Question: What Does Eli the Computer Guy Actually Do?

[@djdaz411]

Best IT quote I've heard in a while: "In this profession you’re either invisible or the goat"

[@finnleykye6130]

Instablaster

[@josemorgan9725]

Eli u are my inspiration here in Ghana.Thank you You have taught me a lot and i am grateful.

[@kakasanti]

+jose morgan , please stay in Ghana, thank you.

[@josemorgan9725]

y

[@josemorgan9725]

i am a citizen of the world

[@josemorgan9725]

thanks.you are very kind

[@pleasebereasonable2644]

+BitFan rude people like you who lacks empathy is what's wrong with the world today. eat some sugarless haribo bears, flush all that hate out of your system and come back like an actual human being. k

[@MikeFuryTech]

As a career consultant (going all the way back to mainframes, but then a LONG stint in the Mobile device space and now SAP Infrastructure, you are spot on with all of these points.

[@CodeRadGames]

2:56 I've been there, unfortunately. You learn your lessons overtime, and double check everything you do. Than you double double check it just in case. Afterwards you get someone to double check your double check.

[@alexs1972]

Thanks for posting this! Further more, thank you for your service, AND thank you also for all these lessons! okay back to your networking videos for me now..

[@promptingbeastai]

I can understand a bunch of things but why would someone dislike video like this nope...

[@kalev0avraham]

+Faus8t because they are jealous that he makes money off youtube and they do not.

[@Mariejopas]

That's honest, and good for you!

[@clarkdnro]

20 sec in the video and i know him for years on internet. eli the computer guy its a master in networking, some programming langues, cyber security of course , active directory and all that big companies needs + hes also a hardware building and programm those too, in my opinion he knows too much while he's having fun as a down-to-earth kind of guy. he's not a wine, but a beer person. imagine that talent.

[@289fiacobra]

Eli, that was the most honest and real-world response I've heard from anyone.. and I've been in this business for over 25 years.

[@User-vd9lu]

i thought he hacks walmart billing system and he buys stuff for half the price

[@BillAnt]

Eli's ramblings are clearly Oscar winning material. xD

[@haruspex0]

That one stupid little checkbox - so true! hit a little too close to home :(

[@jaysouthphil7505]

Eli I really appreciate you and everything you do on KZbin. Thank you sir!

[@MaheshKumar-lf5ge]

Eli i have learrnt a lot from you ... Thanks you so much

[@philiplow1609]

Great ! May you be well and happy.

[@geot4647]

Mike Rowe voice stand-ins?

[@bluethunder7391]

2:55 I thought I was the only one that had that opinion about the bussines.I wish I could do another job that pays and work computers as a hobby.

[@G-Code_official]

In the video you stated that you were from the Army...... were you a soldier? or have you worked with the army as a technical professional? I am asking this to know whether the army has played its part in making and keeping you motivated.

[@zachg3581]

yup Chris hawkes I've watched your videos their great as well. eli I love the information you provide. just when I think you've missed something you hit it right square on the head. man thanks again

[@siddharthkrishnan]

can you please teach c++

[@kalMHe]

Thank you so much Eli for what you do !

[@rick-ry3kj]

You are an IT guru, I have learned a great deal, thank you.

[@TheRealThaenatos]

Been in IT since 2004, classically trained in comp sci and wow am I burned out....in fact I burned out years ago! Help desk burn out was first and that was about 2-3 years in and was a stark change for me. the rest was around year 5. As I write this Im servicing a help desk request for a "broken PC" thats causing more trouble then its worth and I want nothing more to get to bed but I cant because the user is "too important" to put off. So here I sit with a best case scenario of 2-3 hours of sleep tonight/this morning all for a help desk call. Im a 1 man IT department so I have to handle it all....was hoping by this time in my life I wouldnt be doing this (help desk) but the flexibility is too nice with kids and such...Oh yeah did I say help desk is the devil?!?!?

[@user-hp8um8vm5v]

Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other

[@surenbono6063]

...u remind of Jim Reynor...good day commander

[@swanseawales1979]

Do you think ad blocker will affect you doing KZbin full time in the foreseeable?

[@mottbone]

Thanks for the video's Eli. Computer tech material that's worth watching.

[@christopherhumphrey]

Congrats on making a living on KZbin..Your videos are very helpful. Thank you for your time.

[@Jimmyageek]

Eli I Got a Lot of Hiss on My Videos So Which Mic Should I Use ?

[@andersonpyaban8042]

you actually resemble Sean william scott....stifler from American pie???

[@bwanagilbert6426]

Man you kill it when you are teaching whoooooooo God Bless MAN

[@malcolmsmith6380]

I remember you said in one of your videos you had aspergers you also said you ran a company with employees and you where employed got call out jobs and regular clients. I'm considering whether I should disclose my aspergers openly or if that would just hurt my chances of finding employment even more as employers may see a grater legal risk as well as potential social difficulty's in the work place and self employed work is much harder without a good network witch is harder to form and keep weather I disclose or not. What did you do? I'm also high functioning and degree educated.

[@xenowya5910]

i didnt watch alot of videos to be honest but the ones i watched were very very good good job to be honest and good job getting back on your feet after that tbh i respect what you did alot and what you do alot

[@YaserRafaelSokary]

Why no main channel upload?

[@machaah]

This is amazing Eli you have taught me many thing in education and also in life never knew that you are a professional in many ways I proud to be taught by a professional but in which way can I ask you a question

[@jermainemarshall6819]

what was your job in the Army?

[@da5603]

eli, thank you for sharing your knowledge you truly explain it in a way no book or other training companies can. Also totally agree on this profession is a ball buster lol..

[@wsamad100]

Eli, Keep it up man. Your videos are helping me ALOT!!!!!! Thank You!!!

[@practicerepeat5927]

he makes good content that are educational

[@drewerving7428]

No he doesn't

[@abdullahiahmed7077]

Eli am happen with this video so how do i download it because i want to watch it offline

[@yohannnadar5800]

Love u man. Don't stop ever

[@K4MR4N1UK123]

Hi does Freelance IT guy means by either a web developer or network engineer only? Do we have freelance programmers and DBA's?

[@grcvgcvcbh6999]

Php/laravel vs asp.net/c# which one has better job opportunity and better salary

[@yowalker5956]

you are so great! love ya man

[@Holcombi]

Why did you transition from red shirts to orange shirts?

[@sleepycobra9152]

I wish to meet you one day .You are super cool instructor and person.

[@guardianangel5254]

I love your vid's very helpful to grow my IT company. I am really posting just to say Thank you for your service! Home of the free because of the brave" regardless of your role serving.

[@asmaaeltahir7690]

Ya your right can you teach

[@christineanani919]

What can i do to good at computer science??? Please

[@almaktab2]

A dynamic teacher

[@dgb5820]

Wow this was great to hear about your background BTW nice background shot looks like you are well set up Thank you from Melbourne Australia

[@JasonCtutorials]

spoken like a genius!

[@nituctgbd516]

hello sir, how are you? i really fan of you and i see your video . you described all things perfectly and give me suggestion how can i upgrade me in networking field.

[@neelamrawat9827]

Eli,like the way you explains concept :)

[@mohammedsohail707]

Eli really helpful videos- Salute

[@reachforthesky1576]

Brilliant stuff !!

[@lolingtroll422]

it's my deep believe that you are also an Anonymus activist. so keep up the great work ;) ...even the smiley logo suggests that: "Smiling Anonymus"

[@RayCrawfordIV]

Love the video, Eli! Laughing... :) Found it because I'm actually using your channel as a "further information" resource at the end of my enterprise presentations. Thanks for all the great resources!

[@russelrenznerosa8969]

I knew it, so that is why I felt that there something above average about you... So hard to believe that your just "a YAHOO with a screw driver" because you look so though for an average tech guy, you worked for the ARMY..... But anyway, I'm glad you did KZbin because it meant a lot to us.... Thank you for the information and hope you will teach us more in the future.... Thumbs up!!!

[@alwayjohnrallos7359]

eli's life sucks, and sad, i am sorry for that. but ty for your dedication to help and advice other people.salute to this man

[@jdmac44]

I thought you had been in the military when you used "foxtrot" as a hypothetical password in another video. :) Semper Fi

[@alwaysgrowing369]

Very Nice Videos too in this your channel!

[@mouliksingh1143]

learnt the most of techy things from you

[@ScrolltheNature]

Absolutely Agree...Honestly said..;)

[@Mcornish86]

keeping it real eli

[@steverhensley]

"Long story...short"...kills me. 20 year's in tech - as an employee and employer. A lot bit (understatement) too non·cha·lant. As in..it was "raining money (on ME!!!)" and I got mine now have a nice day and good luck thanks for all the hours to you and yours. Thankfully we'll not, soon, starve, as IT guys. but...DAMN the community you had...suppose that's why you're "on tour" now. Or not, all things considered. I have learned, eh, re-learned re-focused, on residual income!!!!! So thank you,sincerely, for that.

[@fatehbenabdelmoumen1913]

u r great eli

[@karthikamaravadi434]

hi eli,I follow your tutorials very often and i need your help in bypassing android phone lock.Can you help me in scripting.I really need help in bypassing android lock

[@RealityGutPunch]

You're a wise man Eli - and something I don't hear enough about in the industry is the level of responsibility. Nowadays EVERYTHING is dependent on solid, highly available infrastructure - and if it doesn't work, NO ONE works. It's a tremendous amount of pressure and stress. I've worked positions that my life and limb were in danger every second, and none of it even compares to the stress of being a large environment sysadmin.

[@Aperiderbones]

Ouch!

[@potatodroid2]

I envy your voice.

[@Bart_Depestele]

greets from Belgium ;)

[@feketetv]

no comments??? O.o

[@__KMFahimImran]

Man what happened to him he's changed a lot

[@redlady120]

About the entire vid: Hell! Ain't that the truth

[@viomangui5260]

I like your videos

[@worlds.reality]

how a man can be a geek if he don't want get his hands in the mud and willing to play around with the 'techy toys'

[@RealityGutPunch]

Mouadh Ben I don't think it's that he doesn't play with the techy toys. It's pretty clear Eli has lots of current knowledge and practical experience. Most of that you can get in a lab. His 'IT wisdom' comes from experience. Just because you don't want to be actively working as a systems admin; consultant or architect, doesn't mean you're not a geek.

[@jeffcojd]

What would you actually say you do here at KZbin, Eli?.......Name that movie?

[@GurukiranS]

You live in the United States and you are a citizen of the United States so you can literally do anything for a living like making videos on KZbin because your economy supports it. It doesn't happen so in most of the developing countries in Asia such as India whereas you are forced to have a desk job irrespective of how much ever you earn. So you are pretty lucky, living the life you want.

[@nicetry69420]

There's no reason they can't but it's probably not the same rate as America simply because of local area economy differences and it's just much much harder to build a content library in those necks of the world. It's definitely DOABLE, but nowhere near as doable as the US

[@Lalbuilding]

U r awesome dude ! Greets from india

[@adityapradeep9405]

Cool guy 😎

[@michaelschelnick]

Dude, you are my hero. You seem to enjoy what you are currently doing, it sounds like you make good money, and you can turn down work. Awesome.

[@GabREAL1983]

you can make that much money on youtube? i really didn't know...

[@hurolinci5986]

There is a lot ppl can learn from you about rl world.

[@timferguson1526]

I'm here to learn how to carry out effective sabotage on IT networks.

[@Usernametaken6700]

hhhhahhahha good.. professional!

[@crankMiHoffer]

plop

[@timanderson3332]

Gets paid by SAMS promoting their book lol... jk love your videos and thanks for serving our country

[@UNcommonSenseAUS]

More importantly... who gives a fack

[@bayraktarx1386]

So basically you do nothing what makes your advice a bit pointless.

[@nicetry69420]

That's your opinion. Thankfully for him, hundreds of thousands of other peoples' opinions differe from yours.

[@nicetry69420]

Lol. Okay you got me. 90,551 people EXCLUDING, one-time viewers who agree with the content AND excluding all potential agreers who aren't actually viewers of the content. But you got me so good bro. Heh, you're so smart. You seem really inept at trolling and commenting mindless drivel on the internet without anything to show for it, which is very ironic because Eli has, well, everything to show for it. >inb4 "lel he only has a youtube lawl insert appeal to authority fallacy because he doesn't own a business that logically entails his advice means nothing ayyy lmaooo me shitpost moar"

[@octobeastX]

yes he certainly seems the type of person who does nothing....0_o

[@bayraktarx1386]

only idiots like David Coleman take advice from somebody who has done nothing in his life...

[@nicetry69420]

GFDSD FSDFS Only idiots like you believe that Eli has done nothing. Just stop lol. 2 months later. You just needed that little kick of validation didn't you?

[@markanthony9432]

Hilarious...only someone who's been a professional tech understands what you're talking about...and you didn't even get into the, "...why don't the phones/printers/etc. work?"...when you didn't even touch them...lol.

[@pixels2u]

LOL i've worked in IT for 25 yrs and have never heard a "REAL" IT person say "I'm a geek."

[@stephenorr5646]

Pixilate U he’s not a geek

[@jamesp8087]

"real tech professional".... No. im sure maybe some people are willing to hire you, bit you are as " profrssional" as you try to make yourself seem. you know, a lot of people here dont have a lot of knowledge in the computer and networking field at a even a college level, which is why they watch your videos and love them. However, I gurentee im not the only one with actual experence that tried to watch a few of your videos (chosing server hardware being one of them) and though to ourselfs, "uhhh...He doesnt seem very experenced). A lot of my issue with your informitive videos is on HOW you present most information. it makes it misleading to people that are new to these things. at some points it angers me. for example, that chosing server hardware. Please, viewers, if you want tech information, goto someone with more experence. not me, not eli, but someone with REAL WORLD experence. I domt have much beond 3 years in college, yet i can still see the bullshitting he feeds you guys at points. sorry, triggerred. Eli, please, goto college, get your ccna, security+, VMware cert, etc. all of the popular and LEADING certs in these fields before you claim to be a expert on youtube without any solid work experence in the field. drunken rant done.

[@jerichojon]

sorry to ask but are you living on social welfare?

[@EliComputerGuyLive]

+jericho jon ???

[@binhthanh9924]

Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other