soooooo crazy I'm in Centriq right now and I'm trying to find my way through and seeing video and you mentioning Centriq what are the odds??? The signs are there man
Great advice man !!
This video radiates positive vibes and vision.
I was debating between the Network+ and the CCNA, your video made my decision a lot easier. I will be going for the CCNA...thanks!!!
Any updates on your CCNA?
Thanks for the video!
I'm starting my journey to becoming CCNA certified. What motivated you to stay consistent with your studying? That is a major hurdle for me now having a family. Again, Thanks for the videos they are really inspiring!
Well done and well said!
Good shit bro you god me inspired. I was in the military with a clearance but most employers dont give AF.
Good vid man!!!
im already studying for my security + cert but ill look into getting my CCNA after
Congrats on passing the CCNA. Good luck on your future endeavors. Now, get to work on that CCNP.
My man! You passed all three tests in under a month?
***** I subscribed back. It's good seeing like minded people. I have been working in NOC's for far too long not to be at least a CCNP. Hit me up on IG at antwrig under score Fitboss. I am active there.
Thanks for the motivation!
***** Antonio Wright on LinkedIn. Regarding Twitter, I just can't get into it. Hah.
Enjoyed your video, Still in KC? Im actually from Kansas. Ive only been working help desk for 5 months but I know I dont want to stay there. Going straight for my CCNA right away. Sub'd, I'll be looking forward to any future content.
Thank you for your service.
Brilliant and beautiful video! Keep up the good work, I'm a fan!
I got my CCNA 10yrs ago from studying a book and with 0mins of hands on. Now I am studying for Cisco Networking Academy starting in August. I really know nothing but videos and 6.3 Packet Tracer! Why does it expire every two years?
Changing Technology - evolution!
Try to get a lab and put your hands on stuff, theoretical studies are very informative but with some lab equipment you get to understand and work on scenarios.
There’s a bunch of them on eBay ($200 to 400).
Good luck
i was a warehouse associate working for Lazada in Singapore,
as the epidemic broke up, I lost my job and my country lockdown since then,
I lost my only income , literally, I could do nothing with it .
from the time on,
after doing a lot of researches,
attended different IT courses from different platforms in order to catch up the most current IT technologies those used in the industry.
after going through all those courses,
I have made my final dicision,
to be a network engineer .
Nights and days,
sometime 12 hours a days,
chasing CCNA materils provided by the experts in the field ,
now, my exam finally scheduled ,
next week might be my big day.
Hope CCNA could change my life just like what it did to change yours .
Even though i have this video 4 years after ,
but im glad to have watched it , encourageing .
Thank you
It can! Stick with it!
Great Video Man..... I have been in IT 10 15 years working on all technology , vmware, Active directory , Citrix , networking but now am going deep into networking , Taking my CCNA end of Oct 2017, then going to CCNP and then CCIE , that's the dream.......
Awesome. Good luck Naeem.
Thanks bro. You are an inspiration! I am a computer technician with a Bachelor's degree in computer science and 3 years of tech support experience making no more than $14.00 an hr. For me it has simply not been cutting it. I hope with CCNA, A+, and Net + certifications i can move on to better job opportunities.
Perfectly defined: Get out of the comfort zone. Get into the real networks...very motivational
that's so true bro, CCNA changed my life too. Now CCNP would change my life! go go go
+Du'An Lightfoot yes bro, I have a daily study plan until February with rest times between each test. It's so hard but I know It would change my Life again