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[Music] ah me [Applause] [Applause] what's going on guys welcome back to network chuck um yeah what am i talking about today it's kind of obvious in the title i'm um i'm selling coffee how you guys doing today i know it's not my normal livestream time it's not monday it's wednesday i miss wednesday or i miss monday so i'm sorry uh real quick let me know if you guys can hear me and um yeah kind of frazzled i had like a bunch of meetings today i'm exhausted but anyways i'm selling coffee now i get people asking me all the time what coffee do you drink what do you recommend and um now i'll make my own and i'm telling you right now this stuff's amazing my this is what i'm drinking right now it's the ethiopian it's the best oh my gosh so i'm gonna i'm gonna take a big a big slurp sip for everyone real quick there it is um that is good i love coffee in case you don't know what's my thing with coffee i use coffee for everything it's not just gimmick on my on my channel every time i study or do anything coffee's there it's just a thing it's what i do so on the stream i'm going to talk about this coffee stuff give some coffee away and um kind of do an ama i guess it's kind of a random and hopefully it's okay i'll be honest i was a little unprepared for this because i had a bunch of meetings that i had to go through anyways so what what's my let me actually pull up on the screen here hopefully my screen thing is working it is cool this is my coffee website let's sketch this over network check coffee blah blah blah blah sport the mission you need coffee right now i should have titled the video that why didn't that title the video that i should have thought about that um i saw all kinds of stuff i highly recommend the ethiopian if i go to the coffee tab here of course there's other blends that are amazing if you're more of a dark roast i like a medium light roast best flavor but if you like pods i got pods too so whatever you want to do whatever you're feeling like i got you i got your back so anyways why am i selling coffee well it's something i've always wanted to do like one of my dreams is to start a uh a coffee shop kind of so we'll see if that happens happens one day but for now this is the next best thing selling coffee and uh yeah this is what i drink so if you ask me what i'm drinking it's network chuck coffee and you know what you should drink it too the other reason of why i'm doing this is uh you know that i quit my job about a month ago to do this youtube thing full time to teach full time on youtube and basically make courses for free and and you saw that david bomble's joining me this as well joining me in this as well can't even talk today guys come on i've been talking too much and yeah to be honest i gotta pay the bills so this is a large part of that but also i've i've been asking you guys like hey if you want to support david and i in this mission that's awesome help us help support us we have this as it which is a cool way to support us we provide a lot of free training that way but for others um maybe you need coffee a way to support me is you can buy your coffee from me and it's it's great coffee i can verify it i don't want to sell it to you guys unless i tried it so this is my first bag and i've been drinking it for the past a day and a half or so it's legit i love it so check it out let me know what you think i would love if you actually got a bag took a picture of it post it on social media you know the drill anyways that's why i'm doing it to kind of help me produce more free stuff so if you want to help me produce more free stuff on youtube which i am i'm doing the free ccna i'll be doing i guess i can tell you this yeah i'll tell you this i'll be doing hacking stuff very soon i've already been doing the ceh stuff um so i'm going through the ceh process but i'm going to be producing more hacking structured material to teach you guys some things and do you guys see the uh the interview i got to do with uh marcus hutchins i i was so happy to get on the uh on the phone with that guy if you don't know who he is he's the guy who actually stopped the wannacry virus uh while i don't know how many years ago it was i was working in i.t at that time and that virus like crippled everybody it was crazy and this is the guy who stopped it he had a whole documentary made about him he had a wired article wrote about him so he's he's a big deal so it's cool to get on the stream he's a reverse engineer uh a malware reverse engineer so he's he's legit knows what he's talking about that's a super fun stream we're actually gonna do another interview because that was mainly talking about the twitter hack which what do you guys think about that the twitter hack i i kind of made a video and i'm gonna give away some coffee here i'm gonna set up the giveaway so while i'm setting it up we're gonna talk about twitter uh we kind of i made a video right when the hat came out it was kind of nuts like it just i didn't know what was happening i'm like what hack sort of got hacked i saw bill gates posting this i'm like no way this is crazy and then elon musk and all these people i'm like these guys have i'm sure they have secure accounts like i know they do someone got in deep so at first i thought when i oh my blah blah blah on my initial video i'm gonna slow down now this coffee is getting to me i don't know how many cups in i'm in today but uh this is a lot micro panda welcome to the membership on network shop thank you for joining um anyways but yeah twitter i i dug in with uh with marcus hutchins and we talked about it and i saw the articles coming out my goodness a social engineering attack something that anybody can do and it's kind of crazy like right who's calling me right now anyways let's do a let's do a quick coffee giveaway so it's gonna be you typing the chat i hope this thing works i don't know if it's gonna work it always kind of messes me up so what i need you to chat in the chat not yet don't do it yet um i don't know if i click the button first or not i'll go and click it i'm gonna roll this now if you if you type this more than once you're ineligible so calm down one time okay one time i roll it no why is it being stupid i don't know what's happening with this i'm gonna do a quick refresh on my browser live troubleshooting don't you love it actually okay okay okay cool cool cool here we go here we go it's actually working right now i didn't say put anything in yet oh did actually did it roll it oh come on that's stupid i apologize for the shots blowing up with a bunch like hashtags it wasn't done yet people calm down [Laughter] okay okay i'm gonna do it now everyone stop stop stop i know you guys want some free coffee but you need to calm the junk down i take your questions just join the channel thank you for joining mr id career questions good to see you in here i swear if one more person pushes a hashtag i'm gonna freak out i'm gonna freak out okay okay okay i i don't know what's happening will murray stop laughing at me didn't you just pass the the encore congrats okay i it's it's it's the chat's broken i'm sorry it broke i'm getting hacked is the twitter hackle over again okay okay everyone stop doing things i'm gonna roll it now okay so it's rolling it um if you enter the keyword network chuck coffee that's what i'm looking for here it should go through and pick somebody to win i believe it's a keyword network coffee only enter at one time and hopefully this thing works i'll give away one bag of coffee and i'll do it in a different way here in a bit because this is obviously kind of stupid oh by the way while we're doing this i forgot to mention that i did go and take my um my ccnp encore exam last week yes last week i didn't talk about it because i didn't want to because i didn't pass i uh and the chat's blowing up i should stop doing these giveaways like this because i can't even talk to you guys it's gonna be impossible for me to find any chats but anyways yeah i um took the encore exam from my home from this very chair looking at me i'm sitting in here i don't know how in the world i'm going to pick a winner this thing is weird and i feel the encore exam i did not study for it i'll tell you why i failed man i'm not doing this again this is like blowing up rmrf yeah that's good andrew i like that uh that's a command that you enter on linux too just break everything and we just did that thankfully there's no latency with me uh talking of course knock on wood i never know yeah i feel the encore exam no big deal i didn't study there's a lot of wireless stuff sd-wan things i didn't know i'm going to uh what was my score i think hey it was like a uh what was the passing i forget i forgot my score actually i i just like i just got it out of my mind i was like i'm done i'm gonna go for it again though i i didn't what i did is i cisco had this like half off deal for the encore exam or any cisco exam you could buy a voucher for half off so i did that you guys can stop doing things i'm going to um see if i can pick a winner now i don't know how to pick a winner this thing is dumb i'm not gonna blame it on that though i think uh i think i'm the dumb one so i'm gonna look through all the chats and pick a winner real quick just at random where my mouse lands on and now okay gabe carbah you are the winner i'm going to post that in there real quick please everyone stop doing things so gabe if you're still watching still listening send me an email to contest networkchuck.com with um just in an email i'll reply back to you with everything you need uh please no one try to impersonate gabe don't social engineer me because i'll social engineer you right back um that by the way is an example of social engineering if you were to try to win my coffee but you didn't actually win you try to pretend to be gabe that's impersonation that's your lesson for today so gabe congrats for winning that and um i love that name micropanda one of my members here it's such a cool name yeah i'm gonna take the encore again um i'm just gonna study a bit more it was annoying it's annoying because i i was this close to getting my ccnp i passed every our ccp writing switching i passed all three exams just not within three years and now it's a lot more than just routing and switching it's so much more so yeah i i was close i was pretty close i gotta do it again yes brian it is a promise if someone has ceh or security plus it depends on what your goal is if your goal is to become a hacker security plus first if your goal is to just not become a hacker but learn about security security plus security plus all the way actually um until you get to the point where uh i'm gonna get out of this thing it's being stupid man going live is never cut and dry or easy all you people give me a hard time about going live it's it's difficult um so dave or dave gabe i'll put the email you gotta email just so you know contest network chuck dot com now the uh i'm gonna give away five bags here in a bit so hang on just hang tight i'm trying to figure out a better way to do this this is not very uh conducive to giving away things anymore i need more help um what was i saying oh yeah security plus all the way ceh i'm still exploring this certification it's it's good it's a good certification it's good solid information but i'll tell you what the barrier to entry with this is super expensive like it's the exam itself is like a thousand dollars who i don't know a normal person who's just self-paced studying and paying for their own stuff who could do that so it's it's obviously being targeted at companies who can pay for their employees to go through the process that's where it's a little frustrating but i think the the content solid so that's why i'm going through it to see if it's great for you guys and i want to be able to recommend it if it's actually something you should do security plus all the way um i don't know if i can tell you this yet yeah i guess i can security plus is one of those uh exams i'm gonna make for free on youtube which is coming out soon so be looking for that and before anyone asks about the ccna before anyone does anything i know i am making free ccna content here on youtube i've done day zero i've done day one day two is coming i just had a few things that kind of got in the way um just so you know these videos they they do take time i'm not making like i say i'm making excuse for myself yeah i'm making an excuse these videos do take time and um somebody will take more time than others sometimes it takes me forever sometimes i mess up on things like i'm oh it's there's so much involved with it but i love doing it so my goal right now is to pick up the pace and and have a lot more videos ready to go for you guys and i will be posting those videos early on this is it if you don't know what i'm talking about when i say this is it that's mine and david bomble's new initiative where uh it's really cool i i love that i get to partner with david because we're working on something together this this crazy effort which not it's it's kind of weird because like there's there's really not a clear like way to make money from this and that's not our goal that's that's the point we're creating free it training on youtube and uh he he just announced his free ccna today which is gonna be amazing and i i have my free ccna going and we're gonna collaborate on other courses as well to just create a ton of free training and that's our whole thing um we've we've talked about this forever and i could not do this with cbt nuggets and they wouldn't let me um so finally able to step out and do this is like my dream so yeah i will be stepping up the the content creation process getting that out for you guys i'll be posting early on this is it releasing it weekly here on this youtube channel so be looking for all that so now what i'll do real quick and i guess i won't be able to announce the winner of this one right away uh but the first the next five people to go sign up for this is it doesn't matter what tier it is the next five people from this moment in time which right now it's for me 3 20 p.m the next five people will win a free bag of coffee from network chuck coffee so link link below i'll put the link in the chat real quick this is it.io first five people to sign up for that we'll get a free bag of coffee and again that's um it's a membership site that you're you're helping david and i produce more of this um and and you're helping us just kind of focus on this like right now my business model for youtube and i'll be straight up and honest with you guys um i have to just because i quit my job doesn't mean my life expenses went away a lot of what i try to do is get sponsorships and things to cover what i do so i can do more youtube videos uh but having having that recurring income members supporting us is kind of a load off and helps us focus and laser focus on what we need to do um so yeah that's just why like and you know what it's only if you can afford it that's it like if if it's like if you have to like go back to your spouse be like okay let's look in our budget can we pay for this no don't do that that's that's silly we're producing the free content so you can freely use it and when you get to a point in your career where like i'm banking yeah once you throw a few things my way that's my hope for you guys because like that that's why i'm doing this this is it this is i.t you some of you know my story i started in it when i was 21 22 uh plumbing salesmen i was selling toilets to apartment complexes and then i i started studying for my a plus got my plus certification got a help desk job and i was so blessed to be surrounded by people who knew how it worked so i i worked with the network engineer who was above me who was like yeah you can just kind of study study study for your it certifications you can get your ccna if you come with me to the data center you're not gonna get paid extra for overtime but if you come with me and kind of shadow me i'll teach you things he showed me the path i did that and it paid off like it did i went from making i couldn't have been making more than 30 000 a year as a plumbing salesman within probably three maybe four years i was making over six figures in i.t and i i want to say i'm saying that not to say like i don't want to be like a tai lopez like oh you can make money real fast look at my lamborghini i'm not saying it to say that i'm saying i see this happen all the time i'm i'm not like an anomaly and i and i i've and it's not like that i'm super smart or super special or anything it's not because i'm not like um i've talked with a lot of people and this is their experience because it's a crazy crazy lucrative career so my hope is that i can help as many people as i can discover this path because i feel like traditional education kind of just doesn't see it like this like system admin network admin is a good path or they don't highlight it it's always about going down the four-year degree path maybe some computer science i know they're eventually picking up on that but man you don't even really need in in the us and i can only speak for the u.s you really don't even need a a four-year degree to be successful in this i do not have a degree many of you know that it's crazy what you can do i'm gonna take a sip of coffee i'm telling you this stuff is good so i would be honored if whoever you're getting your coffee from i could replace them and i can be your official coffee supplier so i i i normally order my coffee from some other program but i'm gonna be my own coffee supplier so i'll be honored if i could be if i could be with you in all your study sessions and help you focus and um i know for many of you i'm already helping you in my videos let me help you with the stimulants let me uh let me be a drug dealer for you dimitri clark from our reddit haters uh you know i they gave me great content following my advice i'm starting at 90k that's amazing i remember when i hit uh over six figures i couldn't believe it because i i never in my life i thought that maybe one day maybe like far into the future i might make 70k a year never in my life i thought i'd reach six figures it was amazing amazing and it's possible is it easy no it's not it's not easy you have to study you have to put in the time you have to be creative you have to learn how to market yourself you have to learn how to network and how to network you have to learn the the the base concepts of it but also learn how to deal with people make connections uh i i said this on stream before but the majority of my jobs i've i've gotten over the years it's because i've it was from people i've known who i had relationships with it all started with the first job that first helped desk job and just bringing my a game every single day 100 and how you act every single day bringing your expertise into that in that situation will be your best friend forever seriously um so yeah it's totally possible getting six figures but again i can't promise that because it's a difficult path you have to study hard but it is a cool path because you can i always say this you're basically cheating at life it's a shortcut shortcut i didn't go to college um i skipped i i got my certification which took me three three to six months and uh jumped right into a helpdesk job because you can get a help desk job right with a plus and by the way help those jobs pay great by themselves if you want to make a career out of help desk go for it because they they pay great compared to a lot of careers i've seen a lot of help desk people start out at 50k um so i started out at uh around 35 35 and i just built my my way up from there but you can do some crazy things it's amazing now i would never ask you guys to put your salary right now in the chat but if you if you're doing well let people know in the chat and the comments below because it is encouraging as people start down this path and they start going for their a plus ccna you definitely want to have real talk like yeah you're not going to make six figures overnight just by getting your ccna no no it takes more than that getting your ccna is one step one step the rest of it it could be another certification that separates you and is the x factor that could be it or it could be that you you get a job where you can really work your butt off get get some exposure uh work with technologies that you've never seen before and become an expert in that maybe you're at a job where aw aws or azure is something really new and they don't really have an expert on staff become that expert become that person that's how you that's that's the secret sauce man that's how you separate yourself from the the pack and uh one more piece of advice because this stream is kind of completely random i apologize but it's just a random wednesday and uh i'm hopped up on coffee and i hope you are too uh one more piece of advice i would give you is uh something i wish i would have listened to a long time ago is don't stay at one job too long uh don't depend on raises to get you to where you want to be financially it just won't happen you have to realize that your company's goals are not to increase your salary and increase your skill set to where you're amazing your company's goal is to keep you but at the end of the day you're a line item you're an expense and they they want to keep their op budget as low as possible their operational budget so i found my most the most increased like my raises have always been like really tiny incremental stuff nothing big but i've always found my biggest raises were when i gave myself a raise when i jumped to the next company and that that's scary because it you might be leaving a comfortable situation where you know everyone where you know how to do the job and you're jumping to something foreign and scary and that is like legit terrifying but that's the risk you take and that's where you where you win big i've got some super chats i need to address but i saw two people i i know love and follow and i know they follow me is william murray and uh aj aj i forget your last name dude but you guys uh passed encore congrats that's amazing and all of you working on search that have recently passed congrats like that's it's not the best feeling in the world it's it's like a drug it really is it is so cool to be able to do something like that i'm going to launch something real quick so i can bring out some super chats so again i gave one bag of coffee away to mr gabe who won the uh the crazy spam chat that you got me hacked and then i'm giving away five bags of coffee to the first five people to sign up for this is it the link below what else should i do i kind of want to give five more bags away but i still know how to deal with this live stream it's kind of frustrating i'll tell you what i'm fully aware that not everyone who watches this video is watching it live you could be watching it later and if you're watching it live right now you can still do this when this live stream is over comments will be open below the video they may already be open i want you to enter hashtag let's see which what's the hashtag be hashtag this is it in the comments below now this will be us only because shipping anywhere else can be kind of expensive us only so comments not not the chat right now so calm down don't don't spam my chat in the comments after this video hashtag this is it i'll pick five winners and give away five bags of coffee one bag per person make sure i specify that anyways um i distracted myself what was i doing before oh yeah i was gonna bring up something so i can answer some super chats and by the way thanks everyone for being here and i want to give a massive shout out to all the people who are uh supporting me and what i'm doing um i know that i promised i would release ccna stuff and all this hacking stuff and have it like come out really quickly it's coming so i appreciate your patience and all that it is it is a lot of stuff going on for me right now um but i appreciate all you guys supporting me uh signing up for this is it signing up for the network chuck membership you guys are amazing seriously so if there's any way i can help you reach out to me i'm signing for the discord i don't post about the discord as often as i should but it's discord dot gg forward slash network chuck that's my community i've got some amazing people in there if you want to go hang out in there i highly encourage you to do that i um i need to go hang out there again because i haven't been there in a bit i'll actually after the stream i'm gonna go in there and hang out uh let me launch this thing real quick um let's see [Music] real quick in the chat let me know what uh what your favorite coffee is now i don't know everyone's like a coffee aficionado like um maybe i i'll say snob i'm a coffee snob i don't know everyone's a coffee snob but if you are a coffee shop like myself and you drink it black and you like those you can just taste the flavor you drink it like a assembly sommelier is that how you say it where you you get the notes and you you know the regions i love the ethiopian regions because they're so i love a good medium roast the flavors are amazing i sound so pretentious right now i know this but what's your favorite coffee let me know in the chat okay pulling this up now it's not what i wanted to happen still not what i wanted to happen cool cool cool cool and then i'll pull up one more screen thank you for being patient with me today guys as i go through all this dumb stuff that we call tech i'm just gonna go to one more screen here and then i'll be able to put up some chats on the screen let me see if i can pull up one shot here and answer a question everyone stop spamming please stop spamming i'm just kidding it's okay raul hello oh i'm here i'm there hi or hi hi hero douglas i sucked you in i hope you mean the coffee and yeah oh wow okay so i'm not going to do this i'm not going to do this but i appreciate the uh yeah request asdf i was going to try and say it that username hi chuck may request you make a complete voice course for free instead of vanilla cca i'll tell you why i'm not going to make a voice course if you don't know what voice is he's talking about ccna or no not ccna probably ccnp collaboration phones and such and if you know my background you know i love collaboration i would love to make a course in collaboration that seriously be fun amazing and gosh wouldn't that be fun but you know who would watch it just you astf asd jkf abcdfg that's the only person who to watch it because it's just not a popular course i'll be honest i make content that i can help the most people that's that's my goal is to as a wide a wide shot again thanks to zach i'm going to pull this up we're still looking at super chats now again if you missed it i'm giving away five bags of coffee in the comments after this live stream ah it's not bringing up my old stuff anyways i'll go through the super chats here just verbally confirming these kep tech i t support thank you for the super chat keep doing what i'm doing i will i'll keep doing it that's a good question so thank you tae kwon gong i hope i said your name right i'm sorry if i mispronounced it have you ever taken a job and then during the training realized you don't like it yes yes i um actually i worked for capital one for a little bit it was a call center job it wasn't technical it was before i became i.t focused yeah during the training it was it was in their auto finance stuff so you know capital one does auto finance for cars and i was going to be one of the agents that took calls oh my numbing experience i i i i left like day three or four something like that another one i did is um i worked for sprint it was an at-home job this is before working from home was a big deal i was working at home it's back in 2000 nine i was working at home for for sprint and is the worst thing in the world i was making like seven dollars an hour i left during the training for that that was the worst but it related yeah i've had that too so i've had an i.t job where i always wanted to work for an msp which is a managed service provider so instead of working in it for one company you work for a company that services multiple companies and a lot of people love that they do not for me i worked at this company as uh for an msp for about a week um as a voice guy did not like it i don't like driving i don't like going to client sites i hate all that i like working i like working for one place honing my craft for that one place i like designing my infrastructure making it pretty i like doing all these like i like playing around with it but i do not like going to different companies that's not my cup of tea a cup of coffee by the way that works like coffee i want to keep doing that through this uh stream i'm not going to apologize for it either uh thank you karil sharif for the super chat i wish if i can maybe paste some of these into the stream i didn't capture him all now it's not gonna work he says i have five years experience in software development field what is the better way to switch to penetration testing uh or red teaming well i'll say this man so hacking is one of those things kind of like the cloud where you you can bring whatever whatever skill you have whether it's system admin network engineering coding you can bring that skill set into that realm and become a boss so like a marcus hutchins who i was talking to in my last video he's a hacker but he's a he's a programmer like he started programming when he was like eight years old he knew he was an expert he's like c plus plus and stuff by the time he was 14. and i see expert i don't know if he was like an expert but he was good at it uh he he reverse engineers uh malware which malware is nothing but just malicious software it's just software it's coding um so yeah a good way to start i would just get into um honestly i don't have a great answer for you to be honest because i'm looking at hacking from the perspective of being assist admin or a network admin and going from there and building those skills beyond that i'm not sure i don't know i guess to be a proper penetration tester you have to know all those skills right you have to know about networking protocols and system vulnerabilities so i would just go down a path so like ceh is what i'm going down right now i know many people don't recommend that so maybe don't invest a lot of money in that but there's oscp which i guess i can tell you guys that now i'm going down to scp i've already got things something set up to go down that path after ceh so it's already already in the books that's what i would look at i hope that's your question uh imc tv media thank you for the super chat uh thanks for the vids learned a lot sure i'll try your coffee good you should all try my coffee that would be great i'm telling you i wanted to try it before i sold it i tried it and it lived up to the hype it's amazing um nicholas let's see if i can put you on the screen it still hasn't found my all my chats yet no it's not happening right now i'll do that here in a second i just started my t career in march as a field service technician at an msp msp there it is your videos helped any resources you know about to develop projects at home so i'm assuming when you say projects you mean like maybe an active directory server at your house or um raspberry pi stuff or installing network equipment into your house i would say uh projects the home i would just try to what i always try to do is duplicate what i see in the enterprise in my house i've got enterprise stuff in my house right now it's not cutting edge because what psycho has cutting-edge equipment in their house unless you work for like a well unless you work for an msp they might let you have equipment and let you use it to test that's what i would do um like so right now i'm in my house i've got a server closet and this is not uncommon for it people to have this because as you learn you want to you want to lab it up and you end up having in your house i've got an active directory set up in my house i've got two servers running esxi which is a vmware's hypervisor elastic sky integrated i've got what else do i have a phone system running i've got cucm cisco call manager i have uh raspberry pi's galore what else do i have i have a lot of stuff i'm realizing as i go through it oh just all kinds of stuff like a file system uh network attached storage but yeah that's what i would say and of course i got i've got actually two networks running in my network i've got a i've got a static ip from my group of static ips from my uh provider and i have um basically two separate networks running in my house i got one network which is unifi ubiquity and i've got a separate cisco network so just because because i like it um see i just duplicate what you see out in the wild it'll make you a better engineer it does um saliha thank you for the super chat always good to see you um what would it take to sponsor one of my videos love your new program free ccna let me know how i should do uh what what should i do after ccna ccna security to be a unicorn what happened to your wife's channel uh oh my wife has a youtube channel but we're not doing anything on that right now you guys may not know about that it's called let's just go let's oh it's called let's just go.family so i think the web address still works let's just go.family is the website does it still work oh yeah it goes to our youtube channel cool so if you want to know more about my personal life uh we posted things there for a while we uh if you've been following me for a while you know i quit my my main job and i got a remote job and i went and traveled to europe for like three months and we plan to do it longer but we just didn't i love france we spent a lot of time in france but um i'm going off topic now uh so yeah go follow that channel it's kind of fun and i did the original uh see do you all remember the cinnamon challenge where you got a spoonful of cinnamon and you tried to swallow it one of those stupid stupid things you could do i was the original video on that i'm the reason i don't know where i i i didn't come with the idea i saw the idea somewhere but youtube claimed there's a car alarm going off hopefully you guys can't hear that idiot i have the original cinnamon challenge video on that channel and you can see my brother cameron which i've had cameron on the channel well this is back when cameron was like six or seven and i made him do the challenge and he was like crying is horrible but hilarious you should go watch it um so leah if you want to sponsor one of my videos first of all thank you you can reach out to alexa networkchuck.com that's how you can reach out and find out about that she's add something to my shopping list no stop don't do that i have an alexa on the wall sorry if i made your alexa go off uh and what should i do after ccna security to be a unicorn it depends like i know you have your business right so yeah so i would do whatever supports your small business and i think i don't think it's small anymore is it so at your point it's tough to say you want to specialize in networking i would do that ccp security um go to go for a ccp encore uh maybe branch out the systems go some microsoft azure i mean azure aws any of that stuff in the cloud a lot of smaller to medium-sized companies are even looking at the cloud as a way to to be more agile to upgrade their systems quickly that's what i would look at mitchell kelly thank you for the super chat chuck i'm a sysadmin looking at getting my vcp or microsoft cert what would you recommend great question so vcp is a vmware certified professional and the microsoft it could be anything i don't know what you're talking about but it could be i'm going to assume you're talking about any kind of mscp am i like losing it what's the microsoft is it mscp it doesn't matter anymore because um mcse they're like they change they change it so much i i keep forgetting uh they're changing things so it's all azure focus and all role based so what would i recommend well first of all it comes down to what your job wants you to do what what's go talk to your boss go talk to whoever your who controls your paycheck it controls what you do say hey if i went down a path would you want me to get vcp or azure what's more valuable to this company be straight up say what would get me a raise what would get me a promotion what would what would it bring the most value to this company how can i provide more value to the company and obviously i want something out of it so how how will it benefit me ask that question vcp and azure certs are amazing they're both amazing and they're extremely valuable in the right context if you're a vmware guy if you're working with vmware stuff vcp is a no-brainer it's a it's a good thing it helps you move to other jobs it demonstrates your credibility azure you know i love azure that'd be a great step too hope that answered your question mitchell i've seen a bunch of stuff come in so i'm going to refresh my page here thanks again for hanging out on this random wednesday chat guys if you're just tuning in i did say i'd give away coffee i already gave one bag away i'm giving away five to the first five people who sign up for this is it a link below doesn't matter what tier you choose and of course five bags i'm giving away to people in the comments after this video is done if you're able to call can you comment on a live stream that's not the live chat let me see i want to see if this is possible while i'm chatting with you now i think you can yeah you can i think you can comment so you want to comment on the video and not in the chat that'd be cool where can you buy my coffee right here oh yeah the web address is network chuck dot coffee did you know that i had coffee domains that's so cool isn't it i love that oh you can't comment below that okay so comment after the video is done so as soon as i'm done it'll be a hashtag what did i say this is it okay a few more super chats to go through and i might have to end this because i'm getting tired uh and i've got a church small group tonight uh raul santos i i don't know if i saw your comment but thank you for the super chat um miss heather smiles can you enable paypal as a payment option for this it website great question uh let me put your let's put your comment on the screen this thing is so finicky i gotta love technology there it goes all right it's gonna work i think is it gonna come up is it gonna come up i can't see my my screen oh it came up yes okay uh yes paypal will be coming uh we set up a platform or we set up on a platform that doesn't meet all our needs so we're actually going to be changing platforms and uh that's one of the reasons why because i know like i everywhere i go when i pay online i try to use paypal or apple pay or something that you know has that kind of barrier in between me putting an actual credit card number in totally understand that see that that's coming nathan let me put this in the chat or on the screen nathan betch elder i'm addicted to coffee keep up the good work we need more i.t personnel on the field not enough people to hire uh thank you for the super chat and that's a great insight because that's true it might seem like uh right now during the whole thing the situation you know what i'm talking about uh it seems like jobs aren't aren't happening it seems like the economy is kind of crashing and a lot of areas it's not doing so well but we still have an i.t shortage we still have a skill shortage we we need people in this field that's why i'm always like that's why i love this channel that's why i love making content for this because we need people and if you choose this field if you choose this path i can't say i guarantee you a good career but i can guarantee you you have a really good chance of succeeding you can like i told you i you can cheat at life you can cheat this path uh by choosing it path because you can you don't have to go to college you can just get an it certification uh do your best to gain some experience and once you once you have that experience just if you're on a help desk once you have the help desk position you can do so much seriously that i realized i fully realized the the initial problem is getting that first it drop uh getting that first help desk job and there's a lot of ways you can do that i'll i know i keep saying this but i will make a video series on that but once you have that first job you can you can stick to your stick yourself to someone like glue someone who uh an admin above you a system sysadmin a network admin and just go like crazy because experience is the most valuable thing in it the most viable thing and you pair that with i.t certifications if you prove that you're learning if you're it's so cool anyways i keep going up on tangents thank you nathan for the super chat we got another one coming in right here i'm going to send this in thank you epic games hd i'm currently a knock which he's a network operations technician he works for a network operations center with a ccna but i feel like my job is not helping achieve my goal to be a network engineer or be in the networking department yeah i see that one thing about a knock is that it's cool because you're already like you're you're and it depends on what knock it is typically when you're in a network operations center you're not super super like heavy networking focus or technical most of the time you're going to be the kind of remote hands person you're sitting there you're looking at things diagrams things and you're monitoring maybe the building you're monitoring the cooling systems and you're you're basically just looking at alerts and if something red pops up you're like i you may know how to fix it it may be some like basic thing or might be like okay my job is to escalate and then a lot of times and i've called you guys before it might be that i have let's say i'm the customer i have stuff in the data center i will call my data center and say hey this bot this router isn't responding or something can you go like physically reboot it press the button unplug it or something and that would be your job as a knock technician to walk into my cabinet unlock it do all that stuff um i when i first started in it when i was on the help desk and i was moving up my dr the job i wanted the most was a knock technician job why though first i was going to be surrounded by networking equipment by servers and the humming and like that to me just like i love being in a data center it is so it talk about nerd city i love it so much the other reason is that in most knock positions and most knock jobs you've got some down time i love a job oh my gosh i love a job where you get time to study if you can find like you can't downplay that enough a job that one of the perks is that they let you study on their time i work for jobs where they would let you have like an hour to study sometimes they would give you more time like if things are just slow where you're not working on a project they would let you study and that's that's killer so a knock technician job you have a lot of down time where you can study you may have access to lab equipment they may just have extra stuff laying around you can lean on the expertise of others and the uh and the knock it's killer it's killer so to answer your question uh i apologize for taking so long so you oh it's not only a question but i kind of know where you're going with it you you're in this position but you don't think it's going to help you reach a goal of becoming a network engineer i would make a move that's what i would do um don't leave anything to chance and what i mean by that is don't just study real hard do your job well and expect somebody to notice yeah someone might notice not going to discount that but don't let that be the only thing be upfront with your managers be upfront with your supervisors say hey i'm here i'm going to do my job to the best of my i want to be i'm going to be your best knock technician the best one you've ever seen but i'm ambitious and i want to become a network engineer i want to move up to tier two tier three tier five thousand that's what over nine thousand that's what i want to be uh can we can we walk through a plan where that happens for me what would i have to do to get to that point be honest and you know what if they say oh honestly we just need you to be a knock technician we don't need you to do anything else then start looking somewhere else because there are companies i'm telling you if i hired somebody oh my gosh i've never had this happen to me honestly if i hired somebody and they had that mentality like they came to me and said hey i want to excel i'm ambitious i want i want to move up in this company i'd be like okay well here can i pay for your training can i do this that i've been in that position where i've i've had to hire people and and that would be amazing i let me tell you this i'm getting so excited about this um when i was a network engineer working in the field when i say in the field i mean like working for a company and i was their network admin when we needed to hire somebody you know what i would do first before we put a job requisition out before we looked anywhere else i would look internally i would look around everyone at that company i would target the help desk i'd go to the help desk and i would see who's hungry and i would even like put a bug in there i'd be like hey uh so-and-so susan susan you look like you like what you're doing we're looking to hire somebody to move up and become a network engineer or maybe a junior network a junior network admin uh could you maybe start going for the certification could you maybe come over and start helping with a few things if they were like super receptive of that if they were ready to go if they were hungry if i saw that fire in their eyes i'll be like okay yeah let's move you up that's what i want the most i would always look at the help desk first i know i'm not unique in thinking that so man if you're on a help desk right now make it clear be honest be transparent about what you want and then if if that company doesn't offer what you're looking for there are companies who who will they value that so that's what i would do uh epic games hd uh vyom thank you for the super chat i'll throw your name up in the lights real quick uh thank you and he says uh no asserts yet but working as a network engineer that's the thing too did you know that you can be a network engineer without a degree and without certifications you can do that the only reason anyone ever gets a degree in nit a degree or certifications is to help them get the job and to give them more value as they move around but i've met total bosses like they are amazing network engineers who knew way more than me who are way more skilled than i was no formal education no certifications at all they're just good they they made they started on the help desk they moved up they learned the skill they had experience and they were able to move up in that job move to other jobs without having a degree or certifications because they had experience so that's what's cool about i.t i love it so much because there's no one path there's no one path to success you can choose your path for you maybe that is a degree and that might be crazy valuable for you for a variety of reasons but it doesn't you don't have to get a degree you don't have to anyways uh eric bros thank you for the super chat i think you answered my coffee question i asked earlier let me throw it up here he says ethiopian or colombian coffee used to hate coffee until i worked at a coffee shop and i figured out what i like yeah um i used to be like a person and no no offense to anyone who's like this like that's fine but like i drank white chocolate mochas from starbucks i love the flavored drinks and coffee stuff uh until one day i realized i need to lose some weight so i went on this like atkins carb free diet and i couldn't have the fancy drink so i'm like okay i still love coffee i need to lose weight i'm going to drink black coffee it took me a bit probably three weeks to get used to it but then then i started trying some good coffee when i say good coffee like this it's coffee i'm selling you go buy it it's not coffee like if you go to like the supermarket like kroger or target and if you're in another country like tesco or something i don't know um careful it's not coffee off the shelf like that this is coffee that will be freshly roasted because for i cannot tell you enough how much it matters to have your coffee freshly roasted how much it matters for the taste because you should only drink coffee that's been roasted within the maybe past couple weeks if it's beyond that which that's why you always want to see a roast roast on date or roast by date i can tell you this when you order my coffee they they get your order they roast it then they ship it to you that's cool um but yeah when you like buy a bag of starbucks coffee at the store i'm sure it might be cheaper but you know what that coffee could have been roasted gosh i don't know last christmas i have no idea so yeah this is like this is more craft coffee for people who appreciate the the flavors and the who may be drinking black or i'm not or maybe just a little bit of cream no big deal anyways i'm going up on another tangent um i appreciate all 500 of you who are still watching this and just kind of piling around with me but i do need to go pretty soon i'm gonna bring up some more super chats bec