computers and technology changed my life to the good but college wasted my time forgood . I wish I knew about these certifications when I was younger

IT is a golden hustle man. Just got my A+. Going to finish Net+ in about two months, then I may get into CCNA.

You are an inspiration brotha thank you as a young black man you have helped me see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Nice to see another brother who see's the light in the I.T. thing ..... #Salute

Damn same boat bruh, hella inspirational. Thanks, studying for my CCNA right now.

so glad you passed the CCNA and CCNP certifications!!! great, you've inspired me to go ahead and get those!!!

This felt so natural and laid back. Great video, very encouraging.

Thanks Bro. I hope your continue to progress . A great witness!!!

I appreciate this candid conversation. This really helps. I look forward to watching more of your content as you continue in your IT career.

Man, you are cool, straight, and honest. Thank you for all those great suggestions! You have a lot of knowledge and experience that can be shared. Thank you in advance!

Thnx for serving and making these vids!! I'm using my VR&E to change careers to IT... Excited to see more vids!!

I'm glad I found your channel, definitely needed the little extra boost of morale to push forward with ICND1 and 2!

Appreciate you sharing your experience. I was barely introduced to this & excited to get into this

Great Video, Du'An..thank you for sharing your story!!

This really hit home. Thanks for posting. Now it time to get back to the books.

Great video man. Completely relatable to myself. I left the Army, needed a job, joined a IT helpdesk then moved into a networks role. I've been studying now for just short of a year and failed my icnd2 exam on Monday with a score of 735. Dissapointed but you're right in what you've said, if it was easy everyone would have it. Made my day this video, cheers!

Dropping knowledge as always brotha, great video !

Thanks for sharing your story and making this video !

Awesome video! I have been in IT for about 11 years now, and have pretty much maxed out as a tier 2 technical specialist. The past week I have started my studying journey for the CCNA. Thanks for the inspiration, and keep up the good work.

Thank you posting it, It really inspire me !!!

You're the shit. Keep being you. Needless to say, I subbed. You've helped many ppl with ur channel, even if they don't sub or comment.

Thanks brother will helped me out tremendously. From Kansas City myself and appreciate the help you are putting out there for many of us with my questions and insecurities. 100

Thank you for the inspiration brother. I immediately subbed and I will be checking out your posts. I'm looking to get into a career in the tech world and as overwhelming the subject is for a person like myself with zero IT experience, seeing relatable folks like yourself is extremely motivational. Shout out from Oakland, Cali... ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

Your videos are very inspiring. Keep them coming. I can relate to your story, from doing music previously to working at the service desk. Currently self-studying for ICND1 and this helped a lot.

Good info for folks looking to break into something new. I have been on the fence with creating a channel as well. I am also ex Army and spent 7 years at a very interesting helpdesk/ISP working for military as a contractor. The level of troubleshooting I learned there was golden. Thanks for sharing the knowledge fam!

Du'an, Thanks for the inspiration. Thank you for your military service! I'm prior Army, comms & electronics repair. I can do this! At 47 I was a 16 yr. Century Link outside tech and had a career ending, on the job injury. Its been a tough 5 years since being broken off! I really believe this will be my ticket back into a sustainable career. Again, thanks for the inspiration and the tips.

This video is still relevant! I love this! I'll keep you posted on my success. Thanks for sharing

I'm 43, and have been doing deskside/helpdesk support for 11 years and I am just tired of it. I took CCNA classes from 2000-03, and finished. Had my cert voucher and never took the test. Now I regret it. I am tired of the same old same old doing deskside support. I want more. So I am going to give CCNA another shot, a lot has changed since 2003. It's gonna be rough.

Hey man, this has been very inspiring to me! Wish you the best in your career.

Love this channel man, keep it up! I feel like we share a similar mindset in that money is a motivator, but an even bigger motivator is learning and sharing that knowledge.

You are the man and are a major inspiration for me. Thank you.

Thank you bro. I am now working as a service desk analyst and this video has been very inspirational.

Thank you very much. I'm from Italy. Great Video! You're right: money is important of course but knowledge comes first.

4 in the morning, working 3rd shift, can’t wait to level up- Thank you bruh!

Thanks for this video, Du'An - I think it's valuable. Good luck on your career!

Thanks for sharing. Very encouraging!

I.T. Career Questions brought me here..Great intro into this arena.. Thanks! Just subscribed!!

Thanks, I needed that... After six years in the military and a top secret clearance as a Human Resources Information Systems Analyst I came into the real world as a installation tech for time Warner. I went the business route and did Mortgages, Insurance Agent, Financial Consultant and now I find myself full circle studying for the CCNA. I appreciate seeing positive brothers sharing information like this. I'm taking the two test route like your other video mentioned. **Thanks**

Definitely going to be referring to your videos often. I'm an IT in the USCG (Net+ and Sec+) and WILL be obtaining my CCNA by end of June 2018. Appreciate your insight man! Keep increasing your value out here people!

Ur a good human being and a great motivator. Bless!!

I'm wrapping up my time in the military and have been working towards getting my A+ just to try and get my feet wet in the IT world. Your videos have really helped me push forward and study as much as possible in order to get the ball rolling on all of this.

oooh man thank you so much i hope that CCNA will change my life also know and i feel every word that you are saying because i faced many things like you even i am not in The USA but i had the same life that you had

appreciate the motivation man at my help desk job now ..ill be back to say i passed this exam ! on everything !

Thanks bro you are very inspiring, im currently working on getting a ccna and your advice is very helpful

congrats dude, been in IT over 20 yrs and love to hear the success stories...keep it up...

Great video my brutha 💪🏾💪🏾💯

Excellent video!!!

your video really motivated me even more to do my CCNA switching and routing. Much love from London (England)

God bless you, brother. This video was exceptionally inspirational.

Great video!!!! Thanks for sharing!

Having spent 2,5 years (half the time you did lol) as a help desk / service desk 1st level support for huge international american company and being on the brink of entering my 30's in the last years I spent a lot of the time riding down the subway, by reading Troy McMillan's CCENT literature. Your videos inspire people. I don't know if I'll make it in Cisco or reach CCNA but its a career path which gives hope and purpose to many people. That being said, thanks for the videos. Now I only wish I had a home lab like you. Topman!

Man, this video just made my day - scratch that - month.

Good looking out bro, u just gave me a fresh boost of motivation. Studying for CCNA atm, hope to get it in the next few month before my 21st birthday!

Thank you. Your video is informational and inspiring.

Thank you this video helped out a lot

Thanks a lot for your sense of motivation.

I passed my Ccna bro,🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Thank you for your motivation bro…Salute

Well done and well said!

Great advice man !!

Well Said. I'm going for mine after a 10 year chill status. Thank you for this content young Sir. Yes Todd L is my dude.

Nice video man. Just started my training with INE. Looking forward to making this next step.

Motivational man, yo boi from IOC 👍🏽

I am 22 and half way through my CCNA 1 and I love it. This video is awesome thanks for the upload

Keep it up, brother!!! Much love from your African brother here! I am watching your video from China :) I am pursuing the CCNA certification as well, and your video is very encouraging!

You got a sub from me, I like your enthusiasm All the best!!

Good vid man!!!

Good Video man it inspired me, even if I'm not gonna to make the Cisco certifications since it's not my biggest interest but I'm working towards to get maybe by end of this year or early next year a OSCP .

Damn bruh. that's real talk. I do appriciate real talk. Ive been in IT for over 20 years. I got moved from network to an IP based radio network, to a Mainframe. My skill set has suffered as a result of no hands on and technology passing me up. NOW im ready and, quite frankly, eager. Thanks for giving me some hope and focus young brotha ( you may be old but im Old as Dirt LoL)

Your words, your thoughts, very encouraged me keep to stayed in CCNA class, and I'm 49 years old, sometimes I think I'm very old to get into networking, I just started taking CCNA class, it is very hard class, I got layoff from my work because my company moved out of state and I looked something else in high demand out there now, so I picked CCNA program. Thank you, it is inspirational.

Nice! Thank you man

Thank you. You don't know me but thank you. Right message at the right time.

Great video! 😉

just grabbed a new sub, one you got me from your other video about CCNA certification that youtube sent me to. then i came to your page and watching your home page video. You had me sold when you mentioned Kansas City! (i work downtown and live in LS) and literally just bought the CCNA certification through icollege after seeing it was on sale from tech deals through android authority... Not to mention you said Centriq, i have a cousin that went there and got his Comptia A+ certification through them. You got me sold. I definitely had to subscribe. if i have any questions along the way i might reach out to you haha. Thanks for the information and the video. Man even youtube is making kansas city smaller than what it is. Best of luck on your journey brotha!

Your goal- to help people. You just helped me! Thanks.

Thanks man, I passed my ccna on 24/08/2018. Now I am studying mcsa.

Thank you brother How expensive is having such kind of dream on you like helping and learning not just money Keep up

I admire you. I came across your channel on a humble and I’m glad I did. I will be in touch.. I want my CCNA I’m just trying to figure my game plan.. I’m confused on these different levels of CCNA certs

Man....help desk for 3 years here. Hate that shit. I took ICND 1&2 and came up a little short. Gonna take it again in about a month.

Thanks for the video!

Working on my CCNA now. I have the same book, but you definitely need more than one source of info. I also have a udemy bootcamp video program I'm using. Can't wait to get my CCNA, it will indeed open much more doors.

Thank you for your service.

just one word, THANK YOU❤

Thanks for the inspiration bro

This video radiates positive vibes and vision.

I was debating between the Network+ and the CCNA, your video made my decision a lot easier. I will be going for the CCNA...thanks!!!

I hear where you are coming from. I've worked helpdesk and desktop support for 5-6 years, and felt like it was going nowhere. Then I got a job doing layer 1 refreshes for a cisco gold partner at a hospital contract. After doing that for a year, I'm studying for CCNA, and so far, I have done most of the stuff already! Looking for hardware to build a home lab.

Thanks bro. You are an inspiration! I am a computer technician with a Bachelor's degree in computer science and 3 years of tech support experience making no more than $14.00 an hr. For me it has simply not been cutting it. I hope with CCNA, A+, and Net + certifications i can move on to better job opportunities.

Enjoyed your video, Still in KC? Im actually from Kansas. Ive only been working help desk for 5 months but I know I dont want to stay there. Going straight for my CCNA right away. Sub'd, I'll be looking forward to any future content.

thanks for the encouragement Du'An. Im starting to learn this at 40 ! lol hope it's not too late

i was a warehouse associate working for Lazada in Singapore, as the epidemic broke up, I lost my job and my country lockdown since then, I lost my only income , literally, I could do nothing with it . from the time on, after doing a lot of researches, attended different IT courses from different platforms in order to catch up the most current IT technologies those used in the industry. after going through all those courses, I have made my final dicision, to be a network engineer . Nights and days, sometime 12 hours a days, chasing CCNA materils provided by the experts in the field , now, my exam finally scheduled , next week might be my big day. Hope CCNA could change my life just like what it did to change yours . Even though i have this video 4 years after , but im glad to have watched it , encourageing . Thank you

Hey there Du'An. Im a KC native also and obtained my ccent and working on getting my ccna. I looked at centriq but decided to attend the cisco network academy at mcckc. Currently working as a data center tech . Unfortunately the data center will be closing next year but hopefully my ccna can get me into the door somewhere else. Good luck to you and good inspirational video!!

This is soooooo crazy I'm in Centriq right now and I'm trying to find my way through and seeing video and you mentioning Centriq what are the odds??? The signs are there man

thank you brother for the video.

U are amazing bro thank u 👍✌

I’m starting a 16 week training program to get my CCNA and MCSA. Thanks for this video, it’s motivating!

Good shit bro you god me inspired. I was in the military with a clearance but most employers dont give AF.

I was young, made mistakes. I've worked hard ever since (roughly 10 years) and have put myself in a position where I can finally make moves for myself and my family. I just passed the CCENT in December (started mid-october) and just scheduled ICND2 for the last day (feb 23). I'm confident I'll pass and with my experience I know good things are coming. Just want to put good energy out there for anyone currently in the struggle.

Aww man a true inspiration, I just told my wife I didn't want to do this anymore. Than I saw your video..

im already studying for my security + cert but ill look into getting my CCNA after

25L (cable installed/maintainer) and 25H (network communication systems specialist) now. currently learning ccna right now and getting a interview as a network engineer. your videos is a great help. thank you.