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Watch me lose my mind at less than a minute in! LOL...
This one doesn't have too much cabling in it but I felt the need to answer these questions and share my thoughts on career here since I get asked the question frequently.
Also I show at the end a little talk about our first "Ride Along"! If you'd like to spend the day with me and are in the Los Angeles area, feel free to PM me. You'll always be welcome! Thanks everyone for all your support and for getting me over 9K subs!! I've got some interesting plans for the future here... Stay tuned!!
BTW, that thumbnail photo is me almost 30 years ago in high school...

[@nerdism797]

"It's not their job to be the IT expect, it's their job to know our phone number". That's a fantastic way to put it.

[@nerdism797]

Oh absolutely lol, just not to their face :)

[@rrrrr5042]

I agree but... It is them, who actually write in their CVs that they know how to handle the PC and how to use MS Excel, and then they call the help desk, so someone could show them how to put a formula into their freakin document. I think it is not IT expert's job most of the time.

[@JohnWatkinsUK]

You are absolutely 100% spot-on with the career advice here. If you're interested in a job wherever, at a bakery, a car workshop, fibreninja-ing, then gather up some courage and just ask to spend a day with them. Most people will be flattered and in the worst case - they can only say no! In the best case they or their boss will see your enthusiasm and that will go far further than many qualifications and is harder to ignore than a CV/resume in a pile. Show enthusiasm, don't wait to be trained on a subject, educate yourself on the technology or processes - even it it's just binge watching KZbin. Think logically and ask WHY and WHAT IF.

[@NicholasMarzio]

Thanks for opening up to us and telling us about your personal life. Hope your channel grows more and more! Really enjoy the videos.

[@gwesco]

Wow! I started out as a telecom tech in the mid 70's and got sent to a lot of factory schools. When we upgraded to Nortel equipment, I started getting into the whole network thing because we had multiple sites and multiple switches. I even installed microwave links between sites before you could rent T1 circuits from the telco. My original background was an electronics tech but I fell in love with networking and learned everything I could. I took almost every computer science class available at the local community college. I worked for the same health care company for 32 years before I left in 2006. As luck would have it, I now teach many of those same networking classes at the same community college where I took them. I even managed to get a VoIP class introduced which I also teach along with Linux and Windows servers.

[@143HawkBlack]

Man, you should have a Patreon setup. I really enjoy your insightful and interesting videos! I aspire to do work like this in the future, and I hope your channel grows to be the quality example of how technical work should be done.

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

+Instance Gaming I'm working on it. Have some moving around of a few things to do first and do some demonstrations of what I want to produce first. But I'm definitely working on it! Thx

[@143HawkBlack]

I haven't really looked into Patreon all that much. More so the thought.

[@ChristofferLundgrenSweden]

You're a great man; I'm sure your future is bright. I really enjoy the "technical" videos, but this one even made me bring the video up full screen and drop everything else I had going on. Keep it up! Greetings from Sweden!

[@gregorygardiner631]

Fiberninja is the best

[@geoffupton]

Gregory Gardiner ... and then some! damn if this doesnt inspire peoples career choices then they havent watched it! fn, you are a great engineer... keep going!

[@gregorygardiner631]

I love how important it is to him to do it right even if it's taking a few moments to correct what is found. Ownership is key to success in any role.

[@kennysboat4432]

agreed

[@optiquest86]

Your suggestions are VERY valid for anyone who are looking to get into any line of work. :)

[@tylerkeeton17]

Dude. So refreshing to hear some actual advise. Feeling inspired for sure! Really looking forward to future videos!

[@combie81]

Very good informative video and inspirational. Well done on following your heart! It's great that you don't do a job.... you do a great and neat job the way it should be done - with pride.

[@briant8848]

Should be required watching for all high school students, very well put how the job world is and a good way to deal with it.

[@nodak81]

I was a Field Service Technician too but not like the work you do. I fixed electronic demo displays in retail stores. I guess it was similar in terms of doing cable management and minor cutting/drilling, etc. Got laid-off in 2011 and now I'm 37 and am barely getting by as a medical courier (I'm self-employed too, no money, no benefits). I have no idea how to move on to something better. Can't afford to go back to college (used up my grants) and can't find any kind of training programs. Life sucks sometimes! Really appreciate your honesty in the video, interesting to hear how people move from job to job. Glad you have a better sense of direction in life than I do! lol

[@maackkrommes]

Very inspiring story.

[@alextrotta796]

Very interesting background! I'm still not sure where I want to go, but I want to do something involving computers/technology. Perhaps I.T., maybe video game design, or what you're doing. But I am much more of a sit-at-a-desk kind of person. I spend upwards of 8-10 hours a day just sitting at my desk and I'm totally happy with it (probably not healthy though). But I'll see where I end up after college, so far the one course I've taken is Java, which I'm still playing with on my summer break. Not really sure why I said all this, but if anyone is curious now you know.

[@jackonthefarm5540]

So here I am 2.5 years after you published this video. This is about the 10th video of yours I have watched. Neat cabling is oddly satisfying. But I was curious as to who you were. Hearing your story was great. Your honesty is refreshing. I don't know what you are doing now, 2.5 years later, but I hope you can exploit this niche. It is an odd subject for a KZbin channel, but here you are with 35.2K subscribers. The thought struck me that this channel could be good advertising and people in need of your services, but don't know who to look for to do the work might find you here. For many, flying you across the country to get something done would be a knit in the big picture. I hope you are having success and happiness.

[@nerwin]

What is it like to explore all these cool places? Also, what is it with us IT guys and airplanes? I love planes too haha. Great video dude, incredibly very inspirational. I kind of wished I stuck with a career in IT.

[@x86cowboy]

Thank you for sharing your experience. This is real KZbin. I hope your channel grows because we need more authentic YT channels like this. Real people, real issues. Not some flashy hipster-youtubers that are just in it for the clicks.

[@dascathea1]

I discovered your channel 2 days ago. What you do really satisfies my OCD. I am hooked. I have huge respect for you. It is getting more rare and rare for see/meet someone who really love what they do and give it their all. I could see it in the small things you do. Thank you, sir.

[@FireballXL55]

Very similar pathway, I now work for myself, love my job but do not earn a lot. But I am happy. Great videos.

[@dusterdude238]

Not to say that is what happened to you, I know you were just Bushed, But I have Non-Diabetic Hypoglycemia, and that is exactly what happens to my Mind when my blood sugar gets too Low. its awful I cant even think straight. My memory goes poof, Not fun

[@lance8080]

Don’t buy parts from Communist China best advise out their.

[@garethswaffs]

Well done Fibreninja, this was very inspirational and somewhat reminiscent of my own career. Currently holding together a small engineering company in the UK. I do everything IT from network cabling, to programming and network security. Not great pay but I am my own boss in a way and every day is a challenge and I love it. Will certainly be taking on some of your advise on cabling :)

[@wlan246]

3:09 You aren't kidding when you say IT and telephony are two very different worlds! When the time came to offer IP phone service to our Internet subscribers in an apartment building, and we decided the best approach would be to tie into the phone panel (rather than put an ATA in each apartment), I got a crash course in moving between four-wire, Cat5 and 25-pair color codes (while keeping "tip" and "ring" straight), 66 blocks and bridge clips, how to use a butt set, and the joy to be found in "bed of nails" alligator clips. As long as you know the basics of DC, this century-old technology is incredibly simple--but if you don't have the tools and the secret decoder ring of knowing the colors and the terminology, it might as well be rocket surgery!

[@fmslickful]

I do what you do and I still would enjoy hanging out, just to have someone to talk about what we do. Most of my friends did even know what a RJ45 is... lame :P Good video, keep them coming sir!

[@davidratkay9281]

I know I have always loved planes. i stopped collecting them when i was 6 years old, but planes are one of the few things in this world that give me chills. i also love IT. I would love to setup a network at my house and do some projects.

[@linagee]

This video resonated with me. My own career path: Field Service Tech -> Software Developer -> FIeld Service Tech. For many of the same reasons you pointed out. A desk job can kind of suck and solving telco problems and stepping back and saying "I did that" gives a happier feeling than "I made a function better".

[@ari-mcbrown]

You're getting some momentum big guy... and a hell of a lot respect from people who generally underestimate the work that goes into proper cable management. Like you said, if you do a good job, nobody notices you... You suck at it, everybody knows. Your vid's inspire me and help me inspire other technicians. Thank you, keep on going. You should think a little about a format for your vid's though. Like a standard intro or a Q&A clip at the end. :)

[@marksmall933]

I'm an airline pilot watching your videos when I should be studying for my recurrent ground school.😁 Love the videos!

[@sparkyprojects]

I knew how to do things, but wasn't good at qriting it down, that's why i didn't do well in school exams. But i did get a job for 5 years in analogue telephone exchange installation and testing (crossbar), then moved on to being an electrical technician for the next 32 years. Going back to the phones, i was happily doing the testing at one exchange when a new worker joined to do testing (there was a lot of it), i had worked my way up and learning as i went. He had a university degree in telecomms, he was also the nephew of the zone manager, almost immediately he tried to tell me i was doing the job wrong, i told him to get on with his own work. (had a bit of a talking to from the office for that) A couple of weeks later he 'ordered' me to help him, i told him that with his degree he should be able to do it himself. In the end (after another office meeting) i helped him, he was going by the book, the way he was taught to find out why a relay wouldn't operate, but he wasn't taught about the swarf that gets behind the armature, my method was to poke the relay, and that what he told me i was doing wrong, i poked his relay, then told him "clean the swarf behind the armature, and don't ever tell me i'm doing the job wrong :D So yeah, qualifications don't always help

[@peterg.8245]

Great advice! I started fresh from college with an EE working petrochemical control systems. Got laid off when $/bbl halved in '09, started a failed business, bought a vending route making half of what I started off with but I'm happy and I only work 2 days a week.

[@BlackburnInTech]

Thank you for being a huge positive influence. I've been working hard on getting out of the public safety background and try to transition to an IT background.

[@digitalradiohacker]

I like to think that at the moment he was going to say his job title, he clapped eyes on a bundle of cables as thick as my thigh, terminated in 66-blocks to another bundle of cables as thick as my thigh, with the 66 suspended by the cables, and the cables zip-tied to a fibre run. They also left out the bridge clips.

[@ValcoBayrunner]

Some LECs or ISP's have intern positions. The military branches have telecom jobs and now IT and drone programs. I'm an IP network engineer, but also do site surveys for wireless shots and clean up some demarcs from bad techs in the past. My start was 30 yrd ago in USAF as tech control. Then after 4yrs a contractor for DOD company, learned auto CAD, did cabling, terminated fiber, then learned microwave radios. Then the good old internet came along and I started as an intern for MCI and learned IP routing and networking. Then I did some project management and implement dial up, dsl, cable modems, and enterprise internet and private IP connectivity for businesses. Any bright teen today can get online and take free cisco and juniper practice exams to get network certifications become a network admin. Without having to go to college and make over $50,000 a year to start. Cisco has voip, data, data center, service provider, and security career fields. There's a ton of jobs opportunities.

[@gmroberts]

Great video and great advice. Thanks for posting it.

[@shifter65]

Where are you filming this? Are these tunnels underneath a building? Is this a common thing? Edit: Reached the part where you briefly explain

[@Lectwar6]

"the vast majority of people do not choose their careers, they let events dictate that for them" I have never heard truer words and its only from one other person in my life that I have been told that by. I was 19 when I was told that. I'm 27 now, and it holds truer than ever. Learn to thrive in that and ride waves. Many of us can work in fields we've not even conceptualized that but the ability to learn and recognize where you're needed will make you money.

[@Lectwar6]

I cant begin to explain how happy I am that I found your channel. "they will cry in front of you, and that to me is a thrill" you're a fuckin savage mate, i love it.

[@Neighbour_Al]

Join the Coast Guard, train as an Electronics Technician or whatever they call the I.T. folks now, get 10+ years of experience, and you'd be amazed at what you'll get to see and do!

[@michaelmione]

Jon thanks for sharing this... a bit late but have been catching up on your content and appreciate the career advice. Hope you're doing well.

[@pattygq]

I have both backgrounds as well. Where are you in this video lol?

[@nachtbericht]

Ninja, you are a very honest person. Thanks for the contemplation

[@infinitecanadian]

Doesn't make much sense how a desk job pays more than what you do.

[@nekoroms]

If someone makes something look really easy its mostly cause they are really good at it :) i feel your channel name is spot on as you go to a place and do miracles that nobody notices (cause stuff is in ceilings and racks) but after you leave everything just magically now works :D

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

That's a very neat way of putting it! Thx

[@stinkycheesecutter]

I am guilty of letting events unfold that led to a career. I just find myself in this career. By complacency. The only reason I watched your video is because I want to choose something. And building networks is one if those. I'll be going to a tech. College soon. Thank you for your videos. Your videos ARE hanging out with you and learning about the job. You are that person I can learn from to see if I want to do networking, if I can do it. Thank you for your videos!!!

[@donnierobertson3088]

Good job

[@nswbassman]

G'day from australia fibre ninja!!

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

Awesome!! Thx

[@He4dSpark]

Keep it up you have brought a lot of inspiration to me!

[@rs7388]

good shit like most of these comments there are other ways to offset costs in other area.

[@drbass9677]

What subjects do you have to be good at in school to work with networking stuff

[@dixiechampagne2892]

Really enjoyed your vid. Especially the postscript. Your dad sounds a lot like my dad (who, unfortunately, is no longer with us). I could tell you some stories. Got an aluminum wall poster I think you'd really enjoy: I inherited his squadron's insignia poster, painted on sheet aluminum. It's a doctor examining a sick airplane (Charlie was Air Force). Keep up the good work!

[@ohimsydneyx]

where is a good place to get telephony training?

[@Ellington_Industrial_Arts]

I appreciate your work, your background, and your path. You've already helped me through some of the less familiar portions of a project I'm working on. Keep doing what you do, and sharing your insight!

[@achum2sum]

FN thanks for the download of very exciting journey and always sticking to your own 'through line' (a screenplay concept), I think I would make all the same choices you made.

[@JeandrePetzer]

Yay! New Video!

[@billhickswasgreat3421]

This was a very wholesome video! Liked!

[@henniedutoit6471]

Be for B/G/N existed lol. Im a wireless network admin/project manager in South Africa Hard work but wouldn't take another job and where I need to show the guys how to do something good I ref to {THE} FiberNinja"

[@johngordon1175]

Thought your wife would come into it eventually along with divorce! Went through that myself! - travelled throughout Europe etc.money and opportunities were great.

[@yusuflimz]

+FiberNinja Absolutely loved this video. So well articulated and advice was bang on! I think there's quite a few things that you can do to help out with your cash flow. Some have mentioned Patreon, there's also amazon affiliates, putting things in your amazon wish list so that your subscribers can buy for you if they wanted your professional review on. Even small things like a good brand and identity are now days inexpensive and go a long way. If you ever need some advise i can try and help. It's really cool to see your ride along initiative!

[@Sharpround]

Awesome video! Out of curiosity, did you ever come across a guy at Disney Imagineering by the name of Steve Alcorn? He co founded Alcorn McBride inc. which produces show control systems and other gear for the entertainment industry, some of which I have worked with

[@ravimistry9708]

Thank you so much for the advise.

[@piro133a]

I just want to say thankyou, you give great tips and don't talk too much about....stupid stuff. everything is directly relevant without sounding preachy or being overly dumbed down story wise

[@orlandocamba5581]

Thank you for this video. I work as a field service technician currently and love it. I do want to work up to network engineering someday, so your experience is insightful!

[@crocellian2972]

The most important point you make is that who you are around is who you will be. I hired and fired well over a hundred people over a long career. The sad part is I knew the first week who would be fired in the next round. We had a smoke free campus and mandatory substance abuse testing. I was a VP. All I had to do was walk around the backs of the buildings and pass by the smokers hiding holes. Those were always the next people to go. They signed a contract clearly committing not to smoke on campus or show up to work with a certain threshold of drugs of abuse in their bodies. But they hung out with the people who blew off all the rules. They were also, with very rare exceptions, the ones with poor performance records. Next round of layoffs, guess who failed their UIs? Had they hung out at the water cooler and learned about the company and its people, they would have been fine. You become who you associate with. It is almost a corporate axiom.

[@JoaoSilva-gs5jb]

Only ninjas record on tunnels! hehe

[@matthewballew1927]

I am just starting out with all this, and getting my CCNA and working with enterprise level equipment. These videos have really given the confidence and problem solving motivation that has helped me take on solo jobs I never thought I would be doing this early. Thanks for sharing your expertise, and I hope you keep making videos!

[@gersur]

Subscribed!! I think you never tell your name, so what is your name?

[@PT-Gamer]

Hey just wanted to let you know that i stumbled onto your channel and I think it's amazing! Thank you for sharing both your personal and professional life. Keep up the great work!

[@SyberPrepper]

Loved the video. It helps to know some background from someone's life before you know how much credence to give their advice. Many gems in your advice. Thanks for taking the time to make the video.

[@ChrisTopher-wl6pd]

My grandpa is the same as your father. He knows how to fix everything and I always aspired to be just like that. I'm also fortunate to have very intelligent grandfathers on both sides and I seemed to get the best of the gene pool in that regard. I love this video. This is a similar was I ended up in the field service tech field as well.

[@rhdtv2002]

Ahh your job title is FiberNinja..everyone knows this man..

[@oleroy4749]

Another great video! Thank you very much Sir. After high school I went to tech school for automotive technology. Did that and was miserable. I love cars and turning wrenches, but I was rarely working on cool vehicles. Then I stumbled upon a bartender job that I loved for a good decade. Then started getting extremely burned out. I decided to go back to school for networking. I got a internship and hired by the company. And I really enjoy what I'm doing now. I made a killing as a bartender, but I wasn't satisfied. Networking is very satisfying. Especially or those rare time when you get to build one from the ground up.

[@ncssllc9648]

Well said... We have exact similar background..... PM we want to hire you...

[@tylertc1]

Man, if I haven't commented on this...I'm going to even if I did already. To share this kind of information and to see the honesty you have with yourself is really inspirational.

[@robindp]

+FiberNinja This is an EXCELLENT video - from the heart. You are amazing, and thank you for these videos.

[@AP9311]

great video!! very insightful explanations. I can certainly relate to you on that. if I'm ever in L.A. I certainly will look you up. go on ride along. share my knowledge with ya and experiences too on KZbin. that will be fun to watch!!!

[@timsparrow460]

Inspirational and heartfelt video. This video should be mandatory viewing in schools/Universities/HR onboarding programs. There is no value that can be placed on the mindset and work-ethic you bestow. By sharing/giving us the wisdom you have earnt over the years, I am sure great things are in store for you in return. Thank you FiberNinja for being the voice of reason in a sea of tangled cables and shoddy installs.

[@rosssharrer]

A ton of awesome advice in this video. @fiberninja love the videos man! If you came to east coast doing this kind of contracting work you would make a killing.

[@figpal4381]

This is one of the best posting you have done. In fact, I can totally relate to what you are saying and it's from the heart.

[@XXXL_CPT]

Hope to see you soon back on you tube.

[@TLM-Nathan]

I am 33 years old, am I too old to intern or start in IT?

[@bloodsuckinflea]

Absolutely not.

[@alomonwo]

yes you are old but never to old to start a new career.

[@johnstutz4458]

Too old. I'm 53 and I am all over the place.

[@rhdtv2002]

Nope. I started at 36ish..now I'm the only tech in the company. I'm 48 yo..

[@AHKCHANNEL]

Your Really The Best Hope you Good Luck in Your Work & Keep Making This Amazing Videos

[@NenadKralj]

Being a network engineer (if you are good in your job) no one will ever see you, on body will even know who you are (because things just work) - that is so true; that is the troth (u are right) like 100% I know what you mean by that and what you / his saying - sometime is really disappointing - but that is correct!!

[@elstondias9172]

Nenad kralj are you a network engineer and do you do stuff like the author of the above video thanks in advance.

[@Justplanecrazy25]

Haha what a small world. I'm an Embry Riddle grad too. Thank you for the advice and I love the videos you make.

[@snows2858]

are you still in chi town ? I started down south was after the army Charter then moved back up north to mil and start to work at a contractor never again then went to time wanner, on to At&t then Cc&n most of the stuff you are doing now. left CC&N Due to ass hats.Been Poping around these last too last years Been doing carp. Got offers to come back to spectrum as a manger But turned it down. I like to be in the field but From doing this type of work it has took a toll on me. Have you looked at the wisps for work, new and upcoming Field do not know how you do with heights?

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

Oh no, not since 1988. I live and work in the Los Angeles area.

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

Well, since my foot injury, I'm really not looking for work! I probably won't be able-bodied for a good part of this year they tell me. I am back to doing "desk work" right now and man do I hate it! After being out in the field for the last few years I appreciate just how much I hated this work. I also realized why I got so good at this desk work: because I hated it so much and wanted it to be over with as soon as possible!! Other than the fall I recently had, I'm totally fine with heights. I've been up on ladders since I was 5 yrs old...

[@snows2858]

Yeah I just blow out my rotatory cuff not hopefully I don't need surgery. all from doing over head work

[@bloodsuckinflea]

I don't want this to come across the wrong way so I am prefacing this comment with the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed this video and all the content you put out. However, a designer is not the same as an engineer. Being a licensed structural engineer, I can assure you that there are some fundamental differences between the two. Personally, I make sure I am as competent in CAD as the drafters/designers I work with because I don't feel right if I am not. That being said, I do know that a lot of younger engineers use software to do their calculations for them that bypass a lot of the fundamental concepts that drive these computations. Designers can use this software to engineer designs as well, however, without knowing the basis of the calculations it can lead to dangerous territory because limitations of the software leaves gaps in load paths and failure mechanisms. It makes me very leery of the future of engineering since technology makes younger engineering generations lazy and dangerous. I see it first hand because I do a lot of customer service work as part of my job and feel dumbfounded explaining basic structural engineering principles to other licensed engineers. I just want to reiterate that I thought this and all your other videos are fantastic, but I just wanted to comment on those particular lines because I felt passionate about it. I'm sure I will get a lot of hate on this comment, but c'est la vie. To go more in line with your video, I will say that I learned a lot as an engineer working on the shop floor with the guys who would build the stuff I would engineer. They saw things I would have overlooked by not being involved in the actual fabrication. Being with the welders and machinists made me a better engineer, so it's not always the guys in the position you're in or wanting that can teach you. Open ears and an open mind makes you a better person all the way around. Solid advice in this video. Best regards, FiberNinja.

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

+Flea I never said I was a civil engineer but a designer as you mentioned. I too see a trend towards dependency on computers and less on the brain to first conceptualize a design and understand what's really happening. I'm probably going to have a video about my experiences in that dynamic in the future when I've got a few more good cabling shoots published. I have probably had many similar episodes dealing with computer-dependant engineers! I can tell from the little you have said here that you are a very unique engineer my friend!

[@coryfabian7577]

awesome video, love your adventure to where you are today. keep on making the videos and I'll keep watching

[@PapaWheelie1]

Lesson learned- go to work everyday with eyes and ears open - mouth closed unless if you see a old timer working, then open mouth to ask how you can help. Worked excellent for me...

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

+PapaWheelie Well said!

[@ObsessedWIthGTAIV]

Smart Hands aka Equinix? Do you work for Equinix?

[@d.m.4815]

Thank you for the honesty. I’m a FiberNinja fan for life.

[@systemvoid287]

Great video, very interesting. Congratulations on your journey and finding a happy career. :)

[@ktantv199]

Hi. Fiber Ninja, My name is Dr. Asim Malik, I am one of your subscribers from Tulsa, OK. Interestingly, I am in the same age as you are and have numerous similarities between us. I am a certified A&P, worked for American Airlines as technician, QA Analyst; Northwest Airlines as General Inspector, Manager Strategies; and Istithmar World Aviation owned by Sheikh of Dubai as Manager Quality and Safety including numerous contract houses for Part 145 aircraft repair stations throughout the USA. I like networking, my first project of networking was back in 2003 establishing network in my own house and time to time did little bit of work. I also worked as field technician for NCR to replace, troubleshoot the networking equipment, wiring updates etc on restaurants fixing the hardware such as POS, order management equipment and gas station for fuel controllers etc. An other similarity I have is that I also have ecurity clearance for 65 countries from the US Army, for the past 8 years I have been deployed and been performing F-35 responsibilities (Military People would know about F-35). I got injured 9 months a go and returned back to the USA for treatment. I am currently at home and after treatment going through rehab. During my deployment I though I should start an internet based TV Channel, which I did and named it KTAN TV. Oh, little bit about my educational background after obtaining the A&P with B.T degree and after loosing job from American Airlines back in 2002, I got my MBA and followed by Doctorate in business administration (I defended my dissertation when I was deployed for Military Duty based on a small VSP on a mountain and over the phone defense with my professors back in the USA at University of Phoenix, Arizona. Thanks to my Military commander allowed me to use the Military phone system to defend my dissertation on the phone for 7 hours. My defense started at 11:59 PM and ended at 7:00 AM when my committee chair person announced me with my title Dr. Malik). Well, back to my TV Channel, I signed up with provider to broad cast my TV Channel but it was costly. I decided to stop his services and develop my own Content Delivery Network (CDN) and soon learned this is also very costly to own a CDN to stream videos. However, my channel is on its initial stages and I can have my own small CDN and started shopping my own equipment, which include servers for media streaming and storage etc. I ended up developing my own 7 feet tall rack with all the necessary equipment that I bought as used from auctions (If bought new they could cost me about half a million dollars), which cost me about 3K plus and my own time working on setup etc. I am not completely done yet because the last thing is to connect the 1U servers with 4U 30TB storage machine. I hope in next few days I will find some help to complete the setup of storage and my servers will recognize the 30TB storage and finally the software for streaming the videos (looking forward to free Ngnix CDN software from Nginx.org). I hope you will like my story. I like to keep in contact with you via email ([e-mail])

[@pducharme]

Very inspiring story. Important: Love your job, it's so much easier!

[@janedagger]

*bow bow.. prostrate self... bow...grin* Beautiful story, thank you.

[@Mario55555]

Thank you for this video, and so many incredibly valuable insights!

[@ericonca]

Thank you for sharing your personal story and work history. I love aviation too and that was a nice surprise to hear!

[@brodierobson4490]

Thanks for the advice and opening up to your life story. Much appreciated.

[@FredIchinose]

Old friend, I love your journey into the bowels of that facility and even more your personal story and great counsel. (People, I can tell you it's true.) And I'm glad you clarified that you said "telephony"... I was about to give up hope since I can't read minds. Keep it coming! :`}

[@FiberNinjaStudios]

+Fred Ichinose Hey Fred!! Awesome to see you here!

[@johnnyoriolnetwork1communi405]

Field Service Technician

[@Mrflash222006]

I have done may jobs in my life, I could never work in a office - I'm hands on and have run circles around people out of uni/college with degrees - I get more enjoyment out of building a PC or installing networking than I ever would sitting at a desk on a phone

[@Mrflash222006]

a lot of the younger generations need guidance and have no common sense or nouse tbh, I have done telecoms installs, networking and alarm installs as well as no end of automotive electrical diagnostics in my time

[@redpurple1035]

thank you for your amazing works sir.. cant wait for incoming projects. :)