00:00um what degrees or education would you
00:02recommend getting for it related careers
00:08that that is a big question so
00:12there is no set education path for
00:17any of the tech fields because the field
00:19is so new that there are so many
00:21different routes that you can take so
00:24you can go to the traditional route and
00:26get a degree in i.t and then after that
00:29you can get a job in it and you can do
00:31that you can also join the military like
00:34you get a gi bill and they'll pay for
00:36your college and you'll also get
00:37experience it does take a certain type
00:40of personality to deal with that so i
00:42would strongly use against it if you
00:45don't think you're that type of person
00:46um you could get a certificate uh an
00:50itcher those are huge in the i t field
00:53and then you could get a job from that
00:54because that verifies your knowledge you
00:56could also just create your own
00:58experience and set up an llc
01:01uh make your own projects post youtube
01:04videos on tutorials that you create and
01:06show that to a potential employer and
01:08you can put that in your resume and be
01:10like hey i did this um
01:13it's really up to you and your
01:14personality type there's so many
01:16different ways you don't need a degree
01:19you don't need a cert you don't need
01:21military experience you just really need
01:24to be able to sell yourself to an
01:26employer that you can solve their
01:29problems and that's what's so amazing
01:31about the tech field maybe not in other
01:33fields where it's more traditional but
01:36there are unlimited possibilities and
01:38with a little creativity you can get a
01:40job with limited experience and no
01:44fairly quickly got it okay that's some
01:46great insight um what would you say
01:49actually matters when it comes to
01:51getting a job specifically uh from the
01:53perspective of someone who maybe just
01:55graduated high school and they're
01:57looking to get into i.t and the tech
01:59field in general or maybe someone who
02:01already got their degree and they just
02:03graduated college so what actually
02:05matters when it comes to getting that
02:12many various factors but if you have a
02:14degree and you're looking to get into
02:16the field or even looking to change your
02:20i would say creating projects and
02:22creating your own experience
02:24so there are there are many ways to do
02:27that and you can do it all in your home
02:29you don't have to go anywhere to get the
02:32uh i mean google is your best friend and
02:35you can create your own projects put
02:38um and gain your own experience show an
02:41employer that you have a lot to offer to
02:44them so not only can you learn tech but
02:45you can also create videos and do all of
02:47these different tutorials and most
02:50important you can learn on your own and
02:51be resourceful so those are really
02:53important skills for tech is you have to
02:56continuously learn on your own
02:58um and that that definitely kind of
03:00portrays that to an employer quick break
03:02guys i forgot to mention this during the
03:04video but there's a really good
03:06certification that's highly rated it's
03:08the ibm cyber security analyst
03:10certification and i'm going to include
03:12that in the description down below it'll
03:14be at the very top of the description
03:15and then also there is a phenomenal way
03:17that a lot of students who go to some of
03:19these alternative schools like wgu use
03:22to test out of classes and that's how
03:24they are able to finish their degree in
03:26less than a year so i'll leave both of
03:27those down in the description below at
03:29the very top definitely check those out
03:30and let's get back to the video so you
03:33can create your own experience by
03:35creating an llc and then making youtube
03:39of tutorials you can also create a
03:43to do more security projects or web
03:45development or software development
03:47um and then you can put that on your
03:49resume you can link to your github with
03:54um so honestly that right there and then
03:58that shows that you have resourcefulness
04:00which is really important in i.t that
04:02you're eager to learn and that it also
04:04shows what type of employee you lead so
04:06it's already demonstrating leadership
04:09abilities right there and that is
04:10exactly what employers want um they
04:13don't want you to tell you everything
04:14you need to do you want you to think on
04:16your own and kind of think outside of
04:20yeah one thing uh when people you know
04:23ask me for advice in private
04:25a lot of the time i tell them that one
04:27of the best strategies you can use is
04:30there are certain things where you want
04:31to not stand out right it's a good idea
04:34to not stand out in certain areas to be
04:38and then there's other areas where you
04:40you really do want to stand out like
04:42it's extremely important and uh one
04:44thing you can do that uh to make
04:46yourself stand out in a positive way
04:48is just to try to get their attention in
04:51a creative way so you could maybe make
04:53your own video in order to get their
04:55attention you could do a project uh to
04:57show them that you're able to teach
04:59yourself some of these skills like you
05:01know the ability to make videos for
05:02instance that's a skill you know it
05:05to teach yourself that and if you're
05:07able to do that teach yourself that and
05:09do it in a creative way chances are
05:11you're going to be able to take on a
05:12bunch of the other tasks that require
05:15you to think outside of the box within
05:17the business itself so it's just a great
05:19way to kind of demonstrate that
05:21to a potential employer and then you
05:23also kind of just stand out in general i
05:26mean you're the the person who made the
05:27video they they don't even know your
05:29name they're like hey what about the uh
05:30the video guy or something you know
05:32that's a great way to kind of stand out
05:35uh from the crowd so to speak um but
05:37again i don't want to i don't want to
05:39like speak for you but uh that's kind of
05:41one thing no you're right
05:44yep you are right kind of standing out
05:47but within the box you know like you
05:49don't want to make your resume colorful
05:52but you just want to show your skills
05:55you know you want to be like i'm the
05:56best at this kind of you know but not
06:00i'm going to cause problems
06:04try to i don't know but yeah
06:07it is a that's one reason why i've never
06:09made a video about it because i feel
06:13it's kind of general information and
06:15people would try to apply
06:17general information to like a specific
06:20job and they probably wouldn't do it
06:24kind of advice directly for me so that's
06:26one reason why i kind of don't include
06:28that in videos but uh
06:31correctly before and i've seen people
06:34get jobs that are just like their dream
06:37job like right away yeah by doing that
06:39so it's it's definitely something you
06:43one thing i wanted to ask you about
06:44nicole is uh are there any pitfalls that
06:47people should specifically look out for
06:50when it comes to getting into it
06:54so these were some of my pitfalls um
06:58uh i would just read so i'm really big
07:00on reading i love researching and i love
07:03reading and i just find it all
07:04fascinating but i wouldn't do anything i
07:06wouldn't apply these skills to tech i
07:09would just continuously gain all of this
07:11knowledge but i would never apply it so
07:14i did this for years probably early
07:16career for the first three or four years
07:18i just learned stuff and read and
07:21watched youtube videos but i never set
07:23up a lab and actually did it so when it
07:26came to actually applying that knowledge
07:29it was just it was just useless
07:31knowledge i was like there's it's
07:33completely useless to have all this
07:34knowledge and not use it or know how to
07:37use it because i never did it in a lab i
07:39just theoretically knew it so that was
07:41my number one favorite fall my number
07:43two pitfall is i stayed at the help desk
07:46a little bit too long
07:48uh you can kind of get stuck there
07:51and it pays well and you're like well do
07:53i ever really need to leave the help
07:54desk you're like this is nice but
07:57you can get stuck at the hell desk so
07:59what your goal when you get a help desk
08:01job if that's where you start is to get
08:02out of the help desk as fast as you can
08:05because you can just stay stuck there um
08:10some you also don't need to spend a lot
08:12of money on a degree i didn't but some
08:16people spend like 80 90
08:19to get a help desk job or even a system
08:24you don't need any of that uh i suggest
08:27um i have some reviews on it but it's
08:31uh you can get a degree fast and it's
08:34just functional it's just it works for
08:36tech not for other fields but for tech
08:41and then also in this field you can kind
08:44of get lazy because you get paid well so
08:48you have to motivate yourself to
08:49continuously learn new things and your
08:51skills otherwise you're going to become
08:52outdated really fast and that's also a
08:55benefit for anyone entering the field
08:57because the skills you learn are up to
08:58date whereas people who have been in the
09:00industry for 10 20 years their skills
09:03may be a little rusty so
09:05i mean you're gonna get replaced with
09:06the newer screw in the the great
09:10which is a pro and a con so i would say
09:13those are the major pitfalls you know
09:15people a lot of people who watch this
09:17channel very young sometimes they're in
09:19high school sometimes they're early in
09:20college and they're kind of at that
09:22point in their life where they don't
09:25what job would be best for them so
09:28what type of personalities or you know
09:33tend to be really good or tend to enjoy
09:36this type of career i always liked
09:40and so someone who likes puzzles would
09:42do well in this career
09:45and also you have to be very curious i
09:48was always curious about everything
09:50around me and i loved to learn i was
09:52just continuously learning as a high
09:54school student and a college student um
09:56and in this field it really satisfies
09:59that because there's so much to learn
10:01and once you get in a little bit it just
10:03opens up a whole new world of just
10:06tech and it's just absolutely
10:08fascinating and then you can apply those
10:11to other things in your life like
10:12business and relationships and it gets
10:15really nerdy uh so curiosity
10:18number one number two someone who can
10:22kind of go with the flow um not too
10:25rigid and kind of it needs to be this
10:27way because in tech you're gonna
10:29you're gonna destroy things in a sense
10:31and you have to be okay with that and
10:34with the flow you'd be like oh i broke
10:36this and then you just have to fix it
10:37really fast or or something will come up
10:39or a customer or a network will go out
10:42someone hacks your network you just have
10:44to be like oh this happened now how can
10:46i fix it and so someone who's solution
10:48oriented and not problem oriented
10:50because the problems are going to happen
10:52you just have to find a solution and
10:54just be like i'm done all right let's
10:58someone can be like water someone who's
11:00curious someone who likes puzzles
11:03but i would say those are the three
11:06things and then also someone who's
11:07resourceful and self-reliant because it
11:12figuring things out on your own not
11:14someone's not really going to tell you
11:15what to do but my boss has no idea what
11:17i do so when they're not much help and
11:20then you're continuously thrown in new
11:21situations to where you have to learn
11:25um and that comes as you get more
11:27experience you can learn things faster
11:30yeah you could say those things
11:32got it what about um introvert versus
11:34extrovert do you think
11:36that applies here or does it not matter
11:38that's a big thing so i'm more
11:40introverted and i can go days without
11:43talking to someone but if you're an
11:45extrovert you may have issues because
11:47you're going to be surrounded by
11:50i've seen it happen i've seen extroverts
11:53trapped in introverts jobs and it's not
11:58i'm not saying you can't succeed you can
12:01become an i.t manager and there's
12:03there's roles that do deal a lot with
12:04people like desktop support help desk
12:10but you're going to have a lot of quiet
12:13you're going to be around people who
12:15also enjoy the quiet
12:20i'm not excluding like if you enjoy
12:22working with people i'm not saying tech
12:28it just made me different it just
12:32i don't want to deter anyone here you
12:34know what i mean i don't want to be like
12:35well you're an extrovert you're going to
12:40i don't know but you just have to know
12:41when to flip it on and off
12:43what i've found just looking at
12:45different careers is if it's a really
12:49where there's just like hundreds of
12:50thousands or millions of jobs it really
12:53doesn't matter all that much what your
12:55personality type is because you're gonna
12:57find like a sub career within there
12:59that's gonna fit your personality so for
13:02there was uh one girl i knew who went
13:04into accounting and she didn't really
13:05like doing bookkeeping
13:07and you know she thought she wanted to
13:09do it she didn't like bookkeeping but
13:11there's so many accounting jobs out
13:12there she was able to find one that she
13:14really liked and it was more in the
13:16recruiting side of things right where
13:18she's interacting with people and there
13:20you go like if you go into certain
13:22careers that are extremely niche you
13:24might find yourself stuck there
13:26but if you go into one where there's
13:28just like a lot of subfields there's a
13:30lot more flexibility so i kind of
13:32usually recommend people do that if
13:35they're not 100 sure what they want to
13:37do because it just gives them more
13:41no i completely agree with that
13:46upon tons of jobs i'm sure there you
13:49could do business and then do like the
13:51business planning and that's or work
13:52with stakeholders for it infrastructure
13:54they're they're definitely jobs
13:58yeah for everyone in i.t some people who
14:04and you could definitely do career
14:07into i.t with just a few skills gain a
14:10few skills and then you can make a
14:12transition to iit pretty easily also
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