But I want to say around 2014 at this time I was in rtin going to Louisiana Tech and I was a kice major wasn’t focused I wasn’t passionate about it and I was spending my wheels rent was rent is real cheap in ring so you don’t have
To make a lot of money to live in rting and so I’m a fireman I’m doing my thing and one day I just was you know what I I need a fresh start I’m out here going to school maybe this quarter maybe that quarter hanging out doing this and that
And I tell people the club lights came on for me so I left and then that’s when I got to Best Buy Best Buy gave me an opportunity to move to Dallas I was making little to no money I was selling home theater TV speakers you name it but
I became a home theater expert your salary jumped like from going from a knock to network admin man crazy even with so when I left T-Mobile I was making $11 an hour to take 60 calls a day so I went from 22,000 to 50 and from
Presidio to where I am now at ADT now I’m making 0 I also saw you talking about Job hopping I think I’ve been with ADT almost a year now I’ve gained enough knowledge to for sure gain get a job somewhere else making six figures but the way they’re investing in me right
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Don’t want to miss out so if you’re interested in starting your Cloud career use my link that’ll be in the description I just thought about what I want to start off with what’s up you remember back in the day at whatever apartment you stayed in at tick University Crossing you went way back
With that one it’s probably not even named that anymore you remember now you’re sitting at your mix at the time cuz everybody you were stunned back then but you weren’t stun you already know we was on that Hawaii punch in takav vaka yeah yeah that’s a throwback there man never again
Never again calling the Goon juice yeah that’s what we called it my cousin them call it hunch punch and and see my cousin Pierre he taught me a trick back then we used to get a sck botle we would bu the sck obviously drink it but then after that for the
Kickbacks we would put the Tako vak in it half water half Taca nobody ever knew the difference hey speaking of do you remember every it was everybody first year at Graham and Tech right we was hanging with uh Nisha and all them Courtney Bruce okay and it was a Howard okay
Graham homecoming remember Evan was down there and he was about man I got that sck man I can’t wait till I get back to the crib drink the Sarat and he went in the freezer the Sarat was frozen because he ain’t realize that I think Bruce
Actually drunk and and fill it back up with some water man I’ll never forget that I’ll never forget oh yeah when y’all was online what about it because it’s a million stories with that just the fact that I’ll be trying to sleep and I hear y’all down the hall in Mitch what they
Doing down there shanting that’s the funny thing like when your school not that it’s big enough but ain’t that big who online yeah man that Greek experience was something else but one thing I will say about Alpha is it taught me that you got a lot of diverse
Brothers out there and there was some people that I pledged with that I probably never would have even spoken to if we didn’t pledge together and it just really open my eyes up about who you can fellowship with who you can network with and build with and things like that so
That was a really cool time lot of funny times and great memories with that man so definitely man and speaking of that hey y’all listen the people that’s listening to the audio version of this the song that Jerry came out to go you going to make me in a
Minute see the thing is over there so I do not I’m not able to freaking do my gunshots I would definitely hit the gunshots right now I got to ask him how many shots he had that night before he came out that was a long we didn’t go to sleep that night I
Bet y’ didn’t we didn’t we I I’ll wait till you cut the music off but man that brings back memories for sure that was 2011 2011 wow bro so yeah we had our probate that night we stayed up all night and we drove to Houston because our regional convention was the next day so nobody went to sleep y was lit I bet y’all crashed oh yeah I ain’t gonna talk we ain’t gonna talk
About what happened to Joey but I’ll tell you that off camera I proba can guess let’s just say Joey was spent we gonna say that but yeah we had a good time in Houston man we had a real good time that was a good first weekend being
Alpha definitely so that’s why I said you know what now that I think about it Josh had you beat he had he had me beat I don’t know I don’t know I can’t really remember specifically but I give it to him I think he had you beat because I
Know for a fact joshu was tow up oh you saying like on on the turnup level okay yeah he definitely you could tell when he was stepping you could tell he was feeling it yeah yeah okay I can definitely get with that cuz cuz we both
Are too I’ll say I don’t want to say introverted because you was down there with me at Tech I definitely wasn’t introverted but not like somebody likes to I think everybody’s introverted but I think in their own way they know when they want to go talk and when they don’t
Right the difference between you and Josh is actually a quiet person in general because being and here used to work with Miss Kelly at the College of Engineering got you me him and Andrea got three of us okay to work over there for her okay let me see what episode are
This be okay it’s 110 let me intro real quick but welcome back to the texal Talk podcast the number one Tech and career podcast on YouTube I’m your host HD and we have a special guest today he’s been on the Pod before but he’s come back
Again we had to the same last name went to the same High School the same college and I wanted to bring back my guy Jerry Davis people on the patreon I actually tell you what his nickname is once you subscribe to the patreon you forgot what
His nickname is but uh I want to welcome in to the the studio man we poding today as y’all heard we bringing back some memories and we’re gonna have fun we’re gonna talk about life careers business everything you know how we do so if you’re watching right now on YouTube hit
The thumbs up buttonit subscribe button hit the Bell icon so you can be notified when I dropping stuff and if you listen on Apple podcast or Spotify please go ahead and follow us leave us a review it’s going to help us out them downloads and the algorithm I was talking and I
Thought about some other stuff that we didn’t cover okay recently shout out to hunson they did good this year they lost in the the first round I think they at least they did better than y’all did against hunsville yeah I’m gonna say us but I think we just was happy to be
There that was a weird year cuz we had the teammate rest in peace T win that pass and years prior to Huntington’s football program was just a mess it just seemed after that death the team really just came together and put forth their best effort cuz everybody knows going
Back and looking at those team even the bad years Huntington has some of the best athletes in the city and it’s like if when it’s always been coaching I I wouldn’t even blame it on I guess the root of it you could say is coaching but
When we got it together it was hard to beat hard to beat us and that’s why we used to have to go to Marshall to play a non- district game because the Benton Green Oaks boah High if they didn’t have to play us they didn’t want to play us
Because they knew we had the talent shout out Huntington I would love to see y’all go to state one day and win it but you came up short but hey I’ve been waiting for a team to do better than my year my senior year and what’s that I
Think like 03 with Jason F finals yeah yeah both our teams with the quarterfinals I’ve been waiting for a team to get to the semis and well Hunton is still they got a good prr I think I think their first graduating class was wasn’t like 74 you talking about a
School that’s not even 50 years old yeah they’ll get there and then you look at North Louisiana football it’s so many 5A and 4A programs the talent is so spread out across the city it’s not like West Monroe where everybody goes to one school that’s something you got to
Consider too so when that does happen it’s gonna be a big deal definitely our school like to show out for homecoming which I’m going next year 15 year yeah see I got messed up with Co like my team Year got messed up with like it was trash yeah that’s right damn but shout
Out to us cuz we did have best homecoming what I seen from Facebook like you felt like somebody they went to college the way they was doing homecoming had a parade and everything so shout out to them they tailgated this year I don’t know if they did that last
Year but they tailgated and everything it was awesome and I really wanted to go this year but I got stuck in traffic by the time I got the sh report cuz this was my dad’s birthday weekend so by the time I got the sh report it was dead so
I it was like 9 o’ already and I was like all right I’m old time to go home yeah man anyway especially me and G Smo occasionally we text each other we like took shirt in K rock man before I get off the football subject I want to laugh at some funny
Stuff the reason why I said coaching it ain’t the fact that the coaches weren’t good is we never had any consistency coach like my I think y’all might have had coach green maybe for two years being a head coach yeah every year I was there we had a different head coach six
Or seven coaches when I was there that can be tough too man and especially you got kids from different parts of the city and it’s and that’s where I think I say his name but that’s why I think Coach B went wrong cuz I do believe
Coach bird was a good coach I just think he was so out of touch he did not know how to reach any of the kids and he lost them immediately and that was his downfall so I you say I wanted to bring it up bro hey I was going to put on the
Thing I was like I was gonna ask first of all I was gonna ask about that could you talk about the situation about the like what made y’all want to throw the eggs oh the egg throwing so that was going into my senior year we so we were
Practicing for seven on seven it’s hot every day gas was crazy that’s the first time we’ve ever seen gas hit $3 of course when we start to become adults right everything start getting more expensive and we were just bored after practice one day man and Courtney was I
I ain’t gonna blame it on Courtney but it was Courtney Kenny big white n CJ right I want to say CJ was there and we had done it before so this we just happen to get caught this time but anyway we was just after practice one
Day we were all just hanging out and we were just like y’all want to go throw some EGS and yeah pulled up to Walmart on the Pine Road got them and then long story short we got caught kids at home don’t throw eggs right we ain’t gonna go through the
Intricacies of how y’all got caught that whole story is actually pretty funny we didn’t seen a lot of funny stuff right shout out to all the coaches shout out to coach bird I used to laugh all the time he’ be like he’s in the one and
He’s in the five and all that yelling and stuff what is he do I I think I asked Joey but I think he’s back to writing now like for the paper I don’t think he’s coaching I know he was at lyola for a while lyola and bird right
Yeah I think he went back to his dad was a big sports writer for shreport times and Jerry bird Senor or whatever so that’s how everybody knew him and I ain’t going to say that’s how he climbed the ranks but he had he yeah he had a connection already to Sports in that
Area so but I say like I said we didn’t mean to turn this into a sports pod but ironically though like after y’all left things actually did get better before he got into that fight man he’s not a bad coach he like you said he was out of touch to kind of
Because a situation where he had less time to coach Prime see what’s going on you still got to get your people in there to change the culture cuz hey but that that o line garbage I probably would let sh do play for the rest of the season and that’s
How trash them boys is yeah man that’s something I really I really was rooting for them and along with a lot of people I didn’t want them to leave Jackson State to be honest talking to some friends and stuff that it made sense because it’s hard to get top recruits to
Have options to go to these laid universities nice dorms nice everything programs if they interested in getting the education and it’s like Jackson State just wasn’t offering that and hopefully they will one day shout out to HBCU even though I never attended one but shout out to them more empowerment
To y’all but that’s ultimately why a lot of people justify him leaving but I would have loved to see him stay there and beat a Alabama or a USC I think could have happened if they would have did it right by the money that’s a stuff people was always just focusing on oh
Pre he left he left he no they was not doing right with the money yeah that’s the biggest day attendance ever been once he came down there I agree I agree yeah when you got somebody like that and it’s Tech is in the same boat they didn’t want to pay Sunny Dykes they
Didn’t want to pay what was his name dere dly yeah they didn’t want to pay him and both of those those guys went to power five schools they didn’t do great but Dykes went to TCU and made national championship he lost real bad but he made it but you talking about think
About what Sunny Dykes did with us though they was the number two office in the country behind Oregon and that’s crazy to say how many people got drafted that year three or four I want to say qu thinking anybody else but those were the two main too those guys some defense I
Think we had a defensive player that too shout out to Leger sne on the sheets he from Tech Hey listen hey y’all look we fin to start the P I promise he ain’t text me about football in a while and he know why oh because the Broncos beat the Chiefs the real
Reason why I haven’t been texting anybody about football lately is because the Chiefs have been really dominant over the years and I don’t want to be that person that every time the Chiefs win you just know that text coming and I’m about to be annoying now when the
Chiefs was bad and they would win I I would be texting everybody cuz it didn’t happen as much but now I’m used to it I try to be a good sport you know I didn’t text you either because I’m one of a few people that’s a realistic fan yeah and
As always if you’ve seen this even last year when they was bad Broncos always played good against the Chiefs they do they do because the Chiefs got a Target on their back that’s if any bad team is gonna play good that’s the one time they
Want to do I think a division game but too I just think they both understand each other so much I just think it’s it’s like when Peyton used to go against the Ravens and air Reed just knew how to play against Peyton Justin Sim knows how
To play against Pat and then Pat C know what he got to do and it don’t help that y’ ain’t got no legit number one no more right right and I mean same thing with you know pyton when he was in India against Taw and the Patriots you know
That was just always a dog fight you think it’s going to be a high-scoring game every time I think some of those games would be like what 14 to 17 or something like that and I’m just paraphrasing but yeah but that’s cool all right guys we F to really intro to
Pod though Jerry can you tell people a little bit about you and your background and then we’ll kind of get into to your spill of like how you made your way out to to Dallas and what made you want to get into networking yeah okay of course
I’m from Shere Port Louisiana went to HS in high school I joined the Air Force straight out of high school I was a fireman for the Air Force I really love that career it’s just at a certain point you get to see you get to see in how
Things work and how promotions work and I don’t know if people out there are familiar with civil service but uh civil service is something where when you’re hired that’s it like you that’s how you get promoted if somebody got hired a day after you you are ahead of them for life
So that’s not something I really care for but I really did enjoy being a fireman more in the military versus on the civilian side and I want to say around and I’m running over here to your next question but I want to say around 2014 at this time I was in rting going
To Louisiana Tech and I was a kice major I wasn’t focused I wasn’t passionate about it and I was spining my wheels rent was rent is real cheap in rting so you don’t have to make a lot of money to live in rting and so I’m a fireman I’m
Doing my thing and one day I just was you know what I I need a fresh start I’m out here going to school maybe this quarter maybe that quarter hanging out doing this and that and I tell people the club lights came on for me right at
The end of the night the club lights come on and you just like dang like Fun’s over then you just disperse and so that’s what my transition to Dallas really was like I just needed a fresh start and I one day I you probably notice but one day you look up in
Rusting it’s like Jerry’s gone I was always around hanging out doing this fun guy but it was just time for me to get focused and and even at that time it was time for me to get focused but I didn’t know what the focus was but I just knew
It was time for something to change so I left and then that’s when I got to Best Buy Best Buy gave me an opportunity to move to Dallas I was making little to no money I was selling home theater TV speakers you name it but I became a home
Theater expert really was Lawrence from insecure I tell people that all the time like I can relate to his story so much shout out Lawrence from insecure it’s probably like a a solid stand up smart man probably can relate to Lawrence Yeah man cuz he he if you seen insecure like
That’s that’s literally what I went through and it’s you tell people you want to do this and that and it sounds crazy until it happens right and anyways after years I want to say I was with Best Buy for what five years and then I decided I’ve always been like I remember
On one of your podcasts you were talking about how you were teching you like phones and you thought that maybe you would go into podcasting about phones and things like that I’ve always been like a te person but I never saw myself working in it and so one day I just was
Like you know what I’m real in the tech I got to have the latest phone I got to have the latest whatever you know and I was like why don’t I go to school for this and I I still didn’t know what I want to Major I picked programming and I
I had to take a network plus class at the school at um shout out to NCTC and Corinth that’s where I got my associates and computer network technology but going there my first class ironically was Network Plus and a guy named uh Mr Lions he came up to me and um after
Class and for whatever reason he pulled me to the side and he was like he I see the potential in you and he was like you’re doing well in class but he I want to tell you something he was like programmers make good money or they get
Or they secure jobs at Google and things like that that’s where the good money is in programming and maybe he was pigeon H holding but at the same time he explained to me that networking everybody needs a network administrator everybody needs a network engineer not everybody needs a programmer what’s a
Example I don’t know brookers like brookers has a IT department that has Network administrators Network Engineers not so much a programmer because they may not have use for that maybe somewhere higher up in the hierarchy they do but it’s not always a need for that at every company and so he was just
Trying to because he was somebody that was a veteran that um also you know went through things that I went through spun his was spinning his wheels went to college got out of college and he found his way into networking and found some success so I think that’s why he
Ultimately pulled me to the side and got me in networking from then on I went to go get my CCNA and here I am today man here I am and I had a few speed bumps in between there but I’m sure I’m taking over your interview I let you ask your
Questions well y’all come and talk and make it easier on me ironically before we start the Pod we were talking about lack of exposure to it networking security you name it in streetport and I did a article about that before and I was talking about that’s one of
The main reasons why diversity is low in it if you go back to street board the only type of IT jobs we saw might have been Teleperformance or at the time was us support and maybe some other type of Center things right every couple of
Years I go on my Facebook and I reshare this post about if you tired of working the your support like holl at me so I can help you out for real cuz all those people have built on some skills that can make more money and they getting underpaid but they think they getting
Paid a lot because it’s Street and you’re right they didn’t even they didn’t really even pitch like they had no they I found out but they did have people like at the career center they was like some people get some networking certifications stuff like that however they didn’t really Market
It right to us I think by the time I found out about that stuff it’s like it’s about time to be done with school my electus was wood shop well then I think those are my two electors in weightlifting of course once you start playing football they you in that six star
Weightlifting but that’s cool I want to go back to when we did this our episode years ago at that time I believe you were working in the knock for T-Mobile I always tell people about not it’s one of those speed bumps right I always tell people about the knock life
And I say it’s one of the lower bar the entry roles depending on where you go you’ll either be learning some stuff or you’ll just be there but at least you can say you worked in in the knock right how was your experience working in a
Knock man in a T-Mobile knock I took 60 calls a day I was constantly answering the phone and the primary role of that position in the knock was you would you weren’t customer facing or anything like that but the text in the field they would be working on the cell towers 5G
LT or whatever and they would be doing maintenance and it would bring down the connection so they would call you back after the maintenance was done you would have to pull up the specific Tower make sure everything’s good to go if it’s good cool calls over if not you got to stay
On the phone with the tech go through some troubleshooting steps till you get the tower back up or escalated to the radio access team it was a pretty thankless uneventful job man but like you said sometimes you have to take that first step to say you had that
Experience because a lot you in a lot of your podcast you talk about resume writing and it’s some people look for they may be looking for hiring a network administrator but they want somebody with knock experience they don’t care what you did at the knock they just want
To know that you’ve been in that environment and that’s sometimes that’s you do what you got to do to get your foot in the door but not a fun job I didn’t learn a lot I remember you I watch your podcast all the time so sorry
I keep referencing them but I’m a fan man and I’m proud of you honestly somebody like I said we went to high school together and looking back on it I didn’t see you or me doing anything like this maybe I didn’t that doesn’t mean we I wasn’t saying we wouldn’t be
Successful I just didn’t see us doing something in it just a afterthoughts but anyway yeah so anyway get your foot in the door do what you got to do and go from there yeah yeah I think I want to touch on what you said seeing like you
Or I doing what we’re doing now flip the switch on for me is when I switched my major from architecture I I remember that now I remember but what really did it was and I I’m either going to go to Rustin and do that episode or have him
Come out here or something but Mr Eddie big guy that works at the College of Business black man designed like the whole building with the smart stuff for the professors the networking all that you know how to do all that stuff that’s when I say oh okay he do this I can do
This and that’s kind of just went from there learning whatever I could learn and going from there and think about it our school was so much of an engineering school when it came to sometimes it really was no reason to even go to the job here to be honest because the jobs I
Was possibly interviewing for were not Tech related the one time I had a chance at an internship I lost out to it to on to Kim by like a little bit really yeah is Kim in Tech I didn’t know she was I didn’t know that Kim actually does and
Kim you better watch this episode i’ been telling you come on Kim specifically she’s in healthcare she does security with the system epic I did not know Kim was in it the same major I did not know that same major and then where you know she stayed a year after
And did that a masters in information assurance interesting shout out to Kim man I did not know you were in it yeah so yeah definitely come on podcast I’ve been telling I was telling her come on say her boo might be watching I’ve been telling her come on the show telling you
But that’s really how I did it I think it was the thing like when you said about maybe like playing around in school and stuff it’s like one of the things I got two younger brothers in school and working and stuff now and I try to stress to them like meeting
Different people your network the circle people you meet you never know where they work or who their parents know CU I think that’s a big one like everybody if you I think I did good to moving I moved like off campus my last quarter ctown Road shout out to I was
Living with uh Mason and mares D Mars and I think like I forgot the other dude name but I probably wouldn’t have made it staying there like three or four years cuz it was jumping the first night I moved there we playing drinking games
And I had 8 o’clock the next day yeah I never lived on campus and that might have been a mistake but I never lived on campus my whole time in resting so no on Camp apartments that was cool you can walk right to lamb bright and and right
And Harold will tell you today me and Harold of course are best friends but he’ll tell you today that he never wanted to ruin me because he said he would never be focused and I mean it’s it’s some truth to it like I said man I
I did waste some time in resting But ultimately everything worked out so I I wouldn’t go back and change a thing bro that’s what I say too people say what you I was like I don’t know cuz that’s how I got to where I am now everything I
Experienced messing up on classes or fing or having the opportunity to get like a pluses and cheat like having I’ve never told that story on the Pod but if you know the right people in school you can get them test that’s why I tell people grad don’t mean much yeah yeah I
Specifically remember test getting passed around all the time and a lot of people don’t know is that like a lot of fraternities not the divine nine but a lot of fraternities that have been there for years and years they have vaults with t football players yeah they have
Vaults oh yeah yeah the coaches keep stuff for these guys and yeah so like you’re right grades do not mean a lot when I tell you so the hardest class we took at Tech and Judy Kim whoever else that we are major with they can attested this quantitative
Analysis AKA statistics super hard but everybody had the test yeah that’s your that’s like your intro to networking right to find those test but I ironically I actually wanted to learn how to do this stuff so I actually it was a I hate to generalize but it was this African dude
I for what his name was super smart he knew how to do the stuff he taught me I one test I took off the stuff I learned from him and I got everything right but wrong what I mean is I was like writing a wrong sign or something on there so
That’s how I made my answer wrong but I knew how to do it right because I wanted to learn that I was like it was no benefit of me like just doing that because I was like I might need xar one day even though we got Excel and powerbi
And Tableau but that’s just a a segue that we was just talking about school and like doing all these other things right but I want to get into like normally when you work at a knock like I said we don’t do much how hard was it for you to interview and
Land something else knowing that maybe you didn’t know some of the things that were on job descriptions or that they asked you in interviews okay knowing that you didn’t know some of the things they may be asking you on job interviews I recently just had a thread that I put
Up about people segueing from support and how it’s hard for them to get into cyber because they answer from a support type of thinking how were you able to translate that from coming from typically just answering call from the text and I’m reading off what we got to
Do to okay tell me about this or land or VLAN or how would you set network segmentation like how was you able to do that kind of just uh try eror man because you go to that first interview and then they may ask you something about like you said tell me about you
You would think that they would just ask you what’s the definition of a VLAN but they want to know more than that they want to know what happens when you connect a computer to a switch vague question and I won’t say that’s a vague question that’s a pretty B A vag
Question because it’s like how what you mean it’s specifically what you want to know but they go beyond your like your basic what’s the word I’m looking what’s how can I phrase this like your basic just Network knowledge and terminology and I think that’s a learning curve that
A lot of people have to get past and you really have to Deep dive because it is even though they’re looking for that knock experience again going back to my first point they don’t care what you did in the knock they want to know that you’re prepared to take that next step
Like how have you been improving yourself how have you been gaining knowledge around the world of networking to take that next spot to be a network administrator how can I am I going to be able to trust you to go into a IDF and make configurations on this switch and I
Take down the whole building so that type of thing is is a big part of of that transition and and it can be a lot at first but to those out there that are watching this like when you go into those interviews and you fail don’t feel
Bad and and I say that lightly because you’re going to feel bad but what I’m saying is recollect yourself pick up the pieces and continue to build upon what you know and continue to learn and go from there and then you’ll come back and you’ll kill it and it’s always going to
Work out if you’re dedicated to something if you’re passionate about something and you put the time in it’s always going to work out for you the job I hold currently I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now I’m in a perfect position and I interviewed and reached
Out about jobs and ultimately I’m right where I need to be I’m learning I’m like a sponge right now and so I I couldn’t be happier so don’t take failure as as what is Def excuse me as what it’s defined as take it as a learning experience and grow from it yeah that’s
What I tell a lot of them I sayy just make sure one of the good things is I record I have them record their interviews now so now I’m able to listen to everything they saying I was like I ain’t like that I don’t like that you
Didn’t answer this because they ask you this and you start talking about something else slow down I also tell them hey it’s a thing and I did a little bit in this interview here because I was talking fast but typically if you notice I’m pausing before I talk so I limit the
Way I say like some people do this my client the other day if you watch this like yeah I was doing that but he kept on saying you know how this is right he was saying right after everything and when somebody says they’re trying to convince you of thinking like they’re
Right I was like stop saying that like pause want that validation I was like pause and and just say all your sentences out without if you don’t know what you’re gonna say just pause a little bit it’s okay they’ll understand everybody get nervous doing interviews I get nervous doing
Interviews it’s it’s cool it’s perfectly nor if you ain’t nervous you ain’t trying to do good I hate panel interviews and I know that’s like a big thing in it and just no getting around it but I hate them I hate them luckily at my last job we didn’t have our direct
Our director was supposed to be in the interview but he wasn’t so I’m glad he wasn’t but I just hate panel interviews I really like one to ones because I feel like in panel interviews you get a question right and then I feel like somebody else is listening to you answer
And then they try to Snowball the question into something more difficult for you versus that person just going on to what they were going to ask next so anyway like say part of it you got to be prepared for it but I I prefer one to ones yeah I’m indiff on panels it
Depends sometimes you got to work the room that works I know also for example most of the places instead of doing the panels they’ll say okay you need to set aside four hours of your day and you’ll do your different interviews throughout the the day so that’s how Gman Sach was
Gman Sach was like I just knocked out like all my interviews that day and then Microsoft was to to interviews a day once I got to the loop what’s I was just about to ask you and I hate to like switch it up on your podcast but what’s the most strenuous like interview
Process you’ve been through genuis I would say in recent memory I probably would say it would have to be I probably say it have to be Microsoft and I don’t think it was like strenuous I think it was just more so me trying to prepare for it at that
Time trying to prepare for a 10 Ro when I was working a non-technical role it was hard cuz I had went from a a year of doing stuff I knew how to do to doing different things and that’s what kind of made that hard but after I got situated
I did I did decent enough I knew I didn’t do the best I could right but I got like validation how many interviews did you have to do I did so that Loop is four and then before that I also had the interview I think with the manager so
You can count like maybe five in total wow yeah Beyond two or three man and I know these big companies they put you through the the loop but I just think two after two or three that’s excessive technically it’s like in rounds so technically it’s only three rounds so
It’s not too bad typical typically you have phone screening yeah you have you talk to the H manag or somebody then you have like your technical interview so Loop counts is like that third round technical like the first interview of the loop was technical then the second
Ep the second interview was more so on the principles of the company and then the third one was I forgot what that one was like and then the fourth one wasn’t really technical it was just me talking to the the director who I had already previously connected with on
LinkedIn and then like for example I probably say that my Microsoft one was probably harder than Amazon I’ve I’ve interviewed like Amazon like twice okay and it went hard I just messed up if anybody if you watching if you ever have an interview coming up with Amazon pay attention to their learning
Principles and make sure you have your Star Stories down for a lot of different scenarios that’s about the only way you’re going to do good in that if you don’t they gonna see that they G see that email the next day say sorry we moving on I’m sorry they like big on
Personal development and things like that versus like your technical knowledge or both but more so you definitely gotta knock those learning principles out the park because that’s what they care about those a lot got you you can sometimes hit those on ahead and not be the best in that role but still
Probably land it just because cuz they gonna train you anyway so sometimes I’ve been telling people I had really got no adate training in years they expect you to hit the ground running yeah depending on what role you going into if you’re going into a senior role and sometimes they’re hiring you
Because they’re having trouble with something and they’re looking for that senior person to do that and again that’s why I’m in a perfect spot because my next step could be a role like that but I know I’m gaining Knowledge from so many different directions I already know
What your your next step going to be I sent you on the job scription you did that was like a week or so ago right and at free gam is even though you feel like you’re in a perfect spot now never stop interviewing yeah you never know and
I’ll tell you off camera why but so now you’re a network administrator and for the people that’s listening and watching what exactly is a network administrator in your own words in my own words a network administrators let’s break it down into tiers so you have your tier one people that anytime there’s any
Small issue with the network they’re taking that call hey unplug this plug it back in try this try that your network administrators are your people that actually control the day-to-day operations of the network there’s any configurations that need to be done if there’s any outages any serious outages
Beyond that’s not dealing with the ISP because again you’re tier one people if there is an issue with the ISP they’re the ones that are going to back out and get that ticket open with them before they even talk to us so that’s in a nutshell just a short summary of it but
Basically overseeing the network maintaining the network and keeping everything going we basically PVE the highway to all these different branches of applications and things that people have going on at their jobs to keep the whole network connected got it what was your salary jump like from going from a
Knock to network admin man crazy even with so when I left T-Mobile I was making $111 an hour to take 60 calls a day I went to another company named prido yeah and that was also a similar knock type it was like a mesh between knock and network Administration that
Was the first time I was actually logging into Cisco devices on the job remotely and looking at configuration not so much changing anything but seeing if different rout routing protocols were up or down seeing things like this that was my first time doing that so I went
From making $11 an hour is what roughly $22,000 a year so I went from 20 2 2,000 to 50 and from Presidio to where I am now at ADT now I’m making 80 and that’s not the big $160,000 a year job a lot of people I
Hear I I see you going back and forth with people on socials all the time oh make 200k tomorrow type thing and and I also saw you on and again bringing up your previous podcast again I also saw you talking about Job hopping I think I’ve been with ADT almost a year now
I’ve gained enough knowledge to for sure gain get a job somewhere else making six figures but the way they’re investing in me right now and everything that I’m learning like I’m I’m locked in and I want to stay here and once my knowledge hits a cap then I’ll make a decision if
If they want to promote me or whatever and I I really do love ADT and I I do think I have a good future there but again I’m just a sponge right now I’m not even thinking about that because the way they’re investing in my knowledge and the equipment I’m getting to
Configure and get my hands on it’s amazing it’s mindblowing yeah those skills actually will take you far so I feel like ADT is like your Optive and I’ll say that what you did is something that everybody not willing to do everybody not willing to take the amount of money you took in the
Beginning just to get your foot into it right because everybody is more concerned with being perceived a certain way versus actually just learning something yeah and that’s one of the things man you really I say the I say the club like coming on phase right but
You after the club come on you got to go into your duck phase and and focus on you and really start to work on something once you realize what that is you you can’t you can’t worry about how people perceive you or like my dad would
Say keeping up with the Joneses I know a lot of black kids have been told that but once you lock in and focus and really find your Niche then everything’s going to work itself out but you definitely got to humble yourself and take that step back and and pick up your
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Got it at at T-Mobile and it’s funny because T-Mobile they had a network administrator position that was paying $16 an hour and it required a CCNA and they didn’t want to hire me and so I was like and that that was a blessing and disguising I was looking for any pay
Bump possible Right CU it’s like mid pandemic so I’m looking for anything so I was I would have gladly taken that but they didn’t want to hire me so that end up working out to my benefit before I I think a month before I graduated with my
Associates I got an offer from Presidio and they took me on and man that was just that was a huge relief to get that job man because I always knew like my next bigger and and again 50 $50,000 is good money but compared to 11 that’s a
Big jump and I could finally breathe again and I finally and I touched on it a little earlier in the podcast just being somebody with my dad for 90% % of my life was in Administration in the school system everybody that know me I’m Jerry Davis Jun a lot is expected of me
And in my early mid 20s I was falling short of those expectations so for me to it finally start coming together man that that was huge for me and then just to even looking back on that I’ve grown so much since then and then my Outlook
On the future is amazing so I’m excited for what the future holds man and I couldn’t love my career field anymore I guess that love grows every day but just trying to paint a picture of it like I’m in love with my career man yeah funny
You said that cuz I was driving on the way here and I thought about something and I was saying I believe young people especially in Tech I think the earlier they can get higher salaries the better because that will help you throughout your career of not being underpaid right the episode that’s
Dropping on Monday with me and chenet we’re talking about I I I already dropped the pretty much like the intro of and how she s had one of the most interesting talks she had with a candidate was they said hey look I want nothing less than 725k in total comp and
She was like what am I doing wrong that I Ain AC like that but it’s is one of them things you never when when you start meeting different people and these different companies and there is a a strategy behind actually Landing high paying rolls outside of paying attention
To just whatever the title is there’s a strategy behind that but Jermaine say you should start getting uncomfortable with the salary that you requesting when they trying to talk to you right you should start getting uncomfortable about it some people are nervous and they are undercut theel because they don’t want
Somebody to say no go in the mirror and say this what I want everybody remember like you remember when you step to your fiance yeah exactly you probably was nerves man I’m I’m go ahead and I’m G get it yeah man and that’s one thing I’m glad
You encourage people to negotiate my dad actually disagree with me negotiating and that just goes to show you somebody that’s old school working in the school system type thing and he just he was like man that salary they offer you that’s that’s not bad money and you getting more responsibility and blah
Blah blah he was just so against it and my dad my dad he’s a very smart dude and it’s just but he’s not right all the time and ultimately he was proud of me and proud just to see another decision that I made on my own workout but yeah I
Definitely negotiate that salary you can’t be scared of that so now one of the questions I had for you you said something else earlier that I don’t even know what the acronym stands for you said IDF but what are some skills that you needed to hone in
On for you in order to be successful at this role I would say number one patience because I think going into that role is almost and I was talking to Herold about it um in networking especially if you’re environment is critical right because at ADT that’s basically controlling people’s ability
To monitor alarms house fires houses being broken into number of things so you bring down a network like that trying to work too fast you could make a really big problem so patience number one uh number two consistency I think you should get into the mode of and
Notice I haven’t said anything really technical yet but you should get into the mode of doing the same thing the same way I read a quote the other day that said the way you do something today is the way you’re always going to do it and I think that’s something I really
Took the heart going into work every day um but getting on the more technical side of it learning your environment learning your network topology learning your subnets but when you get in there Enterprise networking is so much more different than the labs you used to setting up and so learning that is just
Going to blow your mind anyway seeing like a slash 20 subnet and seeing different network addresses you like how is this talking when this network this third octet isn’t the same as this one because you’re so used to doing your basic lab stuff and you may know how of
Subnet but you haven’t seen it at in work and in an Enterprise environment so things like that man just take it one step at a time and what Mr Lions used to say in our networking classes is the only way to eat an elephant is one bite
At a time so you learn as you go and and really your seniors are a big part of that because because you can get to a job and sometimes people be snobs and they don’t they expect you to know everything but that’s another reason why I love ADT because have people that 177
20 years in the game that are just willing to answer what would be viewed by most as a silly question and that that’s really valuable as well so just soaking it all in and man I’m loving it so right I only think I only consider some a silly question I really don’t
Consider anything a silly question it would only be if you didn’t check the documentation then that’s when I say okay you could have looked that up because it’s right here just put it in Confluence if you don’t if you don’t see it then I’ll help you if you can find it
In Google that’s another thing I put in the thread yesterday I was like you trying to be as the interviewer just say I’m I’m not familiar with that I don’t know but if you gave me chance to I know I can find an info like just tell them
Right all us use Google at work anyway exactly yeah one of my one of my seniors is he hammers on me all the time cuz I like to memorize stuff and he’s that’s great and he was like I don’t really care about you memorizing stuff I care
About you knowing where to look when you don’t know that’s what’s really important that that’s a good point you brought up so everybody uses Google atw Google is definitely your friends and speaking of what you’re talking about you pretty much you’re I would say home security that’s the industry that you’re
In you actually now can nich to home security right yeah like specifically with networking but you touched on something that I touched on in my video this week you understand the whole part of your job of what it affects parents or family at home kids are in their room Network goes down now
They don’t know a Berk’s in the house something might be happen to the kids so all these type of things can happen right everybody’s not doing their job and I want to say that because I touched back on reason why T-Mobile stay getting breached and stuff because they cheat
Yeah that’s why people don’t care about their job what netw working person going care about that job they getting paid 16 an hour when we know for a fact the people elsewhere getting really paid from T-Mobile because they took over Sprint yeah like stop playing with me
Pay me yeah even when I was there I was a contract worker half their knock is contracted out so I I can believe it that they may be cheap not to talk bad about them again they gave me my first opportunity and things like that he not
Going to talk about you I’m going to talk about you cuz most companies who got their stuff contracted out that’s not a good sign if you don’t have any consistency there that means it’s a lot of turnover and that’s when you see that you’ll typically know that’s why certain
Things happen because Toyota over there in uh Plano they got really a really nice campus over there it’s right down the street from JP Morgans you did a you did an interview with a guy that worked there that like didn’t he write a program or something and got like a lot
Of was it him them or GM oh you talking about speaking of shout out my my guy Xavier he will actually be back on the Pod December okay awesome he from Detroit he probably gonna have his Buffs on in the interview too yeah I know man
Yeah you told me he he wrote something for them and they broke him off really well so shout out to him man when’s the last time you spoke with uh Joey sometimes well he’s on Twitter sometimes he him on Facebook sometimes outside of that I had talked to him in a
While typically I I I run into him sometimes if I’m in uh streetport did you know that he’s he’s in education right in streetport but he’s also pushing real big going back to our exposure thing but he’s also pushing for uh kids to get into it and he actually
Just recently got two kids a cyber security scholarship full ride so yeah shout out to him I just wanted to say that on the podcast because Joey is really doing some great things and he’s at woodon high school right now in sh Port so next time you talk to him bring
That up and he’ll tell yall about because he’s really passion about it I think he probably just got busy andot or something cuz remember him and I was arguing about that at your house and I’m like bro how you gonna tell me like I get what you
Say I was like it can get a little bullheaded sometimes that’s always him but his heart is good shout out to listen how I got the school and back and my groceries I’m the type of person if you was rocking with me when I was walking around campus or something you
Took me home you took me to the store as long as you ain’t cross me you good with forever you need something just get at me that’s how I operate like everybody from back then yeah it’s a good mindset to have if you do something low down to
Me then it’s a rap play it yourself because not having me in your network that ain’t gonna work out that good for you truth hurts man hey how would your dad describe what you do for work how would my dad describe what I do for work
My dad is a country dude so let me see how you put this in words he probably would just tell people I work on computers honestly and my mom so she works at she works at the streetport tourist bureau downtown you know the place that’s by the festival
Applause with the big mural on the side the mty paint she works there so they actually have a IT guy so she has a better understanding of what I do but my dad would just tell you oh he works with computers or something like that working the air condition that’s what he saying
Something like what about your fi say what what you do I I was I would think she would describe it pretty well cuz actually I I text her not too long ago and I was like I was being short cuz I was like hey I’m
Doing some work in the DC I’m going to call you back and she was like all right and then so when we got on the phone later I was like did you know what I was talking about when you when I said DC she was like I know it’s a Data Center
And I was like yeah okay cool cool so she she has a good grip on on what I do so she was describe it to the team and that’s a even more new skill set working in the data center oh oh yeah man like I said the exposure I’m getting right now
Is crazy like I is data center out here yeah it’s in Irving so that’s one of the main reasons they wanted to bring me on is because the team is getting older and they want to bring somebody in young that they can train and learn the the environment and eventually it work the
Whole thing if everything works out right and Lord say the same I I would love to stay with ADT and make a career there but but yeah the exposure and the equipment I get to work on and configure man it’s pretty wild so shout out to ADT
So what were some challenges that you dealt with coming from a knock background into being a network ad again just understanding Enterprise networks understanding you know what a switch is what a router is but they have management switches they have switches that you just plug devices into so you
Can reach them so you can configure from the house or whatever learning about firewalls I’ve never dealt with firewalls in my life I’ve always been a route switch guy and so now I’m working with Palo AO firewall so just transitioning from the knock and just doing that layer one troubleshooting
Going to actually configuring the stuff it it can be overwhelming but you just continue to have that confidence about yourself and confidence enough where you can ask questions and not feel dumb right and like I said and that also goes back to again your team has to encourage
That for you to thrive because a lot of teams can be uh condescending when you come to them with questions it’s unfortunate but it happens but I’m fortunate enough to have a good team around me to to help me in that cool so at a high level could you talk about any
Type of projects or anything that you’ve gotten a chance to work on being like a network admin now yeah weekly we’re just about configuring because ADT right they have their residential offices all throughout the country I won’t say weekly I would say at least once a month
We’re standing up a network for a site that’s moving or whatever that may be selling selling ADT services but we’re standing up those networks are send out so that that’s basic the project my career is the project and I really enjoy it man and and that’s what we do on a
Dayto day now on the day data center side those setting up that redundancy between all of those devices core routers core switches back to the internet provide or the isps that’s another big project we work on or continue to I won’t say work on but continue to maintain and upgrade and
Things like that as time goes on so okay that’s what’s up now here’s like some fun questions if somebody wants to be a network admin and they don’t have no experience like what would you recommend them to do I would recommend them To honestly just I guess from my experience I would recommend them try to find some type of at least Associates program that has a true path of network because like NCTC just their program is great we talk about school a lot and we say oh I learned I didn’t
Learn anything to helped me with my job it’s like the complete opposite with me at NCTC they literally took me in they had a network plus course they had a CCNA course so they literally were big on hammering these skills that you would need to learn to get into Network and
Now if you want to pay for a network plus Boot Camp or whatever that’s cool too but or just pick up a network plus book and see what you you know can pick up on yourself but for me I needed someone to teach it to me when I went to
NCTC it was just like a springboard from my knowledge from there so that’s that’s what I would recommend yeah I think a lot of people and this is this also wasn’t advertised to us as well in school Community colleg is actually where it’s at if you want to get maybe
In a tech or something because they have like even bipsy has stuff to where it’s strictly you want to get in security they got these classes for security networking bipsy also has this uh agreement with GDIT right there next door to where they are helping people get internships and working yeah most
Definitely man a lot of people I was 29 when I started at NCTC and a lot of people were in their early 30s or late 20s starting there and just trying to Pivot in the it and a lot of us have gone on to have successful careers from
That so yeah don’t shade on the associates man because I I guarante you I learned a lot more than some people did getting a four-year it degree at a four-year universi yeah and especially as a more affordable way of Education sometimes you might have to pay nothing
You may get pale grants to where you’re not coming out of pocket at all so it’s really a win is a win that’s a scenario it may be like a little shorter or a longer duration of you to get to where you want to be but hey that’s what you
Gota that’s what it comes down to when I have conversation now like how fast you trying to move you trying to go at your own pace or you trying to get here quick if you want to get here quick try this program out if not you can do the
Tortoise way kind you go slower and go at your own pace so it’s like to each his own right most definitely and speaking of Grants like 90% of my tuition and books was covered by our program they had was no longer there unfortunately but I had to pay for my
Last semester because the grant uh ended but but it was called Tech hire but it was just an amazing opportunity it’s really just a blessing honestly like everything lined up because Mr Lions also told me about that as well but I I barely had to pay for anything while I
Was there and they paid for me to take my CCNA SE plus so it it was great so NCTC was really into getting us out there into the workforce and make sure we had those basic skills so that’s good though I don’t even know if tech has
Changed in St I know three years ago three or two years ago I messaged Dr Ellis about hey I see the curriculum look about the same as it was when I was there like they are they getting any certifications with these courses they was like no I was just like why not if
I’m doing this course I should I did a networking course in my CIS major and it was pretty cool we had to design specifically we actually designed a network to be on a three-story building similar to the new College of Business I didn’t know that’s what we was doing at the time
But it was a cool project now me and I don’t know if you remember Vernon yeah I remember ver me and Vernon was in the group with these do you remember Charles and Jack I don’t I they were one was from Cameroon and I forgot the other one but
They was Africans right they decided to Bogart the whole project so B and I didn’t get a chance to talk during the project they were just talking the whole time we end up getting to see because they were all that their issue was they felt like they
Were so smart so was always arguing with the professor he was getting his doctor at the time I was like y don’t know everything just cuz yeah I can’t stand those type of students man I can’t stand those type of students but anyway I didn’t mean any no you good you good I
Just like it was funny to me that’s why I was like bro me and B was so hot like a lot of that stuff happened you had that or we had situations where who was I in a group with to where somebody really didn’t do no work it’s like you
Know how they always talk about some when you come to the group project you didn’t do nothing but you get a a anyway right had a lot of situations going on too I don’t know all in all I tell people if you’re going to a four year
Then most of the time you need to be networking getting internships and check the curriculum out go somewhere with a little bit Prestige because that’s really what you’re going there for if you going to Harvard Stanford Yale Princeton that’s why you going there you’re not really of course you’re
Getting education MIT but MIT some might see MIT on your resume they calling you back right right that’s what that’s for now if you’re not going to do that and you want to pay that money do it the smarter more efficient way most definitely so are you hybrid you work
From home or or what yeah I’m hybrid now and I’ve actually I they’re wanting me to work from home a little more now but we just we move buildings and so with that comes a lot of pain Growing Pains within the network and I’m I’ve already been transitioning to the guy being on
Campus all the time and um everybody else on my team works from home so I I enjoy that responsibility it looks good on me and I continue to try to do a good job every day but starting at the beginning of the year I’ll probably only
Be coming in two to three days a week but we just got a lot of a a lot of moving parts right now and I’m just waiting till it settles down to to fully take advantage of that hybrid opportunity that’s probably cuz it’s probably real quiet in there when you do
It by yourself yeah and I tell Kesha and I tell Harold when I talk to him it’s like working from home but home away from home type thing because it it’s really it’s not really anybody nearby I’m normally off by myself I have pretty big Cube space pretty comfortable and
Again I like to Pace a lot so I’m glad nobody’s there cuz they’ll think I’m crazy so when I’m working on stuff I may work on something for half hour or so then get up in Pace for 10 minutes just to clear my mind and come back and
Refocus so where’s y uh Camp is located in Irving oh okay yep that’s where the data center is it’s like right next to the airport so is that considered lost kinus I think that’s like actually Irving yeah yeah because L kinus I feel like is a little closer to where I live
Kind of yeah I used to go to I used to go to back way to Los C because I went to University of Dallas got you got you yeah so yeah but we got we also have I don’t know if you’re familiar with the flex Central but we have some
Environments over or an environment over there and their rented data center space but our main stuff is in in Irving yeah before I left income I used to work so income my building was on Belt Line at court wife far I left there I had just
Got my badge to start going to the data center in case we had to do something there but I I had put in my two weeks in because I got the job I wanted but yeah our data center was downtown okay it’s a I forgot where it was but you could
Literally take KO almost like all the way downtown and get to that data center okay did you ever have to do any work in there or Jesse did Jesse was the one he was like the supervisor Jesse was like there everything at the time I just
Was there gotta I I think that was gonna probably if I stayed there long enough give me more of the responsibility he had but I knew that’s not what I wanted to do got you like it was working on weekends so it’ be like a weekend like
This imagine our knock probably was a a little bit bigger than this room but it was all glass and just being in there watching anime doing push-ups going to the Galleria that’s that’s what I was doing a lot of good old Galleria inviting guests for real I was like I hope nobody
Like catch me up here but I was like I’m bored out my mind was nobody there was nobody in the whole building on the weekend so waking up early just to wake up on the weekend working 7 7 7 in the morning 7 night so days I would try to
Do some on a Friday night when I got off I was like I’m going to have me a little some clothes in the back and just in case phone go home and whatever it’s been times where I didn’t have to get up early and go to Target and get some
Clothes and go in and work right I hear that long nights let’s see because actually I we answered some of these already that’s why I know you felt like it was like a lot of questions but they really was like questions within questions yeah I went through them and like I said I
Didn’t mean to lump them all together but it just worked like that I’ll ask you so far as your trajectory and your career what’s next what type of skills are you working on what type of certifications are you working on so of course I brought up my CCNA earlier I
Want to get my ccmp which is the next step up but I wanted to be they have something called the ccmp DC core and that’s focus on data center networking so obviously that’s my home you could do I think they have CCNA security CCNA Wireless but data center that’s my baby
Right now so I feel like if I secure that then my trajectory is great and I and there and ADT is encouraging me to do that I’m also looking to take take the palato track with their exams I’m working on they actually I just took a
Training and they gave me a voucher for the pcnsa I believe Le lease made videos about this she may have her pcnse by now but which is a Palo Alto certified network security engineer I’m working towards that as well but Cisco is my baby man I’m always
Going to be a route switch guy but firewalls are a part of our environment it’s something I got to learn I’ve learned a lot with them and I think I think I’ll be ready to test for that probably before the year is out so I’ll keep you updated on that yeah I actually
Was going to ask you about that because on the live stream the other day Le Gabe and I were on and we were talking about Cisco versus Pao and Juniper and I was saying Pao is what Cisco think they are right what they used to be so Cisco
Because they just didn’t they just buy Splunk or something like that I think it got I think it still has to get approved but I think it’s going to happen because Splunk did some of their layoffs so they got to cut some money up and so it could
Make s Cisco has always been like at its core route switch right so it’s and from and this is me talking to senior Engineers have been around a long time they think that Cisco is terrible in the firewall space and so that’s why we have Pas in our environment so when you’re
Comparing Cisco to poo and you’re talking firewall yeah it’s not comparable and firewall that’s what y’all got too you say what poo got that nextg firewall oh yeah yeah and what’s the what’s the Cisco firewalls called marak that’s you talking about maroi what I said marak what is it ASA that’s
What they’re Cisco has ASAS and people don’t love them they’re two comparable to a router versus they’re like if I want to if I want to firewall and do carry out firewall capabilities I’m always go with PA just and I’m biased because that’s what I’m working with
Right now and we do have a few ASAS in our environment and I like and we I do some work on them but everybody loves that Palo goey and it’s it’s very it’s very what’s the word I can very user friendly so I like them and I see Lee
Likes them too so I’m not alone in it yeah yeah the lady engineer so I’ve been to ask you earlier about tools or applications that you’re using now so you’ve already mentioned paloalto Cisco is there anything else like Network in tool wise that you have access to now that you didn’t in the
Past I do a lot of DNS configurations they just they gave that to the network team at ADT a while back that’s I guess like just a it’s not so I it is network but I guess like it’s more of a normally that’s more like just a basic admin job
But I I love doing DNS adding records working with active director a lot of things we do in that space But that’s I guess a non Niche like Network admin engineering thing that we own now so got it do they have you working on anything in the network far as like Cloud no
Currently as of now which probably gonna change but that’s two separate teams and so they’re actually in the works of merging that together so AWS is about to become my second baby I assume in the near future you GNA have some fun with that yeah because at the center it’s all
The same thing it’s just different like do you use any like WBS or anything right now no not currently like I said I’m just route switch and keeping it basic with that right now doing configurations on site and things like that I haven’t worked with the w or
Anything like that we do have lad balancers in our environment I don’t know if you know about F5s okay yeah but again that’s something I have haven’t ventured towards yet the SME on that he’s waiting to get me under his wing he’s super excited about it but yeah I
Haven’t got around to it yet so that’s the good part if you’re a person that’s coming in with the new energy and killing it everybody like I’m trying to work with him yeah that’s how it was at Goldman Sachs it just was what just was killing me bro was like just driving
Down here every day from Aubrey it’s like once I moved I like I just I can’t do it let me come in two times or once a week I remember you saying that that’s why I love living in Dallas like I can’t like I know like cost of living is a
Factor but if I can figure it out like I’m going stay in the Dallas yeah if it wasn’t a factor of course I probably would have well it ain’t about a being a factor but I’m also not gonna let a place I want to stay get over on me if I
Know I can find a better deal elsewhere I will so right that’s one of the things I’m on too is I’ve been out here too long for y’all to fess me I know what they used to charge over there so you’re not g to play me I’ll do something else
I was messing with a Kisha not long ago I saw a meme that said I paid $120,000 to get this Masters but you’re trying to offer me 50 for a salary and they really do try to get over on you like this sometimes what’s something that you wish I ask you
That I didn’t ask you I honestly think I think you hit everything if I had to really think about something I I really can’t think of anything you asked me what I aspire to do what’s my trajectory you asked me what were some challenges gave good background so I
Think you hit all the notches on it okay there there another question that went on there but you ever tell kha about Coach Fae N I never gave her any coach Fae stories coach Fae is a fool I know you want this chicken I I’ll be sure to share some
She’s over here in the background listening now but I’ll be sure to share you some stories about Coach Fae baby man was feeding us cookies before games yeah he wouldn’t so you know how when before a football game you get your pregame meal that’s what hre is talking
About right now he would give us cookies I think we would get what like two two to four cookies a pie I got these cookies I know y’all want them but it was a this was his reason behind and and granted we talked about Huntington’s program earlier now we weren’t winning
Before then so what he was doing was technically working but he would tell us the reason why he would only Feed Us cookies before the game he said I want y’all to be a little hungry when y’all go out there just a little hungry and so
Yeah but he had his ways he fed as KFC after every game I don’t know who was hooking him up with the KFC I thought the booster club was paying for that man and Coach five he was flirting with somebody up there or something and
Probably had to hook cuz cuz my dad I don’t even think he had he the principal I don’t think he had a clear answer where the chicken was coming from we had kanes one time before a game because who was in our booster club right I think
Think I think it’s better now they trying to get a little tunnel and stuff to run out of yeah I know the fs are like a like big boosters a hunon now but and they’re still none of their kids are even there anymore and they still support hunson which is great but I
Don’t think hunson ever just had a we never had what sh and B got but we should I think it’s getting like that now that prog as we get older and make more money I’m sure I get back to honeyton one day Herold already wants to
Do some stuff so I do too know what I’ve been thinking about low key is like doing this at Huntington like whether it’s in the auditorium or whatever we do like I’ve been thinking about that yeah that would be cool man I think they would really appreciate seeing us come
Back cuz I I don’t think that’s something I haven’t seen anybody do it go back and just share some of their success stories and let them know hey we were here right where y’all were at so yeah that’ be cool man that’ be cool let
Me know keep me in the loop on that and I’m sure Joe is super interested in that as well man I ain’t talking to them boys that will I’m kid mind no but I’m say I actually wouldn’t mind doing a if I had to doing a cattle tour because my boy Maris you
Ain’t met him yet he was on a pod he graduated from woodl so if I had to do a woodland tour I was like bet okay he can do woodland on me there’s other people that’s that I’ve connected with that’s from the city that’s reached out to me
That they went to different schools so I could finesse and have somebody from almost every school and do it like that so I I probably can do that yeah man sh Port needs that because it’s just not we know how Louisiana is in general not Just sh Port just the opportunities
Aren’t really there so they we need to extend that Lifeline to those kids back there and let them know hey it is a career out here for you when we can be some good resources to get you started so and you can get to the money without
Getting to the money only people know this mean if they follow me on Facebook the last question is what y’all cooking next week what do we cooking next week actually we had thought too much about oh talking about for Thanksgiving dang that slipped my mind that fast I’m smoking a turkey we’re
Gonna also make some dirty rice right I just told my mom want some dirty rice cause they coming out here G make some dirty rice and then I actually shoot you the menu but it’s a long we actually having a friends giving so I’m not going home to my family for Thanksgiving this
Year but they got all kinds of stuff like almost too much I had to tell her cousin to take lamp chops I’m like why we having lamp chops at Thanksgiving that’s too much I wouldn’t be mad at it I was definitely gonna eat it but what did she say she was doing
Now chicken wings I like chicken wings we had that last last Thanksgiving we don’t like to have the Thanksgiving food outside like maybe a turkey I almost want to tell her to do turkey wings I don’t want to do double turkey so man when I was last the last time I stayed
In sh I had Thanksgiving in 2020 I got uh big baby do a fried turkey oh thing was fire we we have tried so many times we just have not been able to line it up but I have not been able to go to his Smokehouse food truck by it looks so
Good every time man some fish though that fish be looking so good I already know Shout out to Big Baby man used to sell the fried chicken in the morning at school hey he had the fried chicken and Tessy had the sandwiches yeah yeah man time hust exactly man exactly good times
But how can the people follow you on social media you could follow me on Twitter at uh switch or what is it rout switch stack I think I you caught me off guard there I haven’t given out my socials in a long time yeah thank you
But uh it’s something along the lines of that I hadn’t had to say my socials on a podcast in a long time but look in the description I already had that link to what about if they want to find you on LinkedIn LinkedIn uh Jerry Davis Jr
Everybody knows the baby boy so I’m not hard to find on LinkedIn and y’all already know how to find me textual talk textual chatter hre Davis on LinkedIn yeah but I appreciate y’all for tuning in I got some more stuff on the works it’s getting a little hot that’s
Why we getting ready that’s the window beaming on us but I appreciate y’all for tuning in until next time let’s stay textual and
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